Download or read book The Place of Work in African Childhoods written by Bourdillon, Michael and published by CODESRIA. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how work enters and affects the lives of children in Africa, taking for granted neither the traditional values surrounding children’s work, nor the international standards against it. Many African societies nurture their children on the ingrained notion that children must work as part of their process of growing up. Children participate in their families and communities through the work they do in the house and in whatever else their families do. Such views are, however, antithetical to the dominant views in Europe and North America which see childhood as a time of freedom from responsibility and economic activity. These views have become so popular with the elites in other countries to the extent that they now drive international campaigns against ‘child labour’, and have been incorporated into what are now considered universal international standards and conventions. This book was conceived within the framework of the CODESRIA tradition of taking African perspectives seriously and not allowing social research in Africa to become subservient to values from outside. African scholars remain keenly aware of the need not to isolate themselves from developments in the wider world, which could lead to stagnation. This book, through empirical observation of the lives of African children, the work they do, its place in their lives, and what the children say about it, proposes new perspectives towards a new understanding of this complex stage of human development. Work is not simply about the right to income: work provides identity and status in society, and participation in the community. People relate to one another through work. Those who do not work are often without status and are at the periphery of society. One of the major ways in which this book differs from most of the available literature is in the understanding it brings to the problem of ‘child labour’. There are economic reasons why children may need an income of their own. There is the demographic fact that the proportion of children to adults in low-income countries is nearly double that in high-income societies. This book attempts to demonstrate that work is both necessary and beneficial in terms of a child’s development to become a full, responsible, and respectable member of society.
Download or read book Environment and Urbanization written by International Institute for Environment & Development and published by IIED. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Fourth International Home Relief Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Progreso de la Instrucci n P blica en Los Estados Unidos de Am rica written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children and the City written by Kaj Noschis and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les enfants et la ville: tel était le thème du 2ème Colloque Architecture & Comportement organisé au Monte Verità.Plusieurs participants au colloque ont été sensibles au Genius Loci de la colline et le lieu a sans doute eu un rôle dans le succès du Colloque et de son atmosphère.A une certaine distance de la vie urbaine, il a paru pertinent de remettre en question les perspectives sur la recherche et sur l'approche actuelle de l'enfant dans la ville.Les intervenants ont clairement laissé entendre que des changements importants pourraient avoir lieu en ville si les enfants avaient leur place comme acteurs structurants de la vie urbaine.Mais cela requerrait une logique de priorités nouvelle lorsqu'il est question de concevoir des environnements urbains.Le Colloque a également eu une connexion directe en ville avec l'ouverture le premier soir d'une exposition à Locarno.Des enfants habitant dans un quartier construit récemment avaient fabriqué un modèle réduit de cette partie de Locarno pour exprimer leurs voeux d'améliorations des aménagements.Le travail fait avec des enfants de 8 à 10 ans de deux classes de l'école locale sous la responsabilité d'Adolfo Tomasini, a été inspiré par un processus semblable engagé auparavant à Kitee, une petite ville en Finlande, par des écoliers supervisés par Liisa Horelli. L'exposition montrait les maquettes suisses et finlandaises et d'autres documents sur le travail des enfants. En Finlande cette implication des enfants a déjà eu un impact pratique sur la ville.Le Colloque est devenu le point de départ d'un projet international impliquant les enfants en tant que planificateurs urbains, étant donné que l'exposition se déplace maintenant dans d'autres pays européens et implique d'autres enfants dans ces pays...(Presentazione colloquio).
Download or read book A First French Reading Book Containing Fables Anecdotes Inventions Discoveries Natural History French History with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary written by William Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book Nouvelle Collection des M moires Pour Servir L Histoire de France Depuis le XIIIe Si cle Jusqu la Fin du XVIIIe written by J. Fr. Michaud and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
Download or read book Negotiating the Livelihoods of Children and Youth in Africa s Urban Spaces written by M. F. C. Bourdillon and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a collection of essays that draw attention to urban environments, such as high unemployment, inadequate housing, poor services, and often extreme poverty, in which children and youth have to live and survive. Looks at poor to middle-class communities in African cities (in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe), and illustrates how young people find ways not only of surviving, but also of enjoying themselves.
