Books in the Children's Well-Being: Indicators and Research series

This volume focuses on very young children¿s (aged 0-8) rights in a digital world. It gathers current research from around the globe that focuses on young children¿s rights as agental citizens to the provision of and participation in digital devices and content¿as well as their right to protection from harm. The UN Digital Rights Framework of 2014 addresses children¿s needs, agency and vulnerability to harm in today¿s digital world and implies roles and responsibilities for a variety of social actors including the state, families, schools, commercial entities, researchers and children themselves. This volume presents a broad range of research, including chapters on parental supervision and control, the changing forms of play, early childhood education, media and cultural studies, law, design, health, special-needs education, and engineering. Implicit within this book is the acknowledgement that children of various ages, abilities, socioeconomic and geographic backgrounds should haveequal access to, and positive / non-harmful experiences with, new digital technologies and content¿as well as adult support and expertise that enhances these experiences.This passionate book celebrates the diversity of young children¿s activities in the digital world. It interrogates these through four intersecting lenses: their rights, play experiences, contextualised design, and best practice. Balancing children¿s eager engagement with digital content alongside adult responsibilities for education, privacy and protection, the volume provides a fitting showcase for work of global relevance.Professor Lelia GreenProfessor of CommunicationsEdith Cowan UniversityPerth, Western AustraliaThis compelling text provides a critical resource to inform our understanding of the intersection of the digital world and children¿s rights.Ilene R. Berson, Ph.D.Professor of Early Childhood EducationAffiliate Faculty, Learning Design & TechnologyArea Coordinator, Early ChildhoodCoordinator, Early Childhood Ph.D. ProgramUniversity of South FloridaCollege of EducationA truly international collection that investigates young children¿s engagement with digital technologies. Identifying issues of public interest around digital practices, this highly readable book is a valuable resource for researchers, parents and policy makers. Professor Susan DanbyDirector, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child and,Faculty of EducationSchool of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education QUTKelvin Grove, Queensland

This book presents a range of innovative analytical frameworks that can be used to approach the complexities of children¿s understandings and experiences of well-being in a locally oriented, context-sensitive and multi-nationally comparative way. It addresses the challenges of undertaking research on children¿s understandings of well-being from a multi-national qualitative perspective. Chapters in the book present results that show how children from various places all over the world conceptualize and experience well-being as well as how this is linked local, regional and national social, political and cultural contexts.

This book examines infant and early childhood mental health and the importance of early emotional and social development for later developmental trajectories.

The book presented here describes an outstanding attempt, not only to include children's views but to partner with children to develop the concept of well-being and to study the phenomenon as the children understand it.

This book shows the different ways in which migration matters in the context of global and local childhood and youth.

This volume addresses the conditions allowing the transformation of specific children's rights into capabilities in settings as different as children's parliaments, organized leisure activities, contexts of vulnerability, children in care.

The book presented here describes an outstanding attempt, not only to include children's views but to partner with children to develop the concept of well-being and to study the phenomenon as the children understand it.

This book presents new findings that deal with different facets of the well-being of children and their relevance to the proper treatment of children. The well-being of children is considered against the background of a wide variety of legal, political, medical, educational and familial perspectives.

The study sought to examine the current challenges faced by the Children's Court and to identify desirable and feasible directions for reform in each State and Territory.