Efnisyfirlit

• Cover Page
• Unequal childhoods
• Contesting early childhood series
• Series editors: Gunilla Dahlberg and Peter Moss
• Titles in the series
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Illustrations
• Figure
• Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Global inequalities
• Summary
• What causes inequality?
• What is globalization?
• The economic development arguments
• Globalization—another picture
• Chapter 2: Interpreting poverty
• Summary
• Poverty and inequality
• Measuring poverty and inequality in the North
• Targeted early childhood interventions to address child poverty in the USA and the UK
• Measuring poverty and inequality in the South
• Chronic poverty: the poorest of the poor
• Applying targeted models from the North to the South to reduce child poverty
• Targeted early interventions as a solution to poverty: some views from the South
• Chapter 3: Understanding early childhood
• Summary
• The science of child development
• Early experience: is it long-lasting?
• Ideas about parenting
• The ideal family
• The ideal child
• The ideal surroundings
• Developmentally appropriate practice
• Another vision of childhood
• Chapter 4: Lending a helping hand
• Summary
• What the critics say
• Cycles of aid
• The big-time aid agencies
• Do INGOs work?
• How governments give aid
• A helping hand?
• Chapter 5: Kazakhstan
• Summary
• Background
• Early childhood services
• Government responses to the provision of preschool education
• Parents’ and preschool teachers’ views of preschool services
• The role of NGOs and INGOs in Kazakhstan
• Conclusion
• Chapter 6: Swaziland
• Summary
• Introduction: the governance of Swaziland
• HIV/AIDS in Swaziland
• Childhood in Swaziland
• Early education and childcare in Swaziland
• The role of NGOs and INGOs in Swaziland
• Conclusion
• Chapter 7: India
• Summary
• Introduction
• Beginning–the trap of ‘backwardness’
• Learning
• Realization
• Investigations on the impact of family structures’
• The hostile education system
• The incursions of modernity
• Conclusion
• Chapter 8: Childhood and social inequality in Brazil
• Summary
• A brief state of the art
• Social inequality in Brazil
• Children under 6 years old
• Early childhood care and education
• Overcoming inequality
• Conclusion
• Chapter 9: The ethics of intervention
• Summary
• Introduction
• Understanding the arguments
• The power of consumers
• Giving
• Early childhood colleagues and collaborators
• What kind of early childhood projects?
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Preface
• 1: Global inequalities
• 2: Interpreting poverty
• 3: Understanding early childhood
• 4: Lending a helping hand
• 5: Kazakhstan
• 6: Swaziland
• 7: India
• 8: Childhood and social inequality in Brazil
• 9: The ethics of intervention
• Bibliography