Children's Work, Health, and School Demand

Abstract

These tandem papers – authored by Niels-Hugo Blunch and Craig Gundersen, Thomas Kelly, and Kyle Jemison – add to a long line of work that identifies the features of childhood and family that influence youngsters’ propensity to enter and stay in school. What's intriguing from the start of both reports is the variability in conditions in which children are growing up, evident in both Ghana and Zimbabwe. In these societies, between one-sixth and one-fifth of children, roughly between the ages of 6 and 16 years, are not attending school.

Citation

Fuller, B. (2006), "Children's Work, Health, and School Demand", Hannum, E. and Fuller, B. (Ed.) Children's Lives and Schooling across Societies (Research in the Sociology of Education, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 231-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3539(06)15012-0