Beth Blue Swadener is professor of Justice Studies at the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on internationally comparative social policy, with focus on sub-Saharan Africa, impacts of neoliberal policy on local communities, and children’s rights and voices. She has co-edited and authored 11 books, including Children and Families “At Promise”; Does the Village Still Raise the Child?; Decolonizing Research in Cross-Cultural Context; Children’s Rights and Education and Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education: A Reader. Beth  is a co-founder of the Jirani Project, supporting children in Kenya, Local to Global Justice, and Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE), and is active in several child advocacy organizations. 

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