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Course literature for the course UB403F Children, Culture,
Globalization, second cycle 15 credits
Valid from the autumn semester 2016
Compulsory course literature
Anderson, T. (2002). The political economy of human rights. Journal of Australian Political
Economy, 50, 200-227. (28 p.)
Anker, R. (2001). Child labour and its elimination. In K. Lieten & B. White (Eds.), Child
labour policy options (pp. 1-11), Amsterdam: Aksant. (11 p.)
Beavis, C. (2015). Young people, online gaming culture, and education. In J. Wyn & H.
Cahill (Eds.), Handbook of children and youth studies (pp. 815-827). Singapore:
Springer. (Available e-brary) (13 p.)
Davis, J., & Elliott. S. (Eds.). (2014). Research in early childhood education for
sustainability: International perspectives and provocations (pp. 21-37, 208-224).
London: Routledge. (33 p.)
Ditton, S. (2015). Youth, consumption and creativity on Australia’s Gold Coast. In J. Wyn &
H. Cahill (Eds.), Handbook of children and youth studies (pp. 829-841). Singapore:
Springer. (Available e-brary) (13 p.)
Duffy, M. (2007). Doing the dirty work: Gender, race, and reproductive labor in historical
perspective. Gender & Society, 21, 313-336. doi:10.1177/0891243207300764 (24 p.)
Engdahl, I., & Ärlemalm-Hagsér, E. (2014). Education for sustainability in Swedish
preschools: Stepping forward or out-of-step? In J. Davis & S. Elliott (Eds.), Research in
early childhood education for sustainability:International perspectives and
provocations (pp. 208-224). London: Routledge. (17 p.)
Freire, P. (1968). Pedagogy of the oppressed (Chapter 2, pp. 71-86). New York: Continuum.
Retrieved from
http://www.ilearnincambodia.net/uploads/3/1/0/9/31096741/freireped.pdf (16 p.)
Gallagher, M. (2008). Foucault, power and participation. International Journal of Children’s
Rights, 16, 395-406. (12 p.)
Hansson, S. (2000). Children in film. In J. Mills & R. W. Mills (Eds.), Childhood studies: A
reader in perspectives of childhood (pp. 145-159). London: Routledge. (Available
online) (15 p.)
Harcourt, D., & Quennerstedt, A. (2014). Ethical guardrails when children participate in
research: Risk and practice in Sweden and Australia. SAGE Open, 4(3), 1-8.
doi:10.1177/2158244014543782 (8 p.)
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Hart, R. A. (1992). Children’s participation: From tokenism to citizenship. (Innocenti essays
4). Florence: UNICEF. (Available online) (39 p.)
Kjörholt, A. (2007). Childhood as a symbolic space: Searching for authentic voices in the era
of globalization. Children’s Geographies, 5(1-2), 29-42. (14 p.)
Markey, A. (2012). Coming of age and national character at home and abroad. In P. Kennon
& Ní Bhroin (Eds.), What do we tell the children? Critical essays on children’s
literature (pp. 113-130). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (18 p.)
Miller, A. (2014). Unsuited to age group: The scandals of children’s literature. College
Literature: A journal of critical literary studies, 41(2), 120-140. (41 p.)
Mohme, G. (2014). Samira doesn’t live here anymore: Perspectives on a transnational
generation. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 4(3), 118–125. doi:10.2478/njmr2014-0014 (8 p.)
Salazar Parrenas, R. (2008). Transnational fathering: Gendered conflicts, distant disciplining
and emotional gaps. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 34, 1057-1072.
doi:10.1080/13691830802230356 (16 p.)
Sen, A. (2003, October 28). The importance of basic education. The Guardian. Retrieved
from http://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/oct/28/schools.uk4 (6 p.)
Smith, K. (2015). Deconstructing discourses to rupture fairytales of the ‘ideal’ childhood. In J.
Wyn & H. Cahill (Eds.), Handbook of children and youth studies (pp. 21-33).
Singapore: Springer. (Available e-brary) (14 p.)
Steffen, W., Richardson, K., Rockström, J., Cornell, S. E., Fetzer, I., Bennett, E. M., et al.
(2015). Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet.
Science, 347, 736-747. Doi:10.1126/science.1259855 (12 p.)
Sterling, S. (2014). Separate tracks or real synergy? Achieving closer relationship between
Education and SD, post 2015. Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 8(2),
91-112. (22 p.)
Sutton-Smith, B. (2003). The festival of toys. In L-E. Berg, A. Nelson & K. Svensson (Eds.),
Toys in education and socio-cultural contexts: Toy research in the late twentieth
century: Part1 (pp. 7-19). Stockholm: Stockholm International Toy Research Centre.
(Available online) (13 p.)
Therborn, G. (1996). Child politics: Dimensions and perspectives. Childhood, 3, 29-44.
doi:10.1177/0907568296003001003 (16 p.)
Welch, B. F. (2016). The pervasive whiteness of children’s literature: Collective harms and
consumer obligations. Social Theory and Practice, 42(2), 367-388. (22 p.)
Wintersberger, H. (2005). Work, welfare and generational order: Towards a political economy
of childhood. In J. Qvortrup (Ed.), Studies in Modern Childhood: Society, agency,
culture (pp. 201-220). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (20 p.)
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UN Committee on the rights of the child (CRC). (2013). General comment no. 14 on Article
3. Geneva: UN. (Available online) (21 p.)
UNESCO. EFA Global monitoring report. (Optional annual report). (Available online) (50100 p.)
United Nations. (1989). The UN convention on the rights of the child. New York: United
Nations. (Available online) (15 p.)
Works of reference
Engdahl, I. (2016). Academic writing at BUV. Stockholm: Stockholm University, Department
of Child and Youth Studies. (Available online) (15 p.)
SOU 2016:19. Barnkonventionen blir svensk lag: Betänkande av Barnrättighetsutredningen
(Summary in English, pp. 51-64). Stockholm: Regeringskansliet. (Available online) (14
p.)
Swedish National Agency for Education. (2011).
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National curriculum for the preschool. (Available online)
National curriculum for the compulsory class, preschool class and recreation centre
2011. (Available online)
National curriculum for the upper secondary school. (Available online)
The Gothenburg recommendations on education for sustainable development. (2008).
(Available online) (64 p.)