World Yearbook of Education 2009 : Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization: Policies and Practices at Global and Local Levels

The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization examines the concept of childhood and childhood development and learning from educational, sociological and psychological perspectives. This contributed volume seeks to explicitly provide a series of windows into the construction of childhood around the world, as a means to conceptualizing and more sharply defining the emerging field of global and local childhood studies.