Chapter 1 Introduction: Exploring Children’s Lives Beyond the Binary of the Global North and Global South

Chapter 2 Teaching “Global Childhoods”: From a Cultural Mapping of “Them” to a Diagnostic Reading of “Us/US”

Chapter 3 “Child Labour” and Children’s Lives

Chapter 4 “Ours” or “Theirs”: Locating the “Criminal Child” in Relation to Education in the Postcolonial Context of India

Chapter 6 “Family Is Everyone Who Comes Through the Doors of Our Home”: West African Concepts of Family Bridging the North-South Divide in the Diaspora

Chapter 7 “Disabled” Versus “Nondisabled”: Another Redundant Binary?

Chapter 8 Children’s Use of Music in Understanding Time: Perspectives from Singapore, Australia, and the US

Chapter 9 Children’s Resilience and Constructions of Childhood: Cross-Cultural Considerations

Chapter 10 Child Protection Across Worlds: Young People’s Challenges Within and Outside of Child Protection Programmes in UK and Zanzibar Schools

Chapter 11 Environment and Children’s Everyday Lives in India and England: Exploring Children’s Situated Perspectives on Global-Local Environmental Concerns

Chapter 12 Comparing Children’s Care Work Across Majority and Minority Worlds

Chapter 13 Reflections on Binary Thinking