1st Edition
Children, Structure and Agency Realities Across the Developing World
Introduction 1. Tradition and Child-Centred Approaches 2. Country Specific: Development Indicators, Child Conditions and Research Areas 3. Methodology 4. Leisure and Daily Life 5. School and Education 6. Child Labour 7. Ideas about Development: Problems and Priorities 8. Conclusions: Structural Constraints and Agency
Biography
G.K. (Kristoffel) Lieten (Belgium, 1946) studied in Antwerp, The Hague, Reading and New Delhi, where he obtained degrees in linguistics, political science and history respectively. He has worked extensively on political developments in South Asia and on issues related to development sociology. Lieten has been on the teaching staff at Department of Anthropology and Non-Western Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and presently holds the chair of Child Labour studies at the University of Amsterdam and at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He is the director of the IREWOC Foundation (Institute for Research on Working Children) and in that capacity Dr. Lieten has initiated several research projects on child labour and child agency in various countries across the globe.
