This book examines the notion of children having full citizenship. It does so historically,
through intellectual discourse, beliefs, and moral and ideological positions on children. It …

The social contract tradition has been critiqued for harboring 'domination contracts' that
exclude women, people of color, people with disabilities, and others from political life. In this …

Debates about children's rights not only concern those things that children have a right to
have and to do but also our broader social and political community, and the moral and …

L'utilitarismo ha una lunga tradizione che abbraccia ormai tre secoli1: dal Settecento, con
godwin e Bentham, all'utilitarismo classico ottocentesco di John Stuart Mill, edgworth e …

The purpose of this non-experimental, correlational quantitative research study was to
examine the relationship between student achievement and spiritual intelligence while …

Almost everyone thinks it is wrong to abuse a child. But many parents and teachers believe it
is okay to spank children, rap their knuckles, slap their faces, pull their hair and yank their …

The child of Western philosophy is conceptualized in a two-fold manner: first, in the work of
philosophers ranging from Plato to Rawls, the child is defined through a negation of the …

Philosophers in the Western tradition have, as a rule, not devoted systematic attention to
children. However, a recent book, The Philosopher's Child: Critical Essays in the Western …

It is undeniable that schools and classrooms must function according to some conception of
authority, but contemporary educational theory often overlooks this concept. This …