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Question: Is an approach based on rights and child participation the optimum way of improving children’s lives?

TMA07 – Option 2

Answer: The context of this essay is primarily set in relation to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 (UNCRC) and challenges the instrument’s effectiveness in providing improvement in the quality of children’s lives around the world. In this essay I am going to argue that a rights-based approach enforcing child participation has validity. I will also highlight where this app......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Is gender about what children ‘are’ or what they ‘do’?

Answer: Most people are born with an apparent physiology which identifies their biological ‘sex’, and positions them within society as being either male or female. However, if there are children who don’t feel comfortable with their biologically assumed gender, are they male or female or is it more about how society treats them, and cares for them that allows the child to have some kind of choice? ......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Is it morally wrong to allow young people to fight in armed conflict?

TMA 07 submitted 2010 Mark 85%

Answer: The question of morality is somewhat ambiguous. Whilst generally morals are accepted as being concerned “with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong:” the Greek philosopher Sextus Empiricus proposed that moral values are strictly human inventions, a position called moral relativism. Within this theory individuals create their own moral standards, “influenced by cultural fa......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Discuss the different representations of children and childhood reflected in children’s literature.

TMA 06

Answer: The phrase children’s literature is often associated with “writing that is deemed of a high quality.” John Rowe Townsend (1990) distinguishes between children’s literature and children’s reading matter. His own discussion of the latter such as popular series books he equates with “ephemeral matter produced to catch a market” (Kehily 2007 p136) For the purpose of this essay I shall no......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: ‘Children’s cultural worlds are divided by gender’. Discuss.

Answer: I believe that in several ways children’s cultural worlds are divided by gender but in other ways they are not. The dictionary defines gender as “sexual characteristics or category”, which implies that it is determined by genetics. Theorist Judith Butler (Book 1, Page 203) tells us that “human conduct and human knowledge about the world are so enmeshed in an understanding of what it means ......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Discuss contrasting discourses of childhood, identifying what childhood means to children within various locations.

TMA 1 - Submitted 2010 Mark 80%

Answer: Whilst ‘childhood’ is something we have all experienced it is nevertheless difficult to define, and dependant on factors such as the “criteria ….used to decide what is a child”. (Woodhead & Montgomery, 2007,p.4) Although “the internationally agreed definition of childhood is the period from birth to the age of eighteen as specified in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Assess the role that friendship plays in children’s worlds. (U212 TMA 05 – Option 2)

Answer: Since the 1980’s the study of childhood has become a serious subject of study. The New Sociology of Childhood states that children are affected by and also affect their society or culture during their childhoods. Put simply this means that a child’s every day routines and encounters alongside their daily interactions with peers, family and other adults, have a significant effect on their liv......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Evaluate the actions required to achieve health for children.

Answer: Children’s health or the lack of children’s health is a major issue for the world in its entirety. According to The World Health Organisation (WHO) the definition of health is that ‘Health is a state of complete, physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity’. (Book 4, Chapter 3, Page 99) This appears to be a very idealistic view of absolute h......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Is children’s development a universal staged process or a social and cultural process?

TMA01 – Option 1

Answer: Using the scientific and constructionist approaches of studying child development I am going to discuss how the development of children and the study of this development is influenced by the social and cultural processes that surround the child. Developmentalism is a discourse on childhood that describes a child’s development as being divided into clear, observable stages or periods of time. ......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: How much attention should be paid to the views of children themselves on the place of work and school in their lives? How might these views inform wider debates about child labour?

Answer: The place of school and work in children’s lives varies depending on where a child is raised in the world. It is contingent upon how a particular culture views work and school and the degree to which the education of children and their ability to take paid employment are regulated by law. This makes it a difficult task to apply a singular thought or judgement on whether a child should work and......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

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