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The sex-map as didactic object: Ontonorms in Swedish sex education Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 David Cardell, Anne-Li Lindgren
This study explores the ‘sex-map’, a didactic object developed in Sweden. The analysis focuses on teacher guidelines and an animated movie for classroom use and how the sex-map becomes a method for emphasizing students as actors in defining sexuality. Building on Mol’s notion of ontonorms, the emphasis is on ways in which the ontology of young sexuality is associated with arguments about what is ‘good’
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Constructing the child as refugee: Visual representations of refugee children in digital news media Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Eleni Theodorou
This paper examines the visual representation of the refugee child in digital news media in Cyprus at two historical moments of significant immigration rise in Europe as a result of violent conflict: the period of May 2015-2016 and February 2022-2023. The analysis showed that refugee children were portrayed in ways which led to their de/humanization. However, differences in the language, themes, and
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“The suffering we collectively inhabit”: Relational understandings of citizenship by the Colombian post-accord generation Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Diana Carolina García Gómez
This paper explores children’s and youth’s understandings of Colombian citizenship. Drawing from ethnographic work in the Museo Casa de la Memoria in Medellín, where I accompanied 15 school visits with young museum workers and over three hundred school-aged children, this paper proposes that citizenship appears to be a double-bind and disputable categorization. Citizenship was defined as a failed formal
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In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Emma Brännlund, Michael Buser, Nicola Holt, Julie Mytton, Afeefa Fazli, Loraine Leeson, Anurupa Roy, Vikramjeet Sinha
This paper focuses on art productions by children participating in an art-based wellbeing intervention project in Kashmir. Drawing on feminist security studies, we conducted narrative analysis to explore how children represent in/security. The locations of in/security were the environment, the body, and the socio-political realm. Children articulated nuanced and complex representations of the natural
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The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children. Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Eric M Wiedenman,Katharine M N Lee,Jean Hunleth
Parental involvement in research where children are the primary study participants is frequent but under-analyzed. To understand such dynamics in research with children, we examined children's (ages 8-14) interactions with parents who came in and out of view during our virtual interviews in our study, Photographing Health by Rural Adolescents in the MidwEst (PHRAME). We identified the pull and push
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Children’s place experiences in high-rise mass housing in