Children and the Good Life

1. Introduction
Sabine Andresen, Isabell Diehm, Uwe Sander, Holger Ziegler

2. Modern Children and Their Well-Being: Dismantling an Ideal
Tanja Betz

3. Children, the Feminist Ethic of Care and Childhood Studies: Is This the Way to the Good Life?
Tom Cockburn

4. Childhood Welfare and the Rights of Children
Lourdes Gaitán Muñoz

5. Children and Their Needs
Sabine Andresen, Stefanie Albus

6. The Capability Approach and Research on Children: Capability Approach and Children’s Issues
Mario Biggeri, Jérôme Ballet, Flavio Comim

7. Subjective Well-Being and Capabilities: Views on the Well-Being of Young Persons
Holger Ziegler

8. Language Education—For the “Good Life”?
Isabell Diehm, Veronika Magyar-Haas

9. Biographical Research in Childhood Studies: Exploring Children’s Voices from a Pedagogical Perspective
Gonzalo Jover, Bianca Thoilliez

10. Researching Identities, Difference, Subjectivities and Social Relations in Childhood Within Multi-ethnic Infant and Primary School Settings
Cecile Wright

11. Childhood Studies in Turkey
Akile Gürsoy

12. Child Poverty—Social and Economic Policy for Children
Antje Richter-Kornweitz

13. Well-Being of Children in Turkey
Didem Gürses

14. Roma Children and Social Exclusion in Lithuania: Sociological Approach to Human Development
Tadas Leončikas, Vida Beresneviciute

Keywords: Social Sciences, Quality of Life Research, Child and School Psychology