Children Growing Up in Poverty and Their Ideas on What Constitutes a Good Life: Childhood Studies in Germany

被引：22

作者：

Andresen, Sabine ^{[1
]}

Fegter, Susann ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Bielefeld, Fac Educ, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany

来源：

CHILD INDICATORS RESEARCH | 2011年 / 4卷 / 01期

关键词：

Childhood studies; Perspectives of children; Social inequality; Poverty; The good life; The capability approach; Well-being of children; Martha Nussbaum; Quantitative survey; Ethnographic study;

D O I：

10.1007/s12187-010-9073-3

中图分类号：

C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

This article reports on childhood studies in Germany including two empirical research projects. It concentrates on children living in poverty and on findings regarding how children conceive justice and the "good life." Starting with an overview of the state of the art in German childhood studies, it reports the methods and major findings of the World Vision Survey. Although this representative study of 1,600 children clearly confirms the growth of child poverty in Germany, it was unable to show how the children themselves experience their situation. This leads to the second study of 200 really poor children from Hamburg and Berlin. Focusing on how these children define justice and the good life along with what they understand by these terms, it examined how Martha Nussbaum's Capability Approach can contribute to progress in childhood studies.

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