Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Changing paradigms in childhood and using critical social theories to understand childhoods

Chapter 2: Constructions of childhood

Chapter 3: The changing nature of families in the 21st Century

Chapter 4: Social Class and Inequalities: deconstructing poverty and disadvantage

Chapter 5: Critical multiculturalism: policy and practice

Chapter 6: Gender and post-feminism?

Chapter 7: Sexuality: Children's sexual citizenship

Chapter 8: Indigeneity

Chapter 9: Refugees and Asylum seekers

Chapter 10: Languages, identities and bilingualism in childhood

Chapter 11: Revisiting the challenges of diversity and difference for childhoods

About the Author

Kerry Robinson is a professor in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University, Australia.

Dr. Criss Jones Díaz is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Western Sydney University, Australia.