Adolescent trajectories in situations of adversity: A mixed ‐method approach to understanding educational and leadership outcomes
AbstractThe context in which youths grow up influences the lives they are capable of living. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study analyses the risk and promotive factors associated with educational and leadership outcomes in Colombian youth. Results suggest that poverty and inadequate social services are key obstacles to the attainment of positive school and leadership outcomes, while parental involvement is among the most important promotive factors associated with such outcomes. Our qualitative findings show that teachers' and peers' motivational support promotes adolescents' positive leadership and educational tra...
Source: Children and Society - December 20, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Sandra Garc ía,
Darío Maldonado,
Amy Ritterbusch,
Lucas Marín Llanes,
Melissa Arena Lucía Simbaqueba,
Jorge Cuartas Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Children and Society - December 16, 2022 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Children's services and the COVID ‐19 pandemic in Italy: A study with educators and parents
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptive changes across different life experiences essential to children's growth and development, including early childcare services and schools, thus threatening precious opportunities for children in early childhood to learn. The pandemic has also undermined the collaborative and alliance relationship between childcare services and families which has been widely considered an important aspect of modern services. This paper presents and discusses results from a mixed-method exploratory study with early childcare services for children between 0 and 6 years in Italy in 2021, in...
Source: Children and Society - December 13, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Maria Letizia Bosoni Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Teenage Dreams: Girlhood sexualities in the U.S. culture wars Charlie Jeffries, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022, ISBN 9781978806795, 226 pp., $29.95 (paperback)
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Source: Children and Society - December 13, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Halle Singh Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Learning from Central American migrant children in ‐transit within Mexico: A funds of knowledge approach
AbstractMigration can have long-term impacts on children's well-being, identity, academic aspirations and success. Children's voices, however, are often absent from educational scholarship and practice. Employing participatory storytelling methods, this study explores what informal learnings or ‘funds of knowledge’ Honduran children develop while in-transit within Mexico. The findings present how children cared for their communities, used technology to develop transnational interests and ties, developed complex understandings of global culture and expanded on understandings of geograph y and space. Migration is posed a...
Source: Children and Society - December 13, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Maxie Gluckman Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Education and the social mobility conundrum: An examination of the ‘psychosocial and academic trust alienation theory’ in the context of disadvantaged students in the UK secondary education sector
AbstractThe purpose of this investigation was to identify original insights into the educational social mobility conundrum in the UK via examination of the current body of empirical and existing literature associated with disadvantaged secondary school students. The lens of the ‘psychosocial and academic trust alienation theory’ (PATA) has been applied to explore themes of educational social mobility disadvantage, disengagement and alienation and trauma and trust. This systematic literature review followed PRISMA guidelines, with the SPIDER model adopted to demonstrate the search strategy employed which identifiedN =...
Source: Children and Society - December 10, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Caroline Sarah Jones Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Young adult carers —Transitioning to adulthood or to adult caring?
AbstractSocial care policy in the UK emphasises the importance of supporting young adult carers to make positive transitions to adulthood. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study which explored whether young adult carers' services in England are facilitating transitions. The research found that young adult carers' services were endeavouring to raise young adult carers' aspirations and achieve personalised outcomes, in line with the Care Act 2014. However, formal provision for young adult carers in England, in the main, designates them as adult carers. Yet, young adult carers need to have sufficient opportuniti...
Source: Children and Society - December 3, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Geraldine Boyle,
Elizabeth Mozdiak Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Play and learn: Children's agency through the COVID ‐19 pandemic in Mozambique
AbstractSocial distancing, one of the measures adopted in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, profoundly impacted on the lives of children. The consequences were, however, not homogenous. By focusing on the daily practices of 41 Mozambican children aged 3 –10, we consider how differences in socioeconomic backgrounds led children to respond to the social restrictions in ways that made sense to them. Inspired by Abebe (2019), we identify how the interruptions of daily routines enabled specific instances of agency on children's part. These, we argue, produce new forms of continuity. (Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - December 3, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Marina Di Napoli Pastore,
Francesca Salvi Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The transformative potential of LGBTQ+ Children's picture books By
Jennifer Miller
. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2022, ISBN 9781496840004. 270 pp., US$25 (pb)
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Source: Children and Society - December 2, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Gabriel Duckels Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
How photos can affect children's perception of animal welfare: A study involving pupils from Portugal and Spain
This study aimed to identify perceptions of animal welfare in pupils from Portugal and Spain. Two versions of a questionnaire were designed. Each included one of a pair of photos for the same context, three out of six, intended to generate a positive perception of animal welfare. The results were similar in both countries and by sex, supporting the idea that the framing of photos can manipulate the children's perception of animal welfare. The importance of the development of visual literacy in children, as a way to better interpret the implicit and explicit messages proposed by photos, is recommended. (Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - December 2, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Ant ónio Almeida,
Rafael Sumozas Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness
AbstractReflexivity 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' ag...
Source: Children and Society - November 30, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Chae ‐Young Kim Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Exposure to parental incarceration and subsequent illicit drug use: A review of the literature
AbstractMore than 2.3 million individuals are currently incarcerated in the United States. Nearly half of incarcerated individuals are parents of minor children. Results from research on drug use among children of incarcerated individuals are conflicting. The purpose of this literature review is to identify and summari ze the evidence base on the associations between parental incarceration (PI) and subsequent drug use in the United States. We performed a literature search of studies that examined associations between exposure to parental incarceration and subsequent drug use. We searched PubMed, Web of Science, Em base, ...
Source: Children and Society - November 28, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Tawandra L. Rowell ‐Cunsolo,
Meghan Bellerose,
Carson Borbely Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID ‐19 in global contexts
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Source: Children and Society - November 27, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Kate Hoskins,
Yuwei Xu,
Jie Gao,
Junqing Zhai Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
Children as co ‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown
AbstractThis 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 ch ildren, and between children, in the articulation of those voices. (Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - November 26, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Aoife Donegan,
Dympna Devine,
Gabriela Martinez ‐Sainz,
Jennifer Symonds,
Seaneen Sloan Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The context ‐bound phenomenon of decision‐making on referrals: A scoping review
AbstractIn this scoping review, we aim to study the decision-making process regarding referrals concerning children and families at risk within child protection and child welfare systems. Particularly, we focus on the decision made immediately after receiving the referral. We conducted two rounds of searches across 17 different databases. We used 17 and 19 different terms translated into four languages respectively. Twenty-seven articles were included within a period of 14 years. After describing the field following the type of social service system and geography, the decision-making ecology (DME) framework was applied....
Source: Children and Society - November 24, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Anne Marie Villumsen,
Camilla Armstrong Gjedde Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
