Teaching Rights and Responsibilities: Paradoxes of Globalization and Children's Citizenship in Lebanon

Efforts to promote a more individualistic model of childhood, pressed on Leba- non from a variety of outside sources including the United Nations, have affected parents and children in Lebanon. At the same time, however, a more collective, family-centered identity continues to have great force. This essay, based on inquiries in two different local settings, discusses the resultant tensions and combinations over recent decades.