Voice, Choice, and Action
Voice, Choice, and Action Compiling decades of fieldwork, two acclaimed scholars offer strategies for strengthening democracies by nurturing the voices of children and encouraging public awareness of…
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Voice, Choice, and Action
Compiling decades of fieldwork, two acclaimed scholars offer strategies for strengthening democracies by nurturing the voices of children and encouraging public awareness of their role as citizens.Voice, Choice, and Action is the fruit of the extraordinary personal and professional partnership of a psychiatrist and a neurobiologist whose research and social activism have informed each other for the last thirty years. In Romania they witnessed the consequences of infant institutionalization under the Ceaușescu regime. Inspired by the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Felton Earls and Mary Carlson embarked on a series of international studies that would recognize the voice of children.
In Chicago Earls explored the origins of In Brazil they encountered street children who had banded together to advocate effectively for themselves.