“For me, speaking about the past is the best in the world, for them, the worst”: Social landscapes and territories of memory from displaced Colombian children
AbstractThe text analyses the memory of displacements of Colombian children, as a result of the armed conflict. To this end, a study was developed with 12 children, between the age of 8 and 12 years, and 5 mothers, belonging from rural areas from North Colombia, now living in Bogota periphery, who where displaced between 2008 and 2015. Visual methodologies (drawings, photography s and especially Google street view) were used to prompt children in articulating live narratives about the experience of displacement, as well as interviews with mothers. Children's memories where characterized by being spatially situated, maki...
Source: Children and Society - June 23, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Diana Marcela Camacho,
Maria Cristina Soares Gouvea Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
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
AbstractThis 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 a...
Source: Children and Society - June 20, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Sara Williams,
Lindsey Jo McEwen,
Luci Gorell Barnes,
Toity Deave,
Amanda Webber,
Verity Jones,
Laura Fogg‐Rogers,
Deepak Gopinath,
Laura Hobbs Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Children and Society - June 19, 2023 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Educating young children with diverse languages and cultures By Karen Nemeth, London: Routledge. 2023. pp. 174. £39.99 (paperback). ISBN: 9780367535087
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Source: Children and Society - June 19, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Frida Akmalia Tags: BOOK REVIEWS Source Type: research
Children's perspectives on their play experiences during the COVID ‐19 pandemic: A video‐based interview study
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown regulations introduced many changes to children's everyday lives, including play, creating a unique pandemic experience for children. For this qualitative study, 15 children (ages 3 –10) participated in virtual interviews on play during the pandemic between August and October 2020. While children recognised changes to play, it had persisted despite restrictions—play itself was not on lockdown. Children showed that play remained valuable and was an expression of adaptability , confidence and positivity. These considerations can help us support children's childhoods during crise...
Source: Children and Society - June 14, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Kelsey Graber,
Christine O'Farrelly,
Paul Ramchandani Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Imagined foodways and rejected biopedagogies: Rural children's perspectives of rural foodways
AbstractRural residency is an independent risk factor for being overweight, but little is known about why this is so. The purpose of our study was to gain insight into what Norwegian rural children say about a rural diet in comparison to an urban one. Child-friendly methods were used. We found a discrepancy between what the children said they eat – traditional, ‘healthy’ foods, and what they ate – largely ultra-processed foods. We explored this by using the frameworks of imagined foodways and biopedagogies. Their imagined foodways were rooted in notions of ‘traditional food’, connected to surrounding nature and...
Source: Children and Society - June 13, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Ellen M. I. Ersfjord,
Tanja Plasil,
Reidun Heggem Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
School integration of immigrant children in Belgium
This study examines the social, learning and emotional needs of immigrant children enrolled in an educational preparatory programme before transitioning to the formal school system in Belgium. Data for this study were collected through 12 semi-structured interviews with teachers and programme coordinators in four secondary schools and four reception centres in the greater Brussels region in 2020. Findings reveal that schools and teachers are increasingly aware of the complex needs of immigrant children and can address these needs through various channels, such as organizing school and extra-curricular activities, adapting ...
Source: Children and Society - June 12, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Lise Desm ée,
Victor Cebotari Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Negotiating power dynamics through co ‐reflexivity in research with young children in disadvantaged communities
AbstractThis 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 ...
Source: Children and Society - June 12, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Sandra Marie El Gemayel,
Yaspia Salema Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
A comprehensive policy review of evidence ‐based practices in autism policy across the United Kingdom's four nations
AbstractThis review provides an overview of how the four nations construct policy around supporting autistic people and identifies supports which are considered evidence-based practice (EBP). Video-based interventions are a recommended EBP for supporting autistic people and are recommended specifically within the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence autism guidelines. We highlight that EBP's can be difficult to identify and conclude with the recommendation that evidence and gap maps are a valuable tool that should be used to present evidence in an accessible way to policy makers, autistic people and their fami...
Source: Children and Society - June 9, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Catherine Storey,
Karen McConnell,
Ciara Keenan Tags: POLICY REVIEW Source Type: research
Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse and Gang Involvement. Violence at Home, Violence on ‐Road by Jade Levell Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022 ISBN: 978–1 529 219 807, 216 pp, £85.00 (hb).
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Source: Children and Society - June 5, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Tanya Frances Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
‘It hurts to give up on a child who has already been given up’: School counsellors' perspectives on their support for children in foster care
AbstractThis qualitative study examines how 17 elementary school counsellors perceive their work with out-of-home foster-care children. Three main themes emerged from the in-depth semi-structured interviews, highlighting the challenges and conflicts faced by these counsellors: (1) shying away from providing deep therapy but helping with specific issues, (2) the professional and ethical dilemmas of having to report to the authorities about foster families' domestic neglect or abuse while maintaining positive work relationships with these families and the children and (3) prevailing admiration towards the foster parents. The...
Source: Children and Society - June 2, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Inbar Levkovich,
Sawsan Awwad ‐Tabry,
Bat Hen Shachoach Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Educating young children with diverse languages and culturesBy Karen Nemeth, London: Routledge. 2022. pp. 174. £39.99 (paperback). ISBN: 9780367535087
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Source: Children and Society - May 29, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Frida Akmalia Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Exploring separated children's experience of migration in Nepal
AbstractMost Nepalese children live in rural areas where poverty, employment and education act as key drivers in their decision to migrate to urban centres. This paper reports on a study which researched the experiences of separated children who migrated, as reported through interviews with 20 practitioners working in NGOs in Kathmandu. It describes children's motivations, migratory journeys and situations, when ‘promises of work’ often failed to materialise. Having seen more children migrating to Kathmandu and recently fearful that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to further increase, practitioners identif...
Source: Children and Society - May 27, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Susan Kay ‐Flowers,
Nalini Lama,
Pradipta Kadambari Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Growing up with disabled parents who use personal assistance (PA support): children's views and experiences
AbstractThis paper focuses on the experiences of children and young people whose parents employ personal assistant(s) (PAs). It describes findings from a UK-based qualitative doctoral research study which explored the significance, influence and meaning of the PA role in supporting family life. Ten children and young adults aged 8 –28 years with lived experience were interviewed face to face as part of this study, which also explored the perspectives of disabled parents and PAs. Findings reveal that PA support can alter both the quality and nature of the parent/child relationship. The provision of personal assistance c...
Source: Children and Society - May 25, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Nicola Jones Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Childist theory in the humanities and social sciences
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Source: Children and Society - May 19, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Tanu Biswas,
John Wall Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
