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• Introduction to Special Collection Eight on Children’s Well-Being from Different Angles
• Dagmar Kutsar and Heili Pals

Introduction

The papers included in this Special Collection originate from–or were inspired by–the 7th conference of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) ‘Children of the Worlds: The Touch of Change. Research, Policy, and Practices,’ held on 27–29 August 2019 in Tartu, Estonia. International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI, established in 2005) incorporates senior researchers and professionals internationally who develop and support indicators to measure and monitor the well-being of children and apply the collected data to influence and formulate policies. ISCI holds biannual international conferences since 2007.

The ISCI conferences aim to gather researchers, practitioners, policy makers and child advocates from across the world to share and discuss the latest research on child indicators and their implications for policy and interventions. The current Special Collection presents examples of children’s well-being research from different angles, such as measurement of child poverty, a debate over applying the notion of child well-being in children’s rights law and research, and empirical evidence of children’s rights and well-being from adults’ and children’s perspectives. The ten articles included in the Collection capture analyses of children’s subjective well-being from Bangladesh, Estonia, France, Indonesia, Nigeria, Poland, and Russia. They are authored by different scholars (sociologists, psychologists, educational scientists, childhood and well-being scholars, faculty of law), but also by an advisor to the Chancellor of Justice of Estonia, UNICEF senior adviser, and head of the Analysis and Statistics Department at Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs.

The ISCI conferences carry ideas of children as a separate social group and a part of the society, also known in academic literature as a ‘new’ understanding of children and childhood. The emergence of a ‘new’ understanding of childhood as a social phenomenon, and of children being active social actors in their own right within a generational order, has given rise to a paradigmatic advancement in the field of reshaping studies in children and childhood, since its development in the mid-1980s (Qvortrup 1985; Qvortrup, Sgritta, and Wintersberger 1994; Alanen 1994). The paradigm rapidly gained popularity with the fresh view it contributed to the development of new theories regarding children and childhood (e.g., Corsaro 1997; James, Jenks, and Prout 1998; and others). [End Page 195]

The new approach differed significantly from the prior one, as it viewed a child not as a future adult but as an active social actor and a subject in the here and now. An international group of researchers studying social indicators of children’s well-being (Ben-Arieh et al. 2001) admitted that administrative data collected on children so far and the so-called simple counting of children (e.g., how many drop out of school, how many have a certain disease, etc.) is not enough to explain how children themselves think they are doing and to what extent their rights are secured. It became clear that the assessments of adults about children are not always adequate and correct. The assessments of children and adults cannot be the same because they are representatives of different generations and, as such, they fulfil different roles in the society as well as towards each other (e.g., Casas 2011; Casas et al. 2013; Gilman and Huebner 2000). If a child is considered as a subject, not an object, it should also be believed that the child has age-appropriate social competence and ability to provide subjective evaluations about different aspects of one’s life (Ben-Arieh 2005; Casas et al. 2013; Mason and Danby 2011).

This new viewpoint in the child well-being research is important in both policy formulation as well as for official statistics, because it can significantly alter the statistical picture. Moreover, new theoretical considerations about children and childhood pave the way for discussions about children’s rights (e.g., Carvalho 2008; Doek 2014; Mayall 2015; and others), and the normative framework of the understanding of a child’s well-being (Kosher and Ben-Arieh 2016). Internationally, the interest in data collected from children started with the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of...

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不同角度的儿童福祉专题丛书八介绍

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• 不同角度的儿童福祉专题丛书八介绍
• Dagmar Kutsar 和 Heili Pals

介绍

本特辑中包含的论文源自国际儿童指标协会 (ISCI) 第 7 届会议“世界儿童：变革之触”，或受其启发。研究、政策和实践”，于 2019 年 8 月 27 日至 29 日在爱沙尼亚塔尔图举行。国际儿童指标协会（ISCI，成立于 2005 年）汇集了国际上的高级研究人员和专业人士，他们开发和支持指标来衡量和监测儿童的福祉，并应用收集到的数据来影响和制定政策。ISCI 自 2007 年起每两年举办一次国际会议。

ISCI 会议旨在聚集来自世界各地的研究人员、从业人员、政策制定者和儿童倡导者，分享和讨论有关儿童指标的最新研究及其对政策和干预措施的影响。目前的特辑从不同角度展示了儿童福祉研究的例子，例如儿童贫困的衡量、关于在儿童权利法和研究中应用儿童福祉概念的辩论，以及儿童权利和福祉的经验证据。从成人和儿童的角度来看。收藏夹中包含的十篇文章对来自孟加拉国、爱沙尼亚、法国、印度尼西亚、尼日利亚、波兰和俄罗斯的儿童主观幸福感进行了分析。它们由不同的学者（社会学家、心理学家、教育科学家、

ISCI 会议将儿童视为一个独立的社会群体和社会的一部分，在学术文献中也被称为对儿童和童年的“新”理解。对童年作为一种社会现象的“新”理解的出现，以及儿童在世代秩序中凭借自己的权利成为积极的社会参与者，已经在重塑儿童和儿童研究领域产生了范式进步，因为它在 1980 年代中期的发展（Qvortrup 1985；Qvortrup、Sgritta 和 Wintersberger 1994；Alanen 1994）。该范式因其有助于发展有关儿童和童年的新理论的新观点而迅速流行起来（例如，Corsaro 1997；James、Jenks 和 Prout 1998；以及其他人）。[第195页结束]

新方法与之前的方法有很大不同，因为它不将儿童视为未来的成年人，而是将其视为活跃的社会参与者和此时此地的主体。一个研究儿童福祉社会指标的国际研究人员小组（Ben-Arieh 等人，2001 年）承认，迄今为止收集的有关儿童的行政数据和所谓的简单儿童计数（例如，有多少辍学、多少人患有某种疾病等）不足以解释儿童自己认为他们在做什么以及他们的权利在多大程度上得到保障。很明显，成人对儿童的评估并不总是充分和正确的。儿童和成人的评价不能相同，因为他们代表不同的世代，因此，他们在社会中以及彼此之间扮演不同的角色（例如，Casas 2011；Casas et al. 2013；Gilman 和 Huebner 2000）。如果将儿童视为主体而非客体，则还应相信儿童具有与年龄相适应的社交能力和对自己生活的不同方面进行主观评价的能力（Ben-Arieh 2005；Casas et al. 2013 ；梅森和丹比 2011）。

儿童福利研究中的这一新观点对于政策制定和官方统计都很重要，因为它可以显着改变统计图。此外，关于儿童和童年的新理论考虑为讨论儿童权利铺平了道路（例如，Carvalho 2008；Doek 2014；Mayall 2015；和其他人）以及理解儿童福祉的规范框架（Kosher 和 Ben -Arieh 2016）。在国际上，对从儿童收集的数据的兴趣始于《儿童权利公约》的通过。