Author: Publisher: PUQ
ISBN: 2760520048
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Author: Journals
Author: Canada. Legislature. Legislative AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Place of Work in African Childhoods
Author: Bourdillon, MichaelPublisher: CODESRIA
ISBN: 2869785976
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This book is about how work enters and affects the lives of children in Africa, taking for granted neither the traditional values surrounding children’s work, nor the international standards against it. Many African societies nurture their children on the ingrained notion that children must work as part of their process of growing up. Children participate in their families and communities through the work they do in the house and in whatever else their families do. Such views are, however, antithetical to the dominant views in Europe and North America which see childhood as a time of freedom from responsibility and economic activity. These views have become so popular with the elites in other countries to the extent that they now drive international campaigns against ‘child labour’, and have been incorporated into what are now considered universal international standards and conventions. This book was conceived within the framework of the CODESRIA tradition of taking African perspectives seriously and not allowing social research in Africa to become subservient to values from outside. African scholars remain keenly aware of the need not to isolate themselves from developments in the wider world, which could lead to stagnation. This book, through empirical observation of the lives of African children, the work they do, its place in their lives, and what the children say about it, proposes new perspectives towards a new understanding of this complex stage of human development. Work is not simply about the right to income: work provides identity and status in society, and participation in the community. People relate to one another through work. Those who do not work are often without status and are at the periphery of society. One of the major ways in which this book differs from most of the available literature is in the understanding it brings to the problem of ‘child labour’. There are economic reasons why children may need an income of their own. There is the demographic fact that the proportion of children to adults in low-income countries is nearly double that in high-income societies. This book attempts to demonstrate that work is both necessary and beneficial in terms of a child’s development to become a full, responsible, and respectable member of society.
Library Work for Children and Young Adults in the Developing Countries / Les enfants, les jeunes et les bibliothèques dans les pays en développement
Author: Geneviève PattePublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3111635244
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.
This is the U.S.A.
Author: United States. Office of War InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
La France
Author: Claude RivièrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Vanity Fair
Author: Sujets Jeunesse
Author: Johanne ArsenaultPublisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 152553629X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Foi: le moyen de croire ce qu'on ne voit pas. Espeérance: nous ancre pour ne pas s'eéloigner ou se perdre. Chariteé: pour maintenir la gentillesse. Sujets Jeunesse est un livre d’enfant pour vivre une vie de compassion et plus joyeuse. Les sujets divers incluent la nature, la diversité, le respect, la peur, la charité, la tolérance, la réflexion et les fondamentaux d’une bonne vie. Ce livre est pour les enfants de tous âges, et pour les adultes qui vont leur lire, parce que nous ne sommes jamais trop vieux pour apprendre. Pour que le monde devienne une meilleur place, nous devons avant tout devenir de meilleur humains—de meilleur petits humains. Ce livre a pour but d’enlever les barrières de jugement et malentendu en ouvrant les idées et les esprits des enfants et de leurs parents et éducateurs. Il apporte des messages accessibles éparpillés de grains de sagesse sans âge, Sujets Jeunesse affectera ses lecteurs de nombreuses façons positives; tout le monde sera en mesure de s’identifier aux sujets évoqués, et tout le monde se sentira encouragé à considérer profondément la façon dont il agit ou réagit aux autres personnes peu importe la situation. Le résultat final de ce livre est une vision d’un monde plus doux, développé avec patience au fil du temps et construit sur nos capacités naturelles pour l’empathie et les soins.
Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustre
Author: Pierre Athanase LaroussePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French
Languages : en
Pages : 1780
Book Description
Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas
Author: François-Marc GagnonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773587233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced by François-Marc Gagnon, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas showcases an intriguing attempt to document the life of the new world - flora, fauna, and aboriginal. The book brings together for the first time the illustrated Codex Canadensis and The Natural History of the New World, following Gagnon's argument that both can be attributed to Louis Nicolas, a French Jesuit priest who travelled throughout Canada between 1664 and 1675. Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales, originally written in classical French, has been put in modern French by Réal Ouellet and translated into English by Nancy Senior. The Natural History presents a pre-Linnaean botany and pre-Darwinian account of living things, including hundreds of species of plants and vivid descriptions of wildlife. It is thoroughly annotated, focusing on the contemporary identification of species, as the result of a pan-Canadian collaboration of experts in fields from linguistics to biology and botany. The Codex Canadensis, currently in the collection of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is reproduced in full and provides both a fascinating visual account of wildlife as Nicolas saw it and a rare example of early Canadian art. Gagnon's introduction profiles Louis Nicolas and analyses connections between his work and European examples of natural illustration from the period. The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas shows how the wildlife and native inhabitants of the new world were understood and documented by a seventeenth-century European and makes available fundamental documents in the history and visual culture of early North America.