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Although most of the world's children live in the Global South, much of the corpus of scientific knowledge which forms the basis of the current notion of good childhood worldwide is drawn from research on Western, middle-class children. Even cross-cultural research often applies the Western model of childhood as the standard to which others must correspond. This volume serves to bridge this gap by both bringing up significant features of the development and socialisation of children in African countries and presenting cross-cultural procedures which help to discuss and develop differentiated and joint ideas about childhood, instead of implementing one-sided standards which are disconnected from most children's lives.

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Andrea Kleeberg-Niepage is Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Flensburg, Germany. Her research interests are people's ideas of self and identity, and the focus on children's and young people's reference to social discourses. Yaw Ofosu-Kusi is Associate Professor of Social Studies at the University of Education, Ghana. His research interests are urban childhood and the informal economy, with specific attention given to child migration, street life and labour, and children's agency.Sandra Rademacher is Professor of Educational Science at the University of Flensburg, Germany. Her research interests are socialisation, cross-cultural research on childhood and youth, teacher professionality, and methods and methodology of qualitative research.Michael Tressat is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Flensburg, Germany. His research interests are socialisation, biography, adolescence and migration, digital transformation in education, and the methods and methodology of qualitative reconstructive research.

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