Justice, Education, and the Politics of Childhood
Justice, Education, and the Politics of Childhood
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正义、教育和童年政治
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-27389-1
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发表时间:
2016
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G. (Hrsg.)
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作者:
Drerup;Schickhardt;Schweiger;G. (Hrsg.)
Questions concerning the moral, legal, and political status of children and childhood are widely debated in a variety of academic disciplines, ranging from moral and political philosophy to jurisprudence, educational science, and medical ethics. This volume is intended to contribute to these ongoing interdisciplinary controversies by developing new perspectives on the diverse theoretical and practical challenges posed by political and ethical issues related to children and childhood. It comprises essays by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds on diverse theoretical problems and public policy controversies that bear upon different facets of the life of children in contemporary liberal democracies. The book is divided into three major parts that are each organized around a common general theme. The first part (“Children and Childhood: Autonomy, Well-Being, and Paternalism”) focuses on key concepts of an ethics of childhood. Part two (“Justice for Children”) contains chapters that are concerned with the topics of justice for children and justice during childhood. The third part (“The Politics of Childhood”) deals with issues that concern the importance of childhood as a historically contingent political category and its relevance for the justification and practical design of political processes and institutions that affect children and families. The first part of the volume comprises essays on ethical questions concerning children and childhood. Among the most widely discussed systematic problems in the contemporary debate on the ethics of children and childhood are the following three topics. The first topic concerns the status of children as developing and not yet fully autonomous agents and rights holders. While it is widely acknowledged today in the philosophy and sociology of childhood that children are not to be regarded as mere passive and entirely non-autonomous agents, the specific theoretical, normative, and institutional implications of this insight still remain disputed. To what extent and in which domains can children be regarded as at least locally autonomous agents? What are the specific differences between the agency of children and the agency of adults? How can the fact that children are developing and not yet fully autonomous agents be reconciled with their status as rights holders?