Children's book illustrations from China and Ukraine: Comparison of different formats
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 bo...
Source: Children and Society - March 30, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Hanping Wang Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Indicators of contact visit quality in non ‐kinship foster care: An observational checklist
This study explores whether the frequency and diversity of behaviours observed during contact visits may be used as indicators of visit quality. We observed 20 contact visits and quantified the frequency and diversity of behaviours for both parent and child, classified as positive or negative with respect to the child's well-being. Quality of visits was classified based on a list of parent and child behaviours and two indicators (diversity and frequency), to create two observational checklists and calculate an overall quality index. This observational tool will enable identification of areas where birth parents or their ch...
Source: Children and Society - March 30, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Miguel A. Garc ía‐Martín,
Isabel M. Bernedo,
María D. Salas,
Lucía González‐Pasarín Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Disability and homeschooling: Parents experiences in Kazakhstan
AbstractThere are several special education provisions for children with disabilities in Kazakhstan, including home education which is characterized as an alternative model of education to mainstream and private educational organizations. Hence, parents become the central figure in managing the home education process as the meeting special needs of children depends on their knowledge and experience. The present study explores parents ’ experiences in home educating a child with special needs in one town outside the capital city of Nursultan. The data was collected through face-to-face interviews with six parents in a qua...
Source: Children and Society - March 24, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Kairat Mukashev,
Michelle Somerton Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges: A focus group study
AbstractReports indicate a decrease in youth mental health in Sweden but at the same time research suggests that what is interpreted as mental ill-health could be considered everyday challenges by young people themselves. The distribution of mental health and illness among young people is uneven based on inequities related to factors such as race, gender and socioeconomic status. Sweden in particular is a country with large socioeconomic inequities in youth mental health and in school results, compared to other European countries. The aim of this study was to explore young people's experiences of the role of race, gender a...
Source: Children and Society - March 24, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Helena Gard,
Karin Ensk är,
Karin Ingvarsdotter,
Gabriella Elisabeth Isma,
Elisabeth Mangrio Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Ending racial disproportionality in child welfare: A systematic review
This study sought to identify and characterize interventions and/or approaches utilized in child welfare for reducing racial disproportionality by conducting a systematic review following PRISMA guidelines. After reviewing over 1000 studies across eight databases, only three studies met criteria for inclusion in this systematic review. The articles all addressed prevention strategies aimed to address risk factors and subjectivity, while employing interventions across both family and organizational/community levels. Three themes emerged, community-wide targeted intervention, culturally responsive family preservation, and ag...
Source: Children and Society - March 23, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: April L. Murphy,
Daniel A. Boamah,
Erin T. Warfel,
Austin Griffiths,
David Roehm Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Body satisfaction and self ‐perception profile: Reliability and validity analyses of the Children's body image scale for Turkish children
This study aims to conduct (1) a validity and reliability analysis ofthe Children's Body Image Scale (CBIS) adapted to the Turkish culture and (2) the relationship between body satisfaction, self-worth and physical appearance. The psychometric properties of the CBIS were examined on a sample of 473 (211 girls and 262 boys) children aged 8 –11 (mean 9.38). The data obtained from boys and girls were divided into two groups according to grade and analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The reliability level of the scale was at an acceptable level, and a statistically significant relationship was found between...
Source: Children and Society - March 23, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Çiğdem Keven Akliman,
Mehmet Avcı,
İlknur Kiraz Avcı Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Children's ages of consent to non ‐urgent heart surgery: The views of two paediatric cardiology teams
AbstractPaediatric cardiology practitioners and related experts report unusually young ages when they begin to inform children about their non-urgent heart surgery and begin to respect children's consent or refusal. Research methods included observations in two paediatric cardiology units, audio-recorded interviews with 45 experts, and qualitative data analysis. Significantly younger ages were cited than are usually recommended in the clinical and legal literature. Interviewed practitioners took seriously children's consent to or refusal of a heart transplant from around 6 years, and a child's firm refusal of induction ...
Source: Children and Society - March 23, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Priscilla Alderson,
Hannah Bellsham ‐Revell,
Liz King,
Trisha Vigneswaran,
Jo Wray Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Empowerment evaluation: Key methodology aspects from participatory research and intervention with Roma girls
AbstractEmpowerment evaluation (EE) is an especially useful tool that enables people to be involved in both individual and group transformation processes, in particular in contexts characterized by social inequality. By using a participatory approach, this methodological article analyses an Empowerment Evaluation experience within the European RoMoMatteR project. This project, which focuses on the notion of reproductive justice, has involved a group of Roma girls from Alicante (Spain), in a context characterized by discrimination based on ethnicity, gender and age, as well as by structural determinants such as social exclu...
