Machinic assemblages —The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency
AbstractThis paper presents an account of how children's sense of agency is produced in machinic assemblages. The ethnographic data used in this study originated in one elementary school classroom. By utilising children's own expressions of their agency and by examining the machinic assemblages in which these expressions were produced, we demonstrate that school policies are not merely a background for schools' mundane practices. Rather, when combined with other elements in a school setting, policies have heterogeneous consequences for children's sense of agency. (Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - April 20, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Anna Kristiina Kokko,
Maiju Paananen,
Laura Hirsto Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Child ‐safe organizations and the ethics of empowered inclusion
AbstractThe emergence of the ‘child-safe’ organization requires close attention to practices that contribute to children's wellbeing and safety. Based on data collected in schools, residential care and disability services, this article argues for a more nuanced understanding of the ethical frameworks informing practice in t hese settings. Findings suggest both young people and adults predominantly describe ethical practice in terms of intersubjective relations. This ethical relationality is understood, less in terms of vertical responsibilities of care (largely the domain of adults and shaped by institutional norms), a...
Source: Children and Society - April 19, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Anne Graham,
Antonia Canosa,
John Wall,
Patrick Thomas Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Children and Society - April 17, 2023 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Life in a Cambodian orphanage: A childhood journey for new opportunities By Kathie Carpenter, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2021. pp. 224. $33.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978 ‐1‐9788‐0484‐5
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Source: Children and Society - April 17, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Rahul Singh Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
The Sociology of Bullying: Power, Status and Aggression Among Adolescents by Christopher Donoghue (ed), New York: New York University Press, 2022, ISBN 9781479803903, 344 pp, $30.00 (pb)
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Source: Children and Society - April 17, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Camilla Forsberg Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
‘You cut off a part of your body to feed your family’ Parental perspectives on parent–child separation in the context of child domestic work: A qualitative study from Karnataka, India
This study is the first of its kind to expl ore parental experiences of separation from their child/ren in the context of live-in domestic work and explores notions on the existence of choice in decision-making, and sheds light on how practices of separation are interlinked with socioeconomic factors, societal hierarchy and cultural practices of parenting that lead to understanding and coping with the ensuing separation. It concludes by identifying some policy implications that are relevant for organizations seeking to re-unify and reintegrate children with their families after a period of separation. (Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - April 17, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Namratha Ramanan,
Ilse Derluyn,
Peter Adriaenssens,
Lucia De Haene Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Role conflicts of preschool teachers: From children's perspectives in a changing cultural setting in Taiwan
This study investigated children's perspectives on preschool teachers' roles in Taiwan's changing cultural setting. This study attempted to examine how aspects of culture and time are interwoven in children's lives. Data were collected through children's drawings, the photographs they captured and drawing-photo elicitation interviews. The data were analysed to identify the eight types of teachers' roles and the time points at which the children observed the roles. The children noted that their teachers were ‘regulators’; however, they also discovered teachers' interactive and democratic roles in less structured setting...
Source: Children and Society - April 12, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Yuling Su,
Ya ‐hui Chung Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
‘Them’ in an abnormal world: Media construction and responsibility attribution of left‐behind children in rural China
This study offers empirical support for the role of news media in shaping public perceptions through their construction and framing processes. We highlight the need to identify structural factors that affect media portrayals of rural families and call for more social support for left-behind children. (Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - April 11, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Wan Huang, Wenxue Zou Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Diversifying youth temporal orientations during educational transitions in China
This study explores the diversity of Chinese youths' orientations towards time by addressing how they practise agency, situated within the temporal, familial and gender matrices. We surveyed and interviewed young people at a county-seat lower secondary school in North China and identified three temporal orientations: ‘long-term planners’, ‘seizers of the day’ and ‘compromisers’. The findings challenge the conventional understanding of Chinese youth temporal orientations as homogeneous by identifying the differentiations and complexities when navigating their transition to upper secondary education. (Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - April 11, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Ziyu Wang,
Fengshu Liu,
Ilse Julkunen Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit
AbstractChildren and young people's (CYP) life chances depend heavily on family resources. This paper reports a rapid review of qualitative/mixed method studies about Universal Credit undertaken with CYP in the UK; subsequently expanded to include additional descriptors of economic disadvantage. Sixteen studies were reviewed; narrative synthesis was used to explore themes. Most recruited CYP with experience of economic disadvantage; none explicitly reported perspectives of CYP experiencing disability or rurality. Findings show growing up in poverty has significant, negative impacts on health and well-being, causing feeling...
Source: Children and Society - April 8, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Elaine Bidmead,
Catherine El Zerbi,
Mandy Cheetham,
Sally Frost Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The impact of group singing on children's subjective well ‐being: Mixed methods research
AbstractImproving the well-being of children has been widely discussed, yet research-exploring strategies aimed at improving this in school-based settings is still an emerging field of research. This mixed methods study investigated the impact of a singing intervention on the subjective well-being of a class of 27 children aged 8 –9. Over the course of 2 weeks, the class took part in 20 minutes of daily group singing with a focus on learning popular music that they chose. The sessions were delivered by a generalist primary teacher who had previously worked as a music specialist. In measuring children's subjective wel...
Source: Children and Society - April 6, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: J. Davies,
S. Bentham,
F. Duah Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial, childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability
AbstractThere are two key questions consistently raised by children and youth since the onset of the school strikes for climate in 2018 in the Global North:Why study for a future, which may not be there? Why spend a lot of effort to become educated, when our governments are not listening to the educated? (conf.fridaysforfuture.org, n.d). While the same questions are shared by young climate activists from the Global South, there are other interrelated economic realities that echo the disappointment, anger, disillusionment, desperation, and frustration driving those utterances in their socio-political contexts. Comparative i...
Source: Children and Society - April 5, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Tanu Biswas Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The need to belong: Girls' trajectory perspectives on friendship forming in the school setting
This article is based on pair and group interviews with 40 girls in lower secondary school in Sweden and examines their perspectives on friendship forming. Constructivist grounded theory was used throughout the study. The findings address girls' trajectory perspectives on friendship forming and how the school setting, gender norms and social exclusion anxiety influence their friendships over time. In particular, they highlight a fear of being excluded as associated with the school setting. This fear shows how friendship forming and bullying connect to each other by highlighting how the need to socially belong is the most i...
Source: Children and Society - April 1, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Camilla Forsberg Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Life in a Cambodian orphanage: A childhood journey for new opportunities By
Kathie Carpenter
, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2021. pp. 224. $33.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978 ‐1‐9788‐0484‐5
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Source: Children and Society - March 31, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Rahul Singh Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
‘How dare you call that playground banter?!’: Service provider perspectives on coercive control and young people
This article presents service provider perspectives on young people and coercive control. Findings illustrate that young people need help from service providers to identify coercive control whilst simultaneously, some service providers minimise young people's experiences using an adult focused frame of reference. This has the potential to deny their agency and render young people's experiences invisible. We highlight the need for education on the specific issues young people face including how that might differ from adults. Finally, we examine the paradoxical role of social media as having transformative possibilities yet ...
Source: Children and Society - March 31, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Victoria Burton,
Sin éad Gormally Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
