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Children and Education: Statistics Are Just Numbers, But Children Are Nots

Işıl Kellevezir (Yasar University, Turkey)

Being a Child in a Global World

ISBN: 978-1-80117-241-7, eISBN: 978-1-80117-240-0

Publication date: 30 September 2022

Abstract

In the Bollywood film Crow's Egg (Manikandan, 2015), two Indian children eat crow eggs that they collect from trees (taking three out of four eggs and leaving one with the mother crow) because they cannot afford chicken eggs. Because their father is in prison, the children make money by selling pieces of coal that fall off trains to support their working mother. Interestingly, the film shows no images of school in the lives of the two children, aged about seven and 10, and their friends next to them. Unfortunately, there are millions of children in the world who have no room for school in their lives, and they are not just numbers, they are individuals.

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Citation

Kellevezir, I. (2022), "Children and Education: Statistics Are Just Numbers, But Children Are Nots", Yerdelen, B.K., Elbeyoğlu, K., Sirkeci, O., Işıkçı, Y.M., Grima, S. and Dalli Gonzi, R.E. (Ed.) Being a Child in a Global World, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 157-166. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-240-020221016

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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