Source: Children and Society - March 22, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Francisco Franc és‐García,
Daniel La Parra‐Casado,
María José Sanchís‐Ramón,
María Félix Rodríguez Camacho,
Diana Gil‐González Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The sleeping voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self‐help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual
AbstractPutting children to bed is an everyday practice but is under-studied in childhood research. Findings from this study of eight popular self-help parenting books for 2-to-5-year-olds show that the books rarely, if ever, consider that children have voice/s, or social competence. Where the child does appear, it was to be silenced. Centrally, the authors push failure and responsibility onto parents. We found advice crystallised around either attachment-led approaches, emphasising emotional availability, or behaviourist approaches. The discourses of sleep the books harness are professionalised external lenses. We explore...
Source: Children and Society - March 21, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Lexie Scherer,
Amanda Norman Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life
AbstractThe article presents a metasynthesis of qualitative studies, which have described and analysed adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional contexts such as psychiatric care, child welfare and juvenile justice. The study finds that coercion is an ambiguous practice, mainly used for protection and treatment purposes, while it is often experienced as punitive. Acknowledging the ambiguities of coercion can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of practice and experience, which is useful for reducing the harmful effects of coercion and strengthening participatory methods of care and treatment. (Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - March 21, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Ann-Karina Henriksen,
Christine Øye Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Girls, sexuality and playground ‐assemblages in a South African primary school
AbstractInspired 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 serve s to reinforce them. Interventi...
Source: Children and Society - March 8, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Raksha Janak,
Deevia Bhana Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Paths of disclosure – The process of sharing experiences of child sexual abuse
The objective was to explore how children and young people retrospectively described disclosure of child sexual abuse in relation to their own agency. Data consists of semi-structured interviews with 14 participants that had disclosed sexual abuse during childhood. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and analysed with thematical analysis. Participants' descriptions of their own agency in relation to disclosure of child sexual abuse, shows that both silence and disclosurecan be active choices. By offering children choices trusting them to make decisions for themselves, their sense of control can be increased. (Sourc...
Source: Children and Society - March 7, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Åsa Landberg,
Anna Kaldal,
Maria Eriksson Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Being disliked and bullied: A case revealing interplay between peer status and bullying
AbstractTo better understand chronic bullying, this school ethnographical case study mapped peer rejection processes that fuel bullying. The study focused on a case of a victimized 13-year-old girl and analysed observations of the classroom social interactions, interviews with teachers and students' essays. Thematic analysis elucidated how students, together with the class teacher, constructed the girl as having annoying personal characteristics, being a misfit to the group, and as being on the bottom of the classroom hierarchy. Next, it suggested how these processes made her more vulnerable to being bullied and not defend...
Source: Children and Society - March 6, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Radek Vorl íček,
Lenka Kollerová Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system
AbstractWhile the right of children to be involved in decisions that concern them has been widely recognised, they are currently barely involved in guideline development in healthcare. This paper aims to explore what a future guideline development system in which children are meaningfully involved might look like and to reflect on the transition required to achieve this. We used a systems innovation perspective, exploring child participation within its systemic context and complexity. To this end, we conducted 24 interviews with various actors, about their ideas on and experiences with child participation in guideline deve...
Source: Children and Society - March 3, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Simone Harmsen,
Jacqueline E. W. Broerse,
Carina A. C. M. Pittens Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Art ‐based research to explore children's lived experiences of dysgraphia
In this study, five children diagnosed with dysgraphia used art-based research to depict their experiences of dysgraphia. The children described the impossibility of transferring ideas from head to paper and the difficult emotions associated with writing. The results highlighted a symbiosis between writing and identity, with dysgraphia adversely impacting the children's identity development. The study highlights the value of using art to communicate children's perceptions, aligned with inclusive practices. The insights shared offers caregivers, educators, and others scope to develop affirmative writing practices. (Source: ...
Source: Children and Society - March 2, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Elvira Kalenjuk,
Sue Wilson,
Pearl Subban,
Stella Laletas Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