Download or read book The Municipal Review of Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghent Planning Congress 1913 written by William Whyte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ghent congress on town planning was the first genuinely international conference to address all aspects of civic life and design. Attended by representatives of 22 governments and 150 cities, as well as by hundreds of architects, planners, politicians, and scientists, it marked the culmination of a series of events which helped to form the world of town planning at the start of the twentieth century. Ghent illustrates three key themes for the history of town planning. First, the transactions of the congress include papers from some of the most significant theorists and practitioners of the period, such as Patrick Abercrombie, Augustin Rey, Raymond Unwin, and Joseph Stübben. Secondly, the congress as a whole reflects just how global the business of town planning had become by 1913: papers and exhibits included studies of colonial projects as well as European designs. The delegates themselves provide wonderful evidence of a transnational process at work. Finally, the text brilliantly illuminates the way in which town planning was critically linked to other reformist movements of the era. The whole event, like the International Union of Cities that it spawned, was the product of the peace movement. Even as war draw nearer, the International Union was being spoken of as a future world government. Significantly, one of the organisers of the event – Henri La Fontaine - won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913. The Premier Congrès international et exposition comparée des villes is a major publication, but it is one that is now almost impossible to obtain. This republication, a century after this seminal event, will be considerable interest not only to those who work on town-planning, but also transnational historians and writers on the peace movement more generally.
Download or read book Sociologie de la Chine et sociologie chinoise written by and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journals written by Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Province of Quebec for the Year written by Québec (Province). Department of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Image and Identity in the Ancient Near East Papers in memoriam Pierre Amiet written by Laura Battini and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, consisting of two parts, gathers papers in honour of Pierre Amiet. Part 1 analyses the body as a biological entity as well as a social, sexual and cultural identity (persona). Part 2 includes articles closely related to the specialisms of Amiet: glyptics, state formation, and the organisation of craftsmen and statuary.
Download or read book Population Africaine Au 21 Siecle written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L enfant et la ville written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Par ailleurs, il a récemment travaillé sur les enjeux éthiques d'une telle participation lors d'un stage postdoctoral au Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal. Actuellement, Juan Torres collabore à un projet de publication sur la relation enfant-ville et monte plusieurs projets de recherche au sujet de l'influence du milieu sur la mobilité et sur la viabilité de différentes fo [...] L'Institut est une organisation bénévole nationale qui se consacre à la promotion du bien-être des familles canadiennes par le biais de la recherche, de publications, de l'éducation du public et de la défense des intérêts des familles. [...] La nécessité de demeurer à proximité du lieu de travail (rappelons qu'à l'époque, la marche était le principal mode de transport en ville) et l'énorme demande de logement abordable encourageaient la création de secteurs très densément peuplés et souvent mal équipés, avec peu d'espaces verts, des services insuffisants, des problèmes d'hygiène, etc.[20] Bien que l'espérance de vie des enfants ait au [...] Une attention particulière doit être accordée au processus participatif d'aménagement des villes, des villages et des quartiers afin d'améliorer les conditions de vie des enfants et des jeunes et de tirer profit de leur point de vue et de leur créativité ».[30]3 Par ailleurs, lors de ce sommet, le bien-être des enfants a été considéré en tant qu'indicateur ultime d'un habitat sain, d'une société d [...] Les différentes formes de participation des enfants en aménagement Le mouvement international en faveur de la reconnaissance des droits des enfants a nourri un courant de pensée qui existait déjà vers la fin des années 1960 et qui prône pour la participation des enfants en aménagement.[33, 34] Depuis quatre décennies, plusieurs projets menés dans la foulée de ce courant, entre autres en Finlande.
