World Yearbook of Education 2009

The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization examines the concept of `childhood¿ and `childhood development and learning¿ from educational, sociological and psychological perspectives. This contributed volume seeks to explicitly provide a series of windows into the construction of childhood around the world, as a means to conceptualizing and more sharply defining the emerging field of global and local childhood studies.