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Peer reviewedSkolnick, Arlene – Law and Contemporary Problems, 1975
Examines social and cultural changes that historically have influenced children and ideas about children and discusses intellectual traditions within developmental psychology as an influence on conceptions of childhood. Available from Law and Contemporary Problems, Duke Station, Durham, North Carolina 27706, $16.00 annual subscription. (Author/JG)
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Development, Children, Developmental Psychology
Veerman, Philip E. – 1985
The United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child is a major achievement in the struggle to extend human rights to children. Its antecedents include the efforts of Dan Mulock Houwer, Eglantyne Jebb, Gustave Ador, and the work and words of Janusz Korczak (pioneer in residential care and director of an orphanage in Warsaw between 1912 and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Advocacy, Childhood Needs, Childrens Rights
Download full textStanovich, Keith E. – 1976
The effects of Social Darwinism, eugenics, and contemporary political conservatism on the status of advocacy efforts for the mentally retarded are reviewed. Provided are historical sketches of Social Darwinism, which viewed the retarded as members of an inferior race, and eugenics, which argued for sterilization of the "genetically…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Exceptional Child Education, History, Mental Retardation
