KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

MA INTERNATIONAL CHILD STUDIES

INTRODUCTORY READING LIST 2017-2018

NB: this is a multi-disciplinary programme with a wide ranging curriculum, so we don’t suggest you buy any/many books, especially in advance: King’s has a large library and free inter-library loans are available for any book not held at King’s.

If you aren’t able to access much material before the start of the course, don’t worry but if you do nothing else, please go to

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CRC.aspx, download and save the text of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Then click on ‘human rights by country’ in the tabs towards the top and enter your home country/a country in which you are particularly interested. Find the Concluding Observations for that country. You might like to take a look at a different country too for comparison.

International Children’s Rights

Archard, D. (2014. 3rd ed.) Children - Rights and Childhood Routledge.

Butler, C. (ed)(2012)Child rights - the movement, international law, and oppositionWest Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press (Baltimore, Md.: Project MUSE).

Dillon, J. (2010)International Children's Rights, Carolina Academic Press.

Freeman, M. (1992) The Moral Status of Children: essays on the rights of children Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

Freeman, M.(2012)Law and Childhood Studies: Current legal issues volume 14Oxford University Press.

Hanson, K. And Nieuwenhuys, O. (eds) (2013) Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development. Living Rights, Social Justice, Translations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Liebel, M. (2012) Children's Rights from Below: Cross-Cultural Perspectives; Palgrave Macmillan.

O'Neill, T. &Zinga, D. (Eds). (2008).Children's Rights: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Participation and Protection. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Ontario.

Ronen, Y. and Greenbaum, C. (eds.)(2008), The case for the child: Towards a new agenda Antwerp, Belgium: Intersentia.

Child Rights International Network: https://www.crin.org/.

UNICEF State of the World’s Children reports: http://www.unicef.org/sowc/.

http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/UNICEF_SOWC_2016.pdf

Global Childhoods

Aitken, S. (ed.) (2009) GlobalChildhoods: Globalization, Development and Young People. Routledge.

Boyden, J. and Bourdillon, M. (eds) (2012), Childhood Poverty: Multidisciplinary Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke.

Fleer, M., Hedegaard, M., Tudge, J., (eds) 2009, Constructing childhood: Global-local policies and practices, World Yearbook of Education 2009, Routledge, New York US.

Heymann, J. and McNeill, K. (2013) New Findings on Child Policy Worldwide http://www.crin.org/docs/Childrens%20Chances%20Report%20-%20English.pdf.

Holt, L. (2011) Geographies of children, youth and families: an international perspective Abingdon, New York Routledge.

Penn, H. (2005) (ed.) Unequal Childhoods: Young Children's Lives in Poor Countries. Routledge.

Wells, K. (2009) Childhood in a global perspective. Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA Polity Press.

Young Lives research programme: http://www.younglives.org.uk/.

Child Health & Development

Chu, J. U. (2014) When boys become boys: development, relationships, and masculinity New York: New York University Press.

Cowie, H. (2012) From Birth to Sixteen: children's health, social, emotional and linguistic development London: Routledge.

DeBell, D. (ed.) (2015, 2nd edn.) Public Health for Children, CPC Press.

Neven, R. S. (1997) Emotional milestones from birth to adulthood: a psychodynamic approach Bristol, Pa, London J. Kingsley Publishers.

Roberts H (2012) What works in reducing inequalities in child health? Bristol: Policy Press.

Rogoff, B. (2003) The cultural nature of human development New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Slater, A. & Quinn, P. (2012) Developmental psychology: revisiting the classic studies London: Sage.

Smidt, S. (2006) The developing child in the 21st century: a global perspective on child development London/New York: Routledge.

Sustainable Development Goals https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300

International Child Protection

Ben-Arieh, A., Casas, F., Frønes, I. and Korbin, J. (Eds) (2014) Handbook of Child Well-Being: Theories, Methods and Policies in Global Perspective, Springer.

Bentovim, A. & Gray, J. (2015) Eradicating Child Maltreatment Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Intervention Across Services London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Bourdillon, M. and Myers, W. (2012) Child Protection in Development. Routledge.

Gilbert, N.,Parton, N.,Skivenes, M. (2011) Child protection systems: international trends and orientations. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ronen, Y. and Greenbaum, C. (eds.)(2008), The case for the child: Towards a new agenda Antwerp, Belgium: Intersentia.

Sheehan, R., Rhoades, H. and Stanley, N. (2012) Vulnerable Children and the Law: International Evidence for Improving Child Welfare, Child Protection and Children's Rights. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Schwartz, L. L. & Isser, N. K. (2011, 2nd ed)) Endangered Children: Homicide & Other Crimes. CRC Press

International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect http://www.ispcan.org/.

Sociology of Childhood

Corsaro, W. A. (2005, 2nd ed.). The sociology of childhood. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

James, A. and Prout, A. (2014, 3rd ed.) Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Childhood. Abingdon: Routledge.

Jenks, C. (2005, 2nd ed.) Childhood London; New York: Routledge.

Putnam, R. D. (2015) Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis New York: Simon & Schuster.

Qvortrup, J. (2005) Studies in Modern Childhood: Society, agency, culture Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave.

Academic writing skills

Bailey, S. (2015, 4th edn.) Academic writing: a handbook for international students. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Becker, H. (1986) Writing for social scientists. Chicago University Press.

Redman, P. and Maples, W. (2011, 4th ed.) Good essay writing: a social sciences guide. London: Sage.


Wallace, M. and Wray, A. (2011, 2nd ed.) Critical reading and writing for postgraduates. London: Sage.

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