Children in Brunei Darussalam: their educational, legal and social protections

• Main Authors: Young, Amy, Pg Norhazlin Pg Hj Muhammad, Osman Bakar, O’Leary, Patrick, Abdalla, Mohamad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Theology and Philosophy, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11170/1/IJIT-Vol-11-June-2017_2_6-16-3-Amy-Young-1.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11170/; http://www.ukm.my/ijit/volume-11-june-2017/
• Institution: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

The past two decades of academic work, have cemented the idea that childhood is a social construction. As such, how children are conceptualized, educated, protected and interacted with differs from society to society, given the values inherent in each social construction. Culture, history and geogra...