Includes bibliographical references (pages [184]-201) and index.
Part I: Constructions and Positionality of Childhood: Multiplicity, Difference and Enterprise -- The Multiplicity and Positionality of Childhood -- Childhoods of Difference and Diversity -- Children as a Resource: The Rise of the Entrepreneurial Child -- Part II: The Ecologies of Childhood in the 21stCentury -- Transient Childhoods: The Politics of Change and Uncertainty -- Children's Physical, Social/Critical and Virtual Spaces -- Children's Happiness and Well-being -- Part III: The Right to Childhoods -- Current Frameworks of Children's Rights -- Young People's Voice and Participation -- The Right to Childhoods -- Part IV: Knowledge for Rights and Democracy -- Knowledge and Morality in an Era of Radical Doubt -- Civic and Corporate Education -- Communities of Practice and Learning