This book investigates the position of young children¿s self-determination within a range of
social contexts such as education social care mass-media health politics law and the
family. It brings to the fore the voices of the children in the present with their interests
agendas and rights. Based on original primary research the chapters tackle hegemonic
discourses on children¿s self-determination as well as current policies and practices. They
address a broad range of topics from the planning of role-play to national policies from the
use of digital technologies for pedagogy to children¿s health and well-being and from
democratic practices in the classroom to the preservation of traditional family values. The
book presents case studies to unravel how childhood and young children¿s self-determination are
constructed at the intersection with intergenerational relationships. Coming from different
disciplines and using a diverse range of methodological traditions the contributions in the
volume eventually converge to generate a rich complex and multi-layered analysis of
contemporary cultures of childhood and young children¿s rights.
