Local, global or globalized?: Child development and international child rights legislation

Childhood

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-66

  Burman, Erica ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children's rights; Development programmes; Developmental psychology; UN convention

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346055072     PISSN: 09075682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0907568296003001004     Document Type: Article

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