Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011 –2020
This study stresses that gender inequality is an international issue and aims to remind all parties in two different picture book industries to work on gender equality in future publishing practice, while showing that translation studies allow us to see how different markets intersect. (Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - August 7, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Yi Li,
Melissa Terras,
Yongning Li Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Using innovative communication pathways to reframe the perception of young people within the political establishment
AbstractThis 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 affec...
Source: Children and Society - August 5, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Jackie Bourke Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Poverty for lunch: A case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE
AbstractQuality early care and education (ECE) presents an unparalleled opportunity to avert disadvantage and promote children's development. Mealtimes are essential daily routines, yet are often overlooked in research on ECE quality. This paper crystallises a composite case study of ECE mealtimes in highly disadvantaged communities by combining Departing Radically in Academic Writing (DRAW) methodology with parent surveys, scorings of educator-child interactions (inCLASS), and field notes. Poverty is perpetuated in these centres: children do not have enough food, and educator-dictated feeding practices restrict children's...
Source: Children and Society - August 4, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Bonnie Searle,
Emma Cooke,
Sally Staton,
Karen Thorpe Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Children's grief maps —Capturing children's grief and sorrow in family and close relationships
This article reports the initial findings of a study on children's grief. Grief map data were collected during interviews with 8- to 9-year-old children (N = 22). The aim was to explore children's perceptions of the family and close relationships that help them in moments of grief, and the relationships related to the cause of these emotions. The grief maps were analysed using content and thematic analyses. The results of the study demonstrate the deeply relational nature of children's grief. (Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - August 4, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Henna Pirskanen Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey
This article further argues how these subjectivities are contextual to the intersectional aspects of environmental socialisation. The results provide youthful insights into today's authoritarian Turkey, which is facing an economic recession. (Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - July 26, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Turkan Firinci Orman,
Seran Demiral Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
‘Am I that bad?’: Middle‐class moralism and weight stigma towards parents of children with higher weight
AbstractThe purpose of this article is to explore how parents of children with higher weights are represented in policy documents constituted by health authorities in the Danish welfare state. It focuses on how discourses of moral judgements might play a role in child rearing, by framing child obesity as a parental problem in health professionals' practical guidelines. The article is based on a discursive analysis of cases from three guidelines published by two respected Danish health bodies. The cases describe how health professionals should perceive families with obesity when providing interventions. Using sociocultural ...
Source: Children and Society - July 22, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Iben Charlotte Aamann,
Mikala Erlik Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
‘Vulnerable and abandoned’—The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on education, health and social care provision for children with SEND: Children and parents' perspectives
This study aimed to understand children with special educational needs and disabilities' (SEND) and their parents/carers' experiences of the pandemic in the UK, using mixed-method surveys (n = 893 parents, 55 children) and qualitative interviews (n = 10 parents, 4 children). Descriptive statistical analyses and thematic analysis were utilised. Findings suggest that the needs and rights of children with SEND were not given due consideration during the pandemic, resulting in a decline in mental health, and their social, emotional, academic and physical development. Restrictions were reported as compounding and exacer...
Source: Children and Society - July 15, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Emma Ashworth,
Lucy Bray,
Amel Alghrani,
Joanna Kirkby Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Shrinking social spaces: The role of nurseries as social infrastructure and brokers of support in times of crisis
AbstractCOVID-19 produced temporary closures and changes to organisational practices in nurseries, which shrank social spaces and presented challenges in providing and accessing parental support. Limited attention has been paid in early childhood literature to the role of nurseries. We explored how one nursery mediated the impact of the pandemic on mothers. Our London case study showed that mothers valued it associal infrastructure and as abroker of support networks. Our findings contribute to conceptual understandings and have important implications for the recognition of the role of nurseries in providing supportive spac...
Source: Children and Society - July 14, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Rachel Benchekroun,
Claire Cameron Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Review of the international play policies and their contribution to supporting a child's right to play
AbstractPlay is recognised as a fundamental children's right protected by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Despite legal and constitutional requirements for ensuring children's right to play, there are few international policies dedicated to play. This paper seeks to use a critical discourse analysis lens to compare the current international policies dedicated to play and identify examples of good practice and perceived barriers to the successful development and implementation of play policies. (Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - July 14, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Fiona Armstrong,
David Gaul Tags: POLICY REVIEW Source Type: research
Telepresence robotic technology support for social connectedness during treatment of children with cancer
AbstractChildren with cancer experience fragmented school attendance during treatment. Telepresence robots that connect them with school during treatment periods were explored through an intervention involving participant observation followed by semi-structured interviews from 2020 –22 with children with cancer, their class teachers, and classmates. We used an abductive approach, inspired by the Agential Realism theory and Situational Analysis. The use of telepresence robots in education enables hospitalized children to actively participate in real-time social activities wit h their classmates. However, consistent monito...
Source: Children and Society - July 14, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Mette Weibel,
Inger Kristensson Hallstr öm,
Sofie Skoubo,
Lykke Brogaard Bertel,
Kjeld Schmiegelow,
Hanne Bækgaard Larsen Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Child identity ‐based activism in Brazil: Wearing Afro‐style hair to contest discrimination, racism and oppression
AbstractIn Brazil, Afro-descendant children continue to be stigmatised and excluded due to race-based discriminatory practices and attitudes inherited from colonial times. In order to challenge racism, Brazilian child activists (aged 13 –17) instigated a movement encouraging children to wear Afro-style hair as a symbol of contestation and liberation and to reject hair straightening as a form of domination. Based on empirical qualitative research conducted in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Recife and Fortaleza, this artic le discusses the intersection between children's participation and activism, and the use of ...
Source: Children and Society - July 7, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Patricio Cuevas ‐Parra Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
‘Doing family’ in adversity: Findings from a qualitative study exploring family practices in alternative care settings in Thailand
AbstractThis paper presents findings from a qualitative study that explored children's and families' experiences of alternative care in Thailand. The study used arts-based methods to engage 160 children living in a range of care settings. This included government and NGO-run residential care settings (RCS), children's villages, Buddhist temples, migrant learning centres and foster care homes. Interviews were also conducted with 20 parents/guardians who had placed their children in care. Findings show that despite the alternative care system presenting significant challenges, the participants revealed how they strived to pr...
Source: Children and Society - July 4, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Justin Rogers,
Victor Karunan,
Pryn Ketnim,
Aphisara Saeli Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity —The case of a Finnish preschool
This study investigates how the staff in one preschool group in Finland deals with questions of social class. Despite a lack of reference to class in policy documents, social class emerges in three ways in the discussions among the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) professionals: regarding how they view their group of children, in relation to their own inter-relational dynamics, and in their perception of the practice in another less privileged ECEC setting. The study suggests a need for a more nuanced discussion about social class within ECEC, bearing in mind how it affects relations and the need for consciousness...
Source: Children and Society - July 2, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Pia Mikander,
Jan ‐Erik Mansikka Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
‘Staying Close’: Enabling social interdependence for young people leaving residential care in England
AbstractApplying social interdependence theory as a framework for document analysis, this paper considers eight evaluations of an extended care scheme in England known as ‘Staying Close’. Findings suggest that for extended care projects like ‘Staying Close’ to work, any service offer designed to support the transition from residential care to independent living must be seen by the young person, the carer, and the wider social network, as a continuation of ear lier efforts to build and nurture a genuinely committed relationship. A new interrelations model for extended care is introduced and implications are discusse...
Source: Children and Society - June 27, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Dan Allen Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
From being ignored to engaging in dialogue: Young boys' narratives of children's participation in child –parent conflicts
AbstractThis paper examines children's opportunities to participate in everyday child –parent conflicts as revealed in young boys' fictional narratives. The data were collected from 19 boys aged 3–6 years using the Story Magician's Play Time method. Narrative analysis yielded four story types: ignored participation stories, parent-directed participation stories, child-directed participation stories and dialogical participation stories. The study illustrates that when considering children's participation in child–parent conflicts, differences between children in their opportunities to participate in resolving confli...
Source: Children and Society - June 24, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Maria Lahtinen,
Marja Leena B öök,
Eija Sevón Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
