Confronting child labor.

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  • Author(s): Johnson, Katharine
  • Source:
    Primary & Middle Years Educator. Oct2005, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p11-16. 6p. 2 Black and White Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      CHILD labor; ACTIVITY programs in education; AGE & employment; LABOR; EXPERIMENTAL methods in education
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED States
    • Abstract:
      The article presents an analysis on the child labour, which is widely practiced in the United States. The author informs about a two-month-long research project on child labor by her students. Through this exercise, students were beginning to understand that labor often takes place far from where the products of that labor are consumed. By having the students in small groups discussing and reviewing the articles in their research folders, it became possible to get a broad base of supporting details for the two positions. Students developed evidence from both the factual information in articles about international child labor and stories of real children living in child labor.