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Peer reviewedSmith, Roger – Children & Society, 2000
Considers homework as an issue in the effort to define children's role as active participants in their lives. Notes the tension created as children attempt to find a place for themselves in their families and schools, the debates about children's rights, and the prescriptive approach of public policy toward homework. (JPB)
Descriptors: Child Role, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Rights, Family Life
Peer reviewedSmith, Roger – Children & Society, 2000
Critically reviews the question of childhood in the context of simultaneous globalization and atomization of social life. Discusses childhood in relation to children as consumers, children as interpreters, and children as actors. Suggests that these ideas help explain some of the tensions and disruptions that characterize the lives of some…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Role, Children, Public Policy
