Vulnerable Children

Abstract

Foreword by James Garbarino.- Preface.- Chapter 1. Vulnerable Childhood in a Global Context: Embracing the Sacred Trust.- Section I: Cultural Empowerment and Self Determination.- Chapter 2. Dilemmas of Rights-based Approaches to Child Well-being in an African Cultural Context.- Chapter 3. Undefended Children in the Classroom? Looking at Textbooks, Cultural.- Difference and Other Aspects of Indigenous Education in Mexico.- Chapter 4. The Nyae Nyae Village Schools Project: Indigenous Community-Based Education in Namibia.- Section II: Education and Schooling Experiences.- Chapter 5. Poverty and Minority Children's Education in the U.S.: Case Study of a Sudanese Refugee Family.- Chapter 6. Boodja Marr Karl: A Whole-Community Approach to Aboriginal Education: The Development of a Cultural Framework for Aboriginal Participation in Education and Schooling.- Chapter 7. Self-Perception of Relations with Parents, Attitude Toward School, and Delinquency among African American, Caribbean American, and Ghanaian Adolescents.- Section III: Health and Well Being.- Chapter 8. Child Labor: A Child Development Perspective.- Chapter 9. Vulnerable Children?: The Heterogeneity of Young Children's Experiences.- in Kenya and Brazil.- Chapter 10. Child Labor and Child Well-being of Children: The Case of Children in Marine Fishing in Ghana.- Chapter 11. A World Tour of Selected Intervention Programs for Children of a Parent with a Psychiatric Illness.- Section IV: Child Security.- Orphans and Fosterage.- Chapter 12. Sudanese Refugee Youth: Resilience among Undefended Children.- Chapter 13. When All the Children are Left Behind: An Exploration of Fosterage of Owambo Orphans in Namibia, Africa.- Chapter 14. Malawi Orphans: The Role of Transnational Humanitarian Organizations.- Section V: Children's Rights.- Chapter 15. Indigenous Children's Rights and Well-being: Perspectives from Central and Southern Africa.- Chapter 16. Traditional Religion, Social Structure, and Children's Rights in Ghana: the Making of a Trokosi Child.- Chapter 17. Defending and Nurturing Childhood in Media, Public, and Policy Discourses: Lessons from UNICEF's Juanita Communication Initiative in Colombia.- Chapter 18. Epilogue.