Children’s Rights and the Capability Approach: Challenges and Prospects

✍ Scribed by Daniel Stoecklin, Jean-Michel Bonvin (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Series: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research 8
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume addresses the conditions allowing the transformation of specific children’s rights into capabilities in settings as different as children’s parliaments, organized leisure activities, contexts of vulnerability, children in care. It addresses theoretical questions linked to children’s agency and reflexivity, education, the life cycle perspective, child participation, evolving capabilities and citizenship. The volume highlights important issues that have to be taken into account for the implementation of human rights and the development of peoples’ capabilities. The focus on children’s capabilities along a rights-based approach is an inspiring perspective that researchers and practitioners in the field of human rights would like to deepen.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Transforming Children’s Rights into Real Freedom: A Dialogue Between Children’s Rights and the Capability Approach from a Life Cycle Perspective....Pages 19-41
Observing Children’s Capabilities as Agency....Pages 43-65
From Evolving Capacities to Evolving Capabilities: Contextualizing Children’s Rights....Pages 67-84
Reconstructing Children’s Concepts: Some Theoretical Ideas and Empirical Findings on Education and the Good Life....Pages 85-107
Children’s Councils Implementation: A Path Toward Recognition?....Pages 109-130
Cross-Fertilizing Children’s Rights and the Capability Approach. The Example of the Right to Be Heard in Organized Leisure....Pages 131-152
The Theoretical Orthodoxy of Children’s and Youth Agency and Its Contradictions: Moving from Normative Thresholds to a Situated Assessment of Children’s and Youth Lives....Pages 153-173
Children’s Rights and the Capability Approach: Discussing Children’s Agency Against the Horizon of the Institutionalised Youth Land....Pages 175-193
The Participation of Children in Care in the Assessment Process....Pages 195-212
The UN Children’s Rights Convention and the Capabilities Approach – Family Duties and Children’s Rights in Tension....Pages 213-231
Children’s Rights Between Normative and Empirical Realms....Pages 233-252
Growing Up in Contexts of Vulnerability: The Challenges in Changing Paradigms and Practices for Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights in Brazil and Mexico....Pages 253-271
Back Matter....Pages 273-293

✦ Subjects

Quality of Life Research; Human Rights; Social Structure, Social Inequality