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2. Why more ‘quality time’ is not on the top of children's lists: the ‘qualities of time’ for children<FNR></FNR><FN>Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the ESRC Children 5–16 Final Conference, London House 20–21st November 2001, and at The National Parenting Institute, London. </FN>
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Christensen, Pia Haudrup
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FAMILY life surveys , *CHILDREN , *PARENT-child relationships , *QUALITY of life - Abstract
For many years the everyday reality of working parents and their children has been captured in notions of ‘quality time’ versus ‘quantity time’. On the one hand it is suggested that what families need is ‘more time’ for parents to spend together with their children and less time working. On the other hand this has been countered with arguments saying that attention has to be paid to how parents spend their time together with their children. As a result quality time is often presented through idealised images of ‘happy families’. Quality time is seen as parents engaging with their children in particular activities or outdoor excursions that create and maintain family enjoyment, care and togetherness. However, such debates are based on assumptions of what would be ‘good’ for today's children and neglect the perspective of children themselves. This paper draws on field research carried out with 10–11-year-old children on their understandings and use of time in an urban and a rural setting in the north of England. The paper points to five ‘qualities of time’ identified by children. These qualities suggest that children's views of time spent with their families cannot be seen as separate from the time they spend with friends, at school and on their own. The paper argues that the quality/quantity time conundrum needs replacing by fuller and more representative accounts of the varied aspects of time that matter for children. These need to be situated in the processes through which family, school and work life take place on a daily basis and in relation to children's life course. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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3. 'If the Social Worker Had Called at Least It Would Show They Cared'. Young Care Leaver's Perspectives on the Importance of Care
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Gaskell, Carolyn
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Young people leaving local authority care are frequently discussed in terms of being socially excluded and having "poor life outcomes". In terms of educational achievement, employment and involvement in the criminal justice system, those with an experience of the care system fare the worst. Within the context of these poor outcomes, the Government Green Paper "Care Matters" has emerged. However, the Green Paper's outcomes framework for looked after children's well-being risks simplifying the complex nature of children's experiences and needs. It is children's experiences of care, both before entering the care system and whilst growing up within the care system that shapes their well-being and their life outcomes. The basis of improving children's outcomes should include listening to and understanding what children need from the care system. This knowledge helps to develop an understanding of how failings within the care system are experienced by children in care and how these experiences are subsequently translated into negative outcomes for young care leavers. Drawing upon qualitative, empirical data, this study aims to explore young care leavers' experiences of care. Through this, the extent to which feelings of care shape self esteem and a sense of self will be explored. Finally, this study will outline themes of trust and stability in the provision of care services and how these can shape positive outcomes for care leavers.
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- 2010
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4. Young children's agency with digital technologies.
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Nolan, Andrea, Edwards, Susan, Salamon, Andi, Straker, Leon, Grieshaber, Susan, Skouteris, Helen, Henderson, Michael, Highfield, Kate, and Bartlett, Jacinta
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RESEARCH ,DIGITAL technology ,CHILD development ,CHILD welfare ,PHILOSOPHY ,THEMATIC analysis ,CHILDREN - Abstract
This paper examines the evidence of children's agency in research about infants, toddlers and technologies. It finds that an implicit reliance on technological determinism as a theoretical perspective for positioning technologies relative to young children's development tends to shape research in terms of understanding the impact of technologies on young children. Drawing on critical constructivism as a philosophical stance on technologies, this paper argues that children's agency with technologies may be further investigated in terms of practice architectures to better understand the social mediation of infant and toddler interactions and engagements with technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. Constructions of Child and Youth Advocacy: Emerging Issues in Advocacy Practice
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Dalrymple, Jane
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The development of child and youth advocacy has been informed by varying theoretical perspectives and in the last decade has been increasingly incorporated into policy and legislation for young people in receipt of welfare services. Through examining the varying perspectives of young people, advocates and commissioners of advocacy services it can be seen that although there is some consensus about how advocacy should be provided, the construction of advocacy by adults may have a significant impact on how it is experienced by young people. This paper draws on material from five advocacy projects to examine how advocacy is constructed by those involved in the provision and receipt of services. It argues that there is a danger that the construction of advocacy in an adult proceduralised way is likely to compromise its potential to challenge the structures that deny young people opportunities to participate in decision making about their lives.
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- 2005
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6. Beyond infantilization and adultification: The binary representations of child migrants in the United States and how they harm young migrants.
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Diaz‐Strong, Daysi Ximena, Padilla‐Rodríguez, Ivόn, and Torres, Stephanie
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YOUNG adults , *CHILDREN of immigrants , *DEFERRED Action for Childhood Arrivals (U.S.) , *QUALITATIVE research , *HISTORICAL analysis - Abstract
The arrival of migrant children at the US–Mexico border has prompted vigorous debates about how to handle their admission and manage their access to resources. Portrayals of child migrants often draw on dominant conventional notions of childhood, creating binary representations that simultaneously infantilize and adultify them. This binary representation either strips children of their agency or criminalizes their actions and denies them protection. This paper exposes the inadequacies of the infantilization and adultification binary to represent and understand the experiences of child migrants, particularly youth who immigrate as teenagers, through a transdisciplinary approach. Integrating original historical analysis via archival research with contemporary social scientific analysis from qualitative research, this paper examines the longstanding binary representations of migrant children and their harmful impacts. The historical analysis shows that infantilization and adultification have defined the US response to child migrants since the mid‐1960s. Making connections to the present, through the stories of two unaccompanied teenage arrivals, we show how the binary is experienced and how Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) reflects and reinforces the binary. The paper also highlights how young people, who do not fit neatly into the binary, come to subjectively feel adult, elucidating the need for an alternative narrative that embraces child migrants' agency and advocates for support and protection for all youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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7. Youth provisioning in low‐income families: Reconsidering theories of poor attachment.
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Caragata, Lea
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CHILD welfare , *RESEARCH funding , *QUALITATIVE research , *FOCUS groups , *ATTACHMENT behavior , *FAMILY roles , *EMOTIONS , *MOTHER-child relationship , *SOCIAL support , *POVERTY , *PSYCHOSOCIAL factors , *SINGLE parents - Abstract
This paper explores the relationships between low‐income single mothers and their adolescent and early adult children utilizing qualitative interview and focus group data with youth from three Canadian cities. The research explored youth provisioning roles in these families. Provisioning, a concept widely understood in the global south, refers to labour used to sustain low‐income families and includes emotional labour, care work, trade and exchange and paid labour. Findings from this study identified strong expressions of positive attachment and close relationships between youth and their family members. The paper queries whether positive attachment may be built through roles where youth see themselves as integral parts of a family team and where their contributions are acknowledged. These findings invite us to explore and perhaps challenge the oft‐reported correlations between living in a low‐income, lone mother‐led family and poor childhood outcomes and poor attachment. Can these outcomes be mediated and can the provisioning roles youth undertake possibly be such mediators? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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8. What are Aboriginal children and young people in out‐of‐home care telling us? A review of the child voice literature to understanding perspectives and experiences of the statutory care system.
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Burns, Bradley, Grace, Rebekah, Drake, Gabrielle, and Avery, Scott
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POLICY sciences , *MEDICAL quality control , *RESEARCH funding , *HEALTH policy , *CULTURE , *FAMILY relations , *DECISION making , *EVALUATION of medical care , *LISTENING , *ABORIGINAL Australians , *THEMATIC analysis , *COMMUNICATION , *PSYCHOSOCIAL factors , *PSYCHOLOGY of foster children , *SOCIAL participation , *ADOLESCENCE , *CHILDREN - Abstract
Aboriginal children and young people are over‐represented in the out‐of‐home care system, yet their voices are largely absent in practice and policy decision‐making. This paper presents a review of research that captures the voices of Aboriginal children and young people in out‐of‐home care. Three key themes are discussed: connection to culture, connection to family and participation. This paper argues for culturally meaningful research that honours child and youth citizenship, voice and roles in decision‐making as critical to quality care and positive outcomes. This paper aims to highlight the importance of listening and responding to the voices of Aboriginal children and young people as critical to the provision of appropriate care and supporting positive outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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9. A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil.
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Krishnamurthy, Sukanya, Chan, Loritta, Powell, Mary Ann, Tisdall, E. Kay M., Rizzini, Irene, Nuggehalli, Roshni K., Tauro, Alicia, and Palavalli, Bharath
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RESEARCH funding , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *MEDICAL research , *DATA analysis software , *PATIENT participation , *POLITICAL participation - Abstract
This paper explores how research advisory groups can be a vehicle for youth activism. It draws on our experiences with young activists, aged 15–26 years, in India and Brazil, who were advisors on a research project focused on youth livelihoods in cities. These young people played a vital role in supporting youth researchers, identifying research themes and developing engagement and advocacy strategies. Through this paper, we explore how the Youth Expert Group advisory model evolved differently in each location and examine how these were shaped by the context, the 'adult' research team and the youth activists themselves. A critically reflexive response in intergenerational partnership is essential to support youth activists in research activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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10. Using innovative communication pathways to reframe the perception of young people within the political establishment.
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Bourke, Jackie
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RESEARCH funding , *DECISION making , *JUDGMENT sampling , *PUBLIC spaces , *CREATIVE ability , *COMMUNICATION , *METROPOLITAN areas , *PRACTICAL politics , *POLITICAL participation , *NEIGHBORHOOD characteristics , *ADOLESCENCE - Abstract
This paper presents research into communication pathways between young people and political decision‐makers. The aim of the study was to give young people a platform to challenge how they are perceived in urban public space. Using innovative creative mapping methods, a group of teenagers shared insights into their everyday experiences of their urban neighbourhood with elected political representatives. This paper argues that the perception of young people within the political establishment inhibits engagement and change, but that the participation process is an important step towards reframing perceptions and affecting change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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11. 'Once you bond ... you want to create social change': Interpersonal relationships in youth activism.
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Assan, Thalia Thereza
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WOMEN of color , *RESEARCH funding , *SOCIAL change , *ANTI-racism , *CHARITY , *PSYCHOLOGY of Black people , *RESEARCH methodology , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *POLITICAL participation , *FRIENDSHIP - Abstract
This paper calls for greater attention to the interpersonal aspects of youth activism through a sociological and Black feminist exploration of peer relationships within youth political engagement. Drawing on a multi‐method qualitative research, the work foregrounds the perspectives and experiences of Black girls and girls of colour involved in an anti‐racist Scottish youth work charity. I argue that community and friendship ties cultivated participants' activism. Moreover, participants sought to enact social change by undertaking activist educational practices with their peers. This paper demonstrates how studying young people's peer relationships can engender a better understanding of youth activism and support it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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12. Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown.
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Donegan, Aoife, Devine, Dympna, Martinez‐Sainz, Gabriela, Symonds, Jennifer, and Sloan, Seaneen
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SCHOOL environment ,TEACHER-student relationships ,AFFINITY groups ,FRIENDSHIP ,INTERVIEWING ,CHILD behavior ,SELF-efficacy ,ATTITUDES toward illness ,EXPERIENCE ,ACTION research ,CASE studies ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,STUDENTS ,PSYCHOLOGY of school children ,STUDENT attitudes ,ELEMENTARY schools ,STAY-at-home orders ,COVID-19 pandemic - Abstract
This paper documents co‐participatory research with children in six primary schools in Ireland during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It explores the use of what we term digital dialogues with diverse groups of children aged 9–10 years as members of Child Research Advisory Groups. The paper conceptualises the digital dialogues as sites of resistance as well as constraint, empowering children to articulate their voices in relation to schooling and the pandemic, whilst mediated by power dynamics—between adults and children, and between children, in the articulation of those voices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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13. 'It's the way they look at you': Why discrimination towards young parents is a policy and practice issue.
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HEALTH policy ,PARENT attitudes ,CULTURE ,SCIENTIFIC observation ,FOCUS groups ,JUDGMENT (Psychology) ,TEENAGE mothers ,DISCRIMINATION (Sociology) ,PRACTICAL politics ,INTERVIEWING ,SOCIAL stigma ,ETHNOLOGY research ,PSYCHOSOCIAL factors ,TEENAGE fathers - Abstract
Qualitative research has long critiqued a simplistic association between youth parenting and poor outcomes. Despite this, the UK youth parenting policy continues to view young parents through a narrow deficit lens, focused on assumed risk rather than structural inequalities. The paper brings together the direct accounts of young parents' experiences, with ethnographic observation of practice, to argue that discrimination is the critical issue associated with being a young parent. This is then set within a wider critique of the policy framework which, it is argued, perpetuates and normalises negative ideas about young parents prevalent in political, societal and cultural processes. An integrative theoretical approach is used to highlight how a deficit lens at a policy level upholds, rather than undermines, young parents' intersectional experiences of discrimination and has ethical implications for practitioners working with them. The paper calls for a reorientation of policy which addresses and disrupts discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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14. Children and Society Policy Review—A review of government consultation processes when engaging with children and young people about the statutory guidance for Relationships and Sex Education in schools in England.
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Setty, Emily and Dobson, Emma
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HEALTH education ,HUMAN rights ,STAKEHOLDER analysis ,PRACTICAL politics ,PUBLIC administration ,SEX education ,GOVERNMENT policy ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,POLICY sciences ,CHILDREN ,ADOLESCENCE - Abstract
This paper examines the participation of children and young people within government consultation processes. It considers the recent Department for Education consultation on its statutory guidance for schools for Relationships and Sex Education in England. The paper is based on a Freedom of Information request for the consultation responses categorised as from 'young people'. We identify two issues in our interrogation of the data. First, there is evidence that a substantial proportion of responses were not submitted by young people. Second, the consultation approach did not include all the features necessary for meaningful consultation. We consider the implications for the youth consultation on policy matters that affect them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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15. The Tree(s) of Hope and Ambition: An arts‐based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID‐19.
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Williams, Sara, McEwen, Lindsey Jo, Gorell Barnes, Luci, Deave, Toity, Webber, Amanda, Jones, Verity, Fogg‐Rogers, Laura, Gopinath, Deepak, and Hobbs, Laura
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ART ,SOCIAL support ,CHILD care ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) in children ,TIME ,INDIVIDUALITY ,HOPE ,SOCIAL sciences ,ACTION research ,HEALTH care teams ,CHILDREN'S health ,RESEARCH funding ,THEMATIC analysis ,COVID-19 pandemic ,REFLECTION (Philosophy) ,HEALTH planning - Abstract
This paper offers a new child‐centred methodology that explores children's visions of their futures, encourages self‐reflection and depth and shares children's voices with peers and researchers, as unbrokered as possible. This final stage of a longitudinal, arts‐based, social science‐informed project was delivered by partnering with schools in socially disadvantaged areas of Bristol, a UK city. Our two‐phase activity used a Tree metaphor to explore children's hopes, ambitions and support, looking forward to recovery from the COVID‐19 pandemic. The analysis combined multi‐disciplinary thematic and visual‐narrative analysis, and revealed diversity, intersection and individuality in themes that scaled out from the child and their family over different timescales. Themes included emotion (concerns; empathy), experiences (happenings, resources skills; aspirations) and relationships, linked to their recent experiences of COVID‐19 mitigation. The paper reflects critically on children's and researchers' positionality, and the complexities involved in developing research methods that encourage children's autonomy, agency and authenticity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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16. Negotiating power dynamics through co‐reflexivity in research with young children in disadvantaged communities.
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El Gemayel, Sandra Marie and Salema, Yaspia
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CULTURE ,HUMAN research subjects ,PARTICIPANT-researcher relationships ,ETHICS ,COMMUNITIES ,INFORMED consent (Medical law) ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,RESEARCH funding ,MEDICAL research ,POWER (Social sciences) ,TRUST ,CHILDREN - Abstract
This paper addresses how unequal power dynamics in research with young children in disadvantaged communities can be negotiated through co‐reflexivity. It explores this through two different projects, the "London Study" and the "Beirut Study", which researched the play of young children from families living with disadvantage in two distinct cultures. First, we highlight similarities between both studies' methodological and ethical approaches that were designed to 'listen' to the children, ensure 'ongoing consent' and co‐create knowledge through co‐reflexivity. We then draw on data from each study to demonstrate how, in their unique contexts, co‐reflexivity was crucial to address researcher–child power dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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17. Navigating the rights of intersex children in Zimbabwe.
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Gambiza, Pearl and Venganai, Hellen
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Despite the seemingly progressive strides made in promoting the rights of children in many African countries, the rights of intersex children remain hidden. This paper explores the lived experiences of intersex children in Zimbabwe drawing from in‐depth interviews conducted with intersex children aged between 8 and 16 years. The paper reveals a myriad of overlapping challenges faced by intersex children compounded by a lack of legal recognition and influence of cultural and religious discourses which threaten intersex children's sexual and reproductive health rights including their right to bodily autonomy and integrity, as well as their right to education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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18. Girls, sexuality and playground‐assemblages in a South African primary school.
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Janak, Raksha and Bhana, Deevia
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SOCIALIZATION , *HUMAN sexuality , *RESEARCH methodology , *SELF-perception , *INTERVIEWING , *PSYCHOLOGY of women , *SCHOOLS , *PLAY , *RESEARCH funding , *PSYCHOLOGY of school children , *STUDENT attitudes - Abstract
Inspired by new feminist materialism, this paper seeks to reimagine existing knowledge of girls, sexuality and playgrounds by considering how the socio‐material reality may unlock girls' capacities for what is possible through play. Focusing on semi‐structured interviews of girls (aged 12–13), the paper draws attention to the playground as an 'assemblage' of human and non‐human matter that connect to illuminate other ways of being, feeling and doing. We argue that the assemblage not only creates spaces for girls to disrupt hetero‐patriarchal ideologies but simultaneously serves to reinforce them. Interventions require attention to the oppressive materialities that underpin play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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19. Children's book illustrations from China and Ukraine: Comparison of different formats.
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Wang, Hanping
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ART , *ELECTRONIC books , *AGE distribution , *ONE-way analysis of variance , *CHILD behavior , *T-test (Statistics) , *BOOKS , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *SCALE analysis (Psychology) - Abstract
This study was aimed at comparing different formats of illustrations for children's books created by modern Chinese and Ukrainian artists. At the same time, it was not focused just on determining the leading format, but on identifying the attractiveness factors of each format. To this end, the study investigated children's illustration preferences drawing from the following three age groups: 5–6 years old (preschoolers), 7–8 years old (second‐graders), and 9–10 years old (fourth‐graders). According to the survey, children were most concerned with illustration colourfulness (this is true for paper and pop‐up books) and viewing convenience. There were no statistically significant differences found between Chinese and Ukrainian books in terms of these parameters. At the same time, Chinese e‐books appeared to outperform the Ukrainian texts in terms of feature management and illustration colourfulness. Publishers and artists of children's books can use these data for effective creative activity and making constructive decisions. At the same time, these findings may be of interest to parents, informing or guiding book selection for children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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20. Facilitation of adolescents' agency and hybrid integration.
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Baraldi, Claudio
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SCHOOL environment , *WELL-being , *RESEARCH , *SOCIAL support , *HUMAN rights , *MIGRANT labor , *CULTURAL pluralism , *CONCEPTUAL structures , *EXPERIENCE , *PSYCHOSOCIAL factors , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *SEX discrimination , *COMMUNICATION , *DIGNITY , *VIDEO recording , *CULTURAL values , *ADOLESCENCE - Abstract
This paper is based on a Horizon 2020 research project on the enhancement of migrant children's ability to contribute to the change of their conditions of integration in the education system in seven countries (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation, CHILD‐UP; GA 822400). The paper draws on data collected in vocational schools, with adolescents aged 14–16, in Italy. It draws on transcribed interactions to analyse activities in school classrooms in which facilitators support migrant adolescent's agency in producing narratives of their personal cultural trajectories. The paper shows how facilitators and adolescents share the rights of telling the narratives, the gender differences that become visible in the adolescents' narratives, and the ways in which facilitation supports the hybrid integration of migrant adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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21. Teens and Brexit in Northern Ireland: Merging rights with responsibilities.
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ADOLESCENT development ,PRACTICAL politics ,VOTING ,ADOLESCENT health ,SOCIAL attitudes ,CIVIL rights ,CITIZENSHIP - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the attitudes of teenagers (aged 13–16) from Belfast to the Brexit referendum through exploring their attitudes to the implications of Brexit for their future lives and how they explain why adults decided to vote leave. The paper illuminates how young people discussed the right to vote alongside responsibilities to non‐voters. In this way, teenagers demonstrated the often messy relationship that exists between citizenship rights and responsibilities and how this has differing generational implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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22. Adult narratives of childhood language brokering: Learning what it means to be bilingual.
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Phoenix, Ann and Faulstich Orellana, Marjorie
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JUDGMENT (Psychology) ,MULTILINGUALISM ,RETROSPECTIVE studies ,LEARNING strategies ,RESPECT ,HEALTH facility translating services - Abstract
This paper analyses the retrospective narratives of an adult language broker. Language brokering involved not only learning how to translate/interpret language for others, but also understanding the meaning that Spanish and English assumed in society and the ways in which she and her parents were socially positioned. Language brokering was both psychosocial and agentic. The participant had to align her respect for, and protectiveness of, her parents with the disrespect and harsh judgement she sensed from those with whom they sought to communicate in various sites. The paper illuminates the complexity of the processes of developing multilingual practices and identities in their intersectional and relational multisitedness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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23. Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness.
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Kim, Chae‐Young
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INTERVIEWING ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,RESEARCH funding ,STATISTICAL models ,REFLECTION (Philosophy) - Abstract
Reflexivity has received relatively little analytic attention in discussions of younger adolescents' agency. Using interview data from a sample of South Korean adolescents, this paper explores whether and how they manifested reflexivity concerning the impacts of socioeconomic inequality on their own occupational prospects. Through combining and adapting existing theorisations, it proposes a heuristic model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity based on three interrelated continua: reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness. It is hoped this model will facilitate a more nuanced understanding of how adolescents' agency is constructed in relation to their developing capacity for reflexivity and the impacts of structural inequalities upon it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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24. Using cinema voice to promote positive intimate relationships among European youth: The Lights4Violence Project.
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Neves, Sofia, Ieracitano, Francesca, Topa, Joana, Silva, Estefânia, Blanes, Maria Carmen Davó, Costa, Dália, Mocanu, Veronica, Gotcã, Ioan, and Vives‐Cases, Carmen
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INTIMACY (Psychology) ,AUDIOVISUAL materials ,COUPLES therapy ,EUROPEANS ,DATING violence ,INTERPERSONAL relations in adolescence ,RESEARCH funding ,THEMATIC analysis ,HEALTH promotion - Abstract
The paper explores the content of 61 video capsules, presenting stories about unhealthy relationships invented, performed and filmed by 534 adolescents, from Spain, Portugal, Romania and Italy. The purpose is to analyse, through a thematic analysis of the video capsules, youth perspectives on what factors, myths and beliefs turn healthy relationships into unhealthy relationships, and what positive assets are managed to solve them. The results show common youth's perspectives on the idealization of romantic love, based on gender stereotypes, identified as a common characteristic of unhealthy relationships. Individuality is misinterpreted as a threat to the stability of dating relationships. Positive assets used by victims to face dating violence (DV) are assertiveness, communication abilities and management of emotions, whereas offenders used assertiveness, empathy and critical thinking. The paper debates the efficacy of intervention programs combining youth positive development and DV prevention approaches based on filmmaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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25. Unpacking the discourses of stunting in Indonesian early childhood education and parenting.
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Adriany, Vina and Tesar, Marek
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GOVERNMENT regulation ,POLICY science research ,PARENTING ,EARLY intervention (Education) ,RESEARCH funding ,DISCOURSE analysis ,TEACHERS ,GROWTH disorders ,NUTRITION policy ,SECONDARY analysis - Abstract
This paper interrogates the discourses of stunting in Indonesia and its links to early childhood education. Here, stunting is analysed via Foucault's work, with data stemming from a long‐term ethnography study and analysis of relevant policy documents in Indonesia. We argue the discourses of stunting have been regulating children, teachers and parents by acting as a form of biopower of governing rationalities. Focusing merely on the individual and nutrition aspects, the discourses overlook larger societal problems. In such a space, the children, teachers and parents become a site of the state's surveillance and are produced as docile bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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26. Editorial.
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Pugh, Gillian and Parton, Nigel
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CHILD welfare policy ,CHILD services ,CHILDREN'S health ,CHILD care - Abstract
The article presents an introduction to the 2003 issue of the "Children & Society" journal. Leading researchers and policy advisors in the children's field have been invited to assess how well the government of Great Britain is doing in reaching their objectives and to what extent services for children and young people have improved. The papers in this issue reflect some of the tensions and ambiguities within government policy. Whereas there is no shortage of activities, it is still too early to assess the effectiveness of much of what has been put in place. The reduction and eventual elimination of child poverty is perhaps the government's over-riding commitment and Jonathan Bradshaw's paper assesses trends in child poverty in Great Britain over the last 25 years. Health and well-being are a central component of the social inclusion in the agenda. The paper of Zarrina Kurtz outlines the impact that the government policies may have on outcomes for the physical and mental health of children but acknowledges that it is difficult to assess changes in health status as it relies heavily on proxy measures. The national child care strategy, with its emphasis on enabling parents to return to work, is also central to the government's anti-poverty strategy. Gillian Pugh considers what progress has been made towards a coherent policy for children under eight and concludes that much has been achieved through additional funding leading to an expansion of services and through a more integrated approach to planning and providing services across the statutory, voluntary and independent sectors.
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- 2003
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27. 'Why blame the girls'?: Contextual factors enabling juvenile prostitution in a Ghanaian metropolis.
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Oduro, Georgina Yaa and Amoah, John Oti
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AFFINITY groups , *SOCIAL media , *SEX work , *SYSTEMS theory , *RESEARCH funding , *JUVENILE offenders , *HOUSING , *POVERTY , *ADOLESCENCE - Abstract
Framed by Urie Bronfenbrenners' (1979) ecological systems theory, this paper analyses the contextual factors that facilitate commercial sex work among adolescent girls in a metropolis in Ghana. Focusing on contextual factors rather than individual perspectives, we examined the background of minors involved in sex trade by interviewing 15 juvenile prostitutes (aged 14–17) and several key stakeholders. We explored factors that cause them to engage in prostitution, such as dysfunctional family systems, peer and sibling influence, inadequate accommodation, media influence and fashionable trends, as well as poverty and survival dynamics. An innovative discovery presented in this paper is the strong presence of schools, and resultant young people, as well as tourist attractions and cultural celebrations such as festivals and funerals as drivers of juvenile prostitution in the study site. The paper concludes by recommending a multi‐sectoral approach to addressing juvenile prostitution challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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28. 'The invisible babies': Exploring the ecosystemic challenges and opportunities of childcare for undocumented asylum‐seeking infants and toddlers.
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Mayer, Yael
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CHILD care , *PSYCHOLOGY of parents , *EDUCATION , *HUMAN rights , *CHILD care workers , *CHILD development , *SYSTEMS theory , *COMMUNITY health services , *COMMUNITY support , *SOCIAL factors , *ECOSYSTEMS , *REFUGEES , *CHILD welfare , *GOVERNMENT policy , *NEEDS assessment , *SOCIAL responsibility , *CHILDREN - Abstract
This paper examines the case of community daycares for undocumented children of asylum‐seeking families in Israel named the 'Babysitters'. It explores how lack of support and national solutions for childcare leads to temporal and unregulated childcare solutions that may risk children's lives and development. Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory is utilized in this paper to explore the challenges and opportunities of early childhood education for young children in asylum‐seeking families. The analysis reveals how the lack of clear policies, absence of national responsibilities, and existing societal barriers to early childhood education compelled asylum‐seeking parents in Israel to use the 'Babysitters' community daycares for infants and toddlers. Putative solutions that require policy change could help address youngsters' early childhood education needs in asylum‐seeking families and align with human rights and international treaties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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29. A child‐centred asylum policy: Building on evidence and unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children's views.
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Gornik, Barbara
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WELL-being , *HUMAN rights , *PRACTICAL politics , *REFUGEES , *GOVERNMENT policy , *CHILD welfare , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *ACCESS to information , *RESEARCH funding , *PUBLIC opinion , *CHILDREN - Abstract
The political sphere is typically reserved for adults in contemporary nation‐states, leaving limited opportunities for children's participation in democratic processes. This holds even more true for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children who are politically unrepresented and often find themselves in a precarious position due to their immigrant status. The article aims to overcome this gap by presenting their experiences of Slovenian reception and asylum procedures as a framework for child‐informed policy. The child‐centred approach as presented in this paper starts from the principles of children's rights, particularly from the right to express views (Article 12 of the CRC) and the use of children's viewpoints as a way of interpreting how reception and asylum procedures should be. In this way, the paper highlights key factors that affect unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children's well‐being and participation rights, including being able to stay with family and friends, having adequate material conditions, having good relationships with institutional staff, having access to information and legal advice, having trained interviewers, translators and decision‐makers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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30. Children's lives in an era of school closures: Exploring the implications of COVID‐19 for child labour in Ghana.
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Mohammed, Abdul‐Rahim
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QUALITATIVE research ,SCHOOLS ,INTERVIEWING ,CHILD labor ,STAY-at-home orders ,THEMATIC analysis ,RURAL conditions ,RESEARCH methodology ,COVID-19 pandemic ,POVERTY - Abstract
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared COVID‐19 a global pandemic. Subsequently, governments worldwide implemented strict regimes of lockdowns and school closures to contain the transmission of the virus. Ghana's government on 15 March 2020 also announced a lockdown and closure of schools, lasting up till January 2021. Against this backdrop, the paper examined the implications of school closures on child labour in Ghana. Qualitative data for the study were collected between October 2020 to February 2021 in a small rural community in northern Ghana. Findings from 16 semi‐structured interviews with schoolchildren aged 8–13 years show how school closures have meant that children from contexts of poverty: (a) are driven into child labour as they are either forced to accompany their parents to work on farms or sell foodstuff by the roadside; and thus, ultimately (b) engage in no learning during the lockdown period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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31. Embedded in relations—Interactions as a source of agency and life opportunities for care‐experienced young adults.
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LIFE change events ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,INTERVIEWING ,LIFE ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,DECISION making ,RESEARCH funding ,FOSTER home care ,LONGITUDINAL method - Abstract
This paper explores how young people who have been in out‐of‐home care develop a positive agentic capacity. The analyses are based on longitudinal biographical interviews with 24 care experienced young people (age 16–32 years) living in Norway. At the time of the interviews, they were in the education system or working and described themselves as 'doing well'. Through the application of a relational understanding of agency, this paper provides in‐depth insights into how relations shape the biography, identity and decisions of young people with care backgrounds, scaffold positive possibilities and enhance their life opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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32. Rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability in the primary classroom.
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Hamilton, Paula and Matthews, Sarah
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POLITICAL attitudes , *DISABILITY awareness , *CHILDHOOD friendships , *MEDICAL model , *CRITICAL pedagogy - Abstract
This paper examines the outcomes of a disability awareness programme aimed at rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability (SEND) with children aged 8–9 years old. Designed specifically for this research study, the work was undertaken in a mainstream primary classroom in England. Although research has been undertaken in this area, it is limited and often focused on children's friendships. Drawing upon a disability studies in education lens, the study contributes to the literature through its use of interactive methods to elicit and deconstruct children's thinking. The findings suggest that many children continue to hold deficit perceptions about SEND, rooted in medical model perspectives. However, carefully designed programmes which enable children to consider first‐person experiences, and encourage the deconstruction of ableist discourses, can promote more flexible understanding and progressive attitudes towards SEND in childhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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33. Agency and voice: Using critical theory to reposition children from refugee backgrounds when considering their transition to school in Australia.
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Green, Jennifer, Neilsen‐Hewett, Cathrine, Howard, Steven, and Mekonnen, Tebeje Molla
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REFUGEE children , *SOCIAL theory , *CRITICAL theory , *CULTURAL capital , *EARLY childhood education , *AGENCY theory - Abstract
A wide range of benefits are associated with children's positive transition to school. Applying a critical sociological lens in understanding transitions allows for cycles of sociocultural inequality to be challenged and disrupted. This is of particular importance for understanding transition experiences of children from socially demarcated groups, such as children from refugee backgrounds. This paper outlines how critical sociological theory can be used to identify settler‐colonial ideology and to unpack how children are understood and positioned within their broader sociocultural context, and how this understanding can lead to a strength‐based approach that recognises the rights, agency and voice of children and their families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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34. Dilemma of family education for hearing‐impaired children in China: Responsibility or evasion?
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Xiong, Xiaomeng and Li, Yan
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HEARING impaired children , *FAMILY roles , *SOCIAL services , *SOCIAL support , *CHILD development - Abstract
Due to the difficulty in identifying and monitoring factors that cause hearing impairment during pregnancy, large numbers of new hearing‐impaired children are born every year. Children's hearing impairment can have an impact on all aspects of the family. Family education, as an important element of family function, plays a key role in the growth and development of hearing‐impaired children and in improving the interaction between hearing‐impaired children and their parents. Based on a qualitative study in central China, this article examines the current situation and dilemmas of family education for hearing‐impaired children. Results show that families of hearing‐impaired children generally have a tendency to avoid family education responsibilities, as demonstrated by the lack of family roles, low participation in specific family education, absence of communication and care functions and a laissez‐faire approach to bringing up their children. This evasive tendency cannot simply be attributed to parental irresponsibility; rather, it is the result of a combination of four factors and is closely related to insufficient social support. In the short term, a two‐pronged approach is needed: strengthening the government's responsibility and rendering assistance for families with hearing‐impaired children on the one hand, and establishing reliable links between home and school to provide professional support on the other. In the long run, it is necessary to build up a social support mechanism with social work intervention. This paper puts forward the need for collaboration among multiple parties and a family‐centred assistance model to promote a shift from the tendency towards evasion to active assumption of family responsibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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35. Environmental justice in education for climate action: Case studies from Perú and Uganda.
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Wilder, Rachel, Nuwategeka, Expedito, Monge, Carlos, and Talavera, Alithu Bazan
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CLIMATE justice , *CRITICAL consciousness , *YOUNG adults , *ENVIRONMENTAL justice , *CLIMATE change mitigation - Abstract
This paper draws on participatory research with secondary school learners in Perú and Uganda that shows how environmental and social (in) justices are interwoven and embedded in young people's experiences of the natural world. These experiences contrast with learners' accounts of environmental education in secondary schooling, in which the notion of justice is comparatively, and therefore conspicuously, absent. We employ four distinct but overlapping conceptualisations of justice—biocentric and anthropocentric notions of environmental justice, including climate justice, and epistemic justice—to analyse how learners understand responsibilities for climate action, and what change they anticipate and hope for in the future. Observing that ethical frameworks enable learners to make sense of the complexity of human and more‐than‐human relationships within natural ecosystems, we argue that a multiple justice framework in formal schooling is needed. A multiple justice approach to environmental education could support learners to develop a critical consciousness in and about the natural world, and to imagine and be motivated to act in support of a better future. Our findings are based on accounts from 123 secondary school learners in eight schools—four schools in northern Uganda and four in diverse regions of Perú. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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36. Children's agency within digital play and learning: Exploring the impact of shared play experiences on parent–child negotiations.
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Murcia, Karen, Cross, Emma, Seitz, Julia, and Lowe, Geoffrey
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DIGITAL technology , *DIGITAL learning , *PARENTS , *NEGOTIATION , *ANXIETY - Abstract
Children actively participate in socially constructing their digitised childhoods. However, parents often struggle to understand and manage the relationship between children and digital technology, especially with reference to children's agency and creativity with digital devices. This paper reports on the impact on parent–child negotiations of a 10‐week programme of digital technology experiences whereby parents actively co‐played with their children. Interviews revealed a gradual transformation in parent beliefs, from anxiety to appreciation of negotiated agency and creative digital practice. From this finding, three guiding principles for parents are offered based around the concepts of attention, interest and interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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37. Constructing child participation in early years classrooms: An exploration from Wales.
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Waters‐Davies, Jane, Murphy, Alison, Chicken, Sarah, Tyrie, Jacky, and Clement, Jennifer
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SCHOOL environment , *POLICY sciences , *PSYCHOLOGY of teachers , *QUALITATIVE research , *HUMAN beings , *HUMAN rights , *SURVEYS , *COLLEGE teacher attitudes - Abstract
This paper addresses the research problem that arises from evidence that, despite supportive policy contexts, enactment of pedagogies that attend to young children's participation rights in classroom settings is highly variable. We report our exploration of the ways in which the child, and child participation are constructed in early education settings in Wales, where legislation and policy around children's rights has been a key feature of the Welsh Government agenda post‐devolution. Data were gathered via a qualitative online bilingual (English and Welsh) survey offered via email to teachers of children aged 3–7 in Wales. The overarching research question of the project was: How do teachers of children 3–7 years understand and enact the notion of participation as it relates to the children they teach? Data analysis focused on research participants' apparent constructions of the children they teach and their capabilities, and unpacked the ways in which these constructions relate to the reported opportunities for participation. The discussion is informed by the notion of the threshold concept, described by Meyer & Land as akin to a portal that opens new and previously inaccessible ways of thinking. We consider the extent to which the conceptual construction of the capable child maybe a threshold concept in shaping the realisation of children's participation rights in educative contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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38. 'What if someone had told me that as a kid?': Professionals' perspectives on their personal experiences of family‐related childhood adversity and their supportive practice.
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Michelson, Stina
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CHILDREN'S health , *SOCIAL workers , *PROFESSIONAL practice , *INTERVIEWING , *SOCIAL services , *FAMILY relations , *EXPERIENCE , *THEMATIC analysis , *PATIENT-professional relations , *SOCIAL support , *NEEDS assessment , *ADVERSE childhood experiences , *HOPE , *WELL-being - Abstract
The aim of this study is to explore how professionals with personal experiences of family‐related childhood adversity describe and make sense of the relationship between their experience and their supportive practice. It builds on interviews with 10 professionals working within two Swedish non‐governmental organizations offering support to children experiencing family‐related adversity. The findings show that the participants draw upon their own experiences when identifying children's need for individual support, recognition, belonging, knowledge and hope. Together, these five aspects can be said to form an experience‐informed narrative about children's support needs. The paper concludes by suggesting that the concept of a 'professional peer' may be a useful term for encompassing the dual role of professionals who have personal experiences of family‐related childhood adversity and who provide support to children in similar situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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39. I am not going to lie; some people do not even want to talk: Co‐design with vulnerable groups affected by child criminal exploitation.
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Maxwell, Nina and Corliss, Cindy
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VICTIMS , *CRIME , *RESEARCH funding , *SOCIAL justice , *CHILD abuse , *AT-risk people , *PARENT attitudes , *EXPERIENCE , *HUMAN rights , *INFORMED consent (Medical law) , *COVID-19 pandemic - Abstract
Co‐production values lived experience as it promotes individuals as assets and offers insight where little is known about a problem. This paper critically considers the pragmatic approach to co‐design adopted in Wales with young people and parents affected by child criminal exploitation during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It suggests that combining co‐design with data collection facilitated the recruitment, sensitisation and facilitation of vulnerable groups. By placing informed consent at the forefront of co‐design, young people and parents decided how they wanted their voices heard. Further, combining data gathering with co‐design contextualised solution development within their lived experiences. However, embedding these solutions into policy and practice remains subject to existing power imbalances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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40. Coming of age in a pandemic era: The interdependence of life spheres through the lens of social integration of care leavers in Quebec during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
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Fernandes, Victor, Niang, Anta, Diaz, Rosita Vargas, and Goyette, Martin
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RESEARCH funding , *INTERVIEWING , *FOSTER home care , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *SOCIAL integration , *THEMATIC analysis , *SOCIAL networks , *RESEARCH methodology , *SOCIAL support , *DATA analysis software , *COMPARATIVE studies , *COVID-19 pandemic , *TRANSITION to adulthood - Abstract
This paper explores how the COVID‐19 pandemic affected care leavers in Quebec, a social group already facing obstacles to social integration. Semi‐structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 48 participants and analysed through Castel's zones of vulnerability model. Results suggest that youth who entered the pandemic with more vulnerabilities were more affected by it in all dimensions of their lives. However, results also suggest that the presence of a strong social support network protects even the most vulnerable ones from being overly afflicted, highlighting the importance of interventions that reinforce care leaver's social support network during times of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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41. 'Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?' The nature and purpose of secure children's homes.
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Andow, Caroline
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RESEARCH funding , *INVESTMENTS , *ETHNOLOGY research , *HOME environment , *UNCERTAINTY , *TREATMENT effectiveness , *COGNITION disorders , *THEORY , *LIBERTY , *PUBLIC administration , *ACHIEVEMENT , *ACTIVITIES of daily living - Abstract
Secure children's homes are locked institutions that deprive children of their liberty. The government are investing significantly in these homes, yet there remains a lack of clarity about their nature and purpose. Drawing on data generated through a substantial ethnography in one secure children's home in England, this paper uses Goffman's (1961) theorising as a conceptual lens to view the institution. It concludes that ambiguity and confusion about what these institutions are, and what they seek to achieve, impacts negatively on the experience of everyday life within. Clarity is needed urgently to improve experiences and to enable the assessment of outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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42. 'We live here and play here, we should have a say': An exploration of children's perceptions of place‐making in the Market community, Belfast.
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McAteer, Benedict, Loudon, Emma, and Higgins, Kathryn
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PLAY , *INTERVIEWING , *COMMUNITIES , *RESEARCH methodology , *METROPOLITAN areas , *SOCIAL networks , *PUBLIC health , *PRACTICAL politics , *NEIGHBORHOOD characteristics , *BUILT environment , *CHILD behavior , *CHILDREN - Abstract
Children learn through interaction with their surroundings, meaning that their experiences of place directly contribute to their personal development. Despite this, the needs of the youth are rarely factored into development plans. This is a major obstacle to the sustainable and inclusive development of places. Examining potential pathways to correct this issue, this paper presents the findings of research conducted with young people from the Market area of Belfast. The research engaged with two groups (n = 11) in a participatory investigation of how young people engage with the built environment. Using several participatory methods, including narrative walkabouts, mapping exercises and semi‐structured group interviews, the children engaged as co‐researchers. We link to idea of 'third places' to frame our analysis, demonstrating how children in the Market community have strong opinions of how space is, and should be, designed and managed. We reveal interesting dynamics regarding the children's perceived exclusion from the city centre and concerns about how poor planning is harming their community's public health. We conclude by reflecting upon some of the children's proposed solutions, as well as by presenting two outcomes of our study that hint at the potential future role of young people in co‐designing the built environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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43. Evaluation of route choice for walking commutes to school and street space optimization in old urban areas of China based on a child‐friendly orientation: The case of the Wuyi Park area in Zhengzhou.
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Haotian, Han, Jing, Huang, Xinfeng, Jia, Jiantao, Zhang, and Jianwei, Guo
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CHILDREN'S health , *ARCHITECTURE , *STATISTICAL models , *ENVIRONMENTAL health , *RESEARCH funding , *SCHOOLS , *CHILDREN'S accident prevention , *WALKING , *TRANSPORTATION , *METROPOLITAN areas , *SCHOOL children , *CHILDREN - Abstract
Walking to school promotes the health of school‐aged children. The safety and comfort of the walking environment are lacking in China due to the prioritization of motorized traffic. This paper focuses on the choice of walking routes for school‐aged children commuting in old urban areas of China. A walking route choice model is constructed by combining a weighted Voronoi diagram and the closest facility analysis in ArcMap. The walking route choices of school‐aged children from home to school and the flows along routes are analysed. Based on the model results, targeted design suggestions for updating existing street spaces are proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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44. A causeway to impact: A proposed new integrated framework for intergenerational community‐based participatory action research.
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Loudon, Emma, Neary, Joanne, McAteer, Ben, Higgins, Kathryn, and Chapman, Christopher
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SOCIAL capital , *HUMAN research subjects , *EMPIRICAL research , *COMMUNITIES , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *CONCEPTUAL structures , *ACTION research , *RESEARCH methodology , *STAKEHOLDER analysis , *INTERGENERATIONAL relations , *PATIENT participation , *ADOLESCENCE , *CHILDREN , *ADULTS - Abstract
Over recent decades there has been growing interest in amplifying children and young people's views (CYP) within policy debates. Despite this, they are rarely invited to participate in key policy‐making discussions, and when they are, this tends to be tokenistic. This paper presents an intergenerational methodological framework 'The Causeway Approach', inspired by the mythology of the Giant's Causeway, which addresses the challenge of CYP's voices being drowned out by adult stakeholders. This contextualised approach has significant potential to benefit CYP and communities through capacity building, strengthening of social capital and fostering intergenerational connections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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45. Cultivating child and youth decision‐making: The principles and practices of the ReSPECT approach to professional development.
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Michail, Samia, Grace, Rebekah, Ng, Jonathan, and Shier, Harry
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CORPORATE culture , *SELF-efficacy , *PROFESSIONAL practice , *RESEARCH funding , *DECISION making , *HUMAN rights , *PROFESSIONS , *PROFESSIONAL employee training , *ATTITUDES of medical personnel , *DECISION making in children , *COMMITMENT (Psychology) , *PATIENT participation , *PROFESSIONAL competence , *MANAGEMENT - Abstract
Participatory approaches are important to ensuring that the involvement of children in decision‐making is normalised in service provision. Participation work requires that professionals have well‐developed engagement skills, and a commitment to the right of the child or young person to participate. Effective participatory approaches also require that organisations provide active support for child‐centred practice. The Reconceptualising Services from the Perspectives of Experienced Children and Teens (ReSPECT) approach is an Australian professional development (PD) program that addresses these key aspects of participation work. It offers professionals a way to:(1) increase their awareness of the complex issues, challenges and benefits surrounding participation; and (2) develop a sense of empowerment and competence in the 'doing' of participation work. The PD program encourages professionals to understand their own position in relation to participation work with children, develop bespoke strategies that account for their unique practice context and assemble support structures that can maintain their participation strategies beyond the training. The principles and practices of the ReSPECT PD program are outlined and positioned within the existing literature on theoretical and practice approaches. The paper contributes to critical debate on the mechanisms that can lead to changes in professional practice and organisational culture, for the meaningful engagement of children as stakeholders in decision‐making. It is shared as a way of supporting others designing professional development approaches for child and youth decision‐making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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46. Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach.
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Monk, David, Walton, Elizabeth, Madziva, Roda, Opio, George, Kruisselbrink, Annemaaike, and Openjuru, George Ladaah
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EDUCATION of refugees , *PSYCHOLOGY of children with disabilities , *RESEARCH funding , *EMPIRICAL research , *FAMILY attitudes , *CHILDREN - Abstract
This paper draws on empirical evidence from a 3‐year research project in Northern Uganda examining the educational experiences of refugees with disabilities. The authors present the compounded and interrelated challenges children with disabilities and their families face as they navigate their educational experiences and seek out opportunities to live well. The authors seek to make a contribution towards improving educational experiences by first highlighting compounding challenges faced by refugee children living with disabilities and their families and related policy gaps that have ramifications for refugee children's access to education in particular, and second by expanding discourse about refugee children with disabilities agency in relation to these liminal gaps and the impact the gaps have for accessing education. The authors use Powell and McGrath's (in Skills for human development: Transforming vocational education and training, Routledge, 2019; Handbook of vocational education and training, Springer, 2019) concept of critical capabilities and relationality, to expand Klocker's (in Global perspectives on rural childhood and youth: Young rural lives, Routledge, 2007) notions of thick and thin agency and to interrogate refugee children living with disabilities' agency in relation to education opportunities and rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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47. ‘It is intimidating going into your first job’: Young teens and workplace safety.
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Raby, Rebecca, Sheppard, Lindsay C., and Lehmann, Wolfgang
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YOUNG adults , *INDUSTRIAL safety , *YOUNG workers , *CORPORATE culture , *TIME pressure - Abstract
Drawing on qualitative focus groups and interviews, this paper draws on participatory and relational approaches to explore how prospective and very new workers in their early teens in Canada talk about and navigate workplace safety. We foreground our young participants' discussions and safety management strategies to discuss their shared and sometimes narrow understanding of unsafe work; their mixed, and often limited, experiences of safety training; and the individualized avenues they prioritize to deal with potential and concrete safety issues. Countering our participants' inclination towards individualized solutions, we focus on how these young workers are embedded in relationships with others as well as the material world, including workplace cultures; networks and hierarchies of people; specific materials, time and time pressures; and safety‐related policies. Such a relational lens can in turn guide how we think about fostering workplace safety in ways that challenge more individualized approaches, specifically through recognizing interdependencies that shape how young people think about workplace safety; expanding beyond unidirectional, individualized educational strategies; and favouring shared self‐advocacy, especially with older workers, including through unionization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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48. Re‐conceptualisation of school bullying from a children's rights' perspective: The illustrative case of the Cypriot educational context.
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Kaloyirou, Chrystalla and Vong, Sou Kuan
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BULLYING prevention ,ANTI-bullying laws ,SOCIALIZATION ,CHILDREN'S rights ,SOCIAL support ,SCHOOL discipline ,CHILDREN'S accident prevention ,SCHOOLS ,SCHOOL administration ,CONCEPTS - Abstract
School bullying is a matter of global concern. Paradoxically, it becomes complicated, when the expansion of a longer period of universal free education shows the commitment to safeguard children's right to education. This paper interrogates the ways in which school, as a significant site of socialisation, can safeguard children's rights, and function as a safe haven, free from bullying. Stemming from a children's rights perspective, this paper employs the Cypriot educational context as an illustrative case to demonstrate in what ways the problem of school bullying can be re‐conceptualised in the lens of human rights, and to address the challenges that emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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49. Children at Risk in the 20th and 21st Century.
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Mochmann, Ingvill C. and Kleinau, Elke
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VIOLENCE prevention ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,CHILD abuse ,CHILD welfare ,DEVELOPING countries ,HUMAN rights ,HUMANITARIANISM ,POVERTY ,RISK perception ,SELF-efficacy ,SERIAL publications ,SLAVERY ,TERRORISM ,WAR ,DEVELOPED countries ,GENDER ,HUMAN trafficking ,AT-risk people ,PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability - Abstract
An introduction to the journal is presented that addresses various groups of children in developing and developed countries that are characterised by wars and conflicts and children who grow up in stable and democratic states, including irregular adoption practices in Chile, the experiences of children in Norway who collaborated with the Germans during the occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1945, and comparison of two trials of the International Court where children were born of sexual violence.
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- 2019
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50. Operationalising children's participation: Competing understandings of the policy to practice 'gap'.
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Michail, Samia, Baird, Kelly, Fattore, Tobia, and Grace, Rebekah
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QUALITATIVE research ,DECISION making ,CHILD welfare ,RESEARCH funding ,THEMATIC analysis - Abstract
There is widespread discourse and policy on children's participation in decision‐making. This is not matched with an equal level of implementation in practice. This qualitative research explores the policy to practice gap with senior decision makers in the child protection system in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Their reflections on the challenges associated with translating the participation principles into practice are deconstructed to understand the complex and overlapping ways in which participation is perceived. The research data indicate there are competing understandings of participation at play, depending on the actor, their role and organisation. This paper suggests that genuine participation in practice relies on bridging the epistemic differences and interests of different stakeholder groups who are all critical to achieving children's participation in service decision‐making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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