New Book: Justice, Education and the Politics of CHildhood

Finally, a new volume on political philosophy and children that I co-edited is out with Springer. It is loosley based on a workshop I co-convened in Manchester. To be honest, my co-editors did most of the work for this book to happen. As the title suggests the chapters in this book are engaged with the moral, legal and political status of children and childhood, most of them by examining a concrete problem or question in education or politics. This is the table of contents:

Part I The Ethics of Childhood: Autonomy, Well-Being and Paternalism

• Constructing Children’s Rights

Colin Macleod (University of Victoria)

• Future-Oriented Paternalism and the Intrinsic Goods of Childhood

Alexander Bagattini (University of Düsseldorf)

• Who gets to decide? Children’s competence, parental authority, and informed consent

Allyn Fives (UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre)

• Capacity, Consistency and the Young

Nicholas Munn (University of Waikato)

• Eating Disorders in Minors and the Role of the Media. An Ethical Investigation

Christoph Schickhardt (University of Heidelberg)

Part II Justice for Children

• Equality of what for children

Lars Lindblom (Umeå University)

• Social Policy and Justice for Children

Gottfried Schweiger (University of Salzburg)/ Gunter Graf (University of Salzburg)

• The Politics of the Level Playing Field. Equality of Opportunity and Educational Justice

Johannes Drerup (University of Münster)

• Child psychological abuse, public health and social justice: the Cinderella Law debate

Mar Cabezas (University of Salzburg)

• Epistemic injustice and children’s well-being

Christina Schües (University of Lübeck)

Part III The Politics of Childhood

• Cultural Minorities and the Lives of Children

Josephine Nielsen (Queen’s University)

• Civic Education: Political or Comprehensive?

Elizabeth Edenberg (Vanderbilt University)

• “I can’t tell you exactly who I am …”: The creation of childhood and adulthood in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story The curious case of Benjamin Button

Nicole Balzer (University of Münster)

• Education for Autonomy in the Context of Consumer Culture

Philip Knobloch (Ruhr University Bochum)

•  “My Place”? Catholic Social Teaching and the Politics of Geborgenheit

Clemens Sedmak (King’s College London/ University of Salzburg)

Here is the link to Springer: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319273877

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