Articles from the Alliance for Childhood Brussels Conference (Oct. 11-14, 2000)
Children create our future with their gifts and talents, yet what is the significance of childhood for us today? Is childhood vanishing under the weight of poverty, commercialism, stress, and social breakdown? With such threats to childhood, how can we create a healthy world for bringing up children?
The Alliance for Childhood is a forum where individuals and organisations can work together out of respect for childhood, in a world-wide effort to improve children's lives.
The Alliance has convened this Brussels conference to explore the following questions:
What is childhood for today's children?This lively collection of articles by Conference presenters offers stimulating insight for dialogue about how we can give due respect to children. Here are Cathy Nutbrown's Twenty Questions for Childhoods in the 21st Century, a shortened UN Charter of Children's Rights and Childhood by the Alliance. There are useful references, contacts and resources for networking.
Contributors include:
Dr. Cathy Nutbrown, University of SheffieldThis book is part of the Hawthorn Press "Early Years" series.