Andresen: Theory and History of Education, Childhood and Children Studies, Poverty, Family Research, Capability Research, Children¿s Rights and Needs
Diehm: Education and Migration, Children and Childhood, Early Childhood Education, Education and Gender
Sander: Research on Youth Culture and Growing up, Media Research, Qualitative Social Research
Ziegler: Capability Approach, Education and Welfare, Social Work, Children and Adolescence

This book provides an excellent overview on recent international results on research on children and childhood, education, well-being and capabilities

It contents theoretical, methodological and empirical accesses

Introduction - Sabine Andresen, Isabell Diehm, Uwe Sander, and Holger Ziegler.- Part I Children and the Good Life: Theoretical Challenges - Susann Fegter, Claudia Machtold and Martins Richter.- Modern Children and Their Well-Being: Dismantling an Ideal - Tanja Betz.- Children, the Feminist Ethic of Care and Childhood Studies:
Is This theWay to the Good Life? - Tom Cockburn.- Childhood Welfare and the Rights of Children - Lourdes Gaitán Muñoz.- Children and Their Needs - Sabine Andresen and Stefanie Albus.- Part II The Capability Approach and Research on Children - Zoe Clark and Franziska Eisenhuth.- The Capability Approach and Research on Children: Capability Approach and Children¿s Issues - Mario Biggeri, Jérôme Ballet, and Flavio Comim.- Subjective Well-Being and Capabilities: Views on theWell-Being
of Young Persons - Holger Ziegler.- Language Education¿For the ¿Good Life¿? - Isabell Diehm and Veronika Magyar-Haas.- Part III Children¿s Perspectives: Methodological Critiques
and Empirical Studies - Christine Hunner-Kreisel and Melanie Kuhn.- Biographical Research in Childhood Studies: Exploring Children¿s Voices from a Pedagogical Perspective - Gonzalo Jover and Bianca Thoilliez.- Researching Identities, Difference, Subjectivities and Social Relations in Childhood Within Multi-ethnic Infant and Primary School Settings - Cecile Wright.- Childhood Studies in Turkey - Akile Gürsoy.- Part IV Structural Conditions and Children in Different National Contexts - Tim Kohler and Uwe Sander.- Child Poverty¿Social and Economic Policy for Children - Antje Richter-Kornweitz.- Well-Being of Children in Turkey - Didem Gürses.- Roma Children and Social Exclusion in Lithuania: Sociological
Approach to Human Development - Tadas Leoncikas and Vida Beresneviciute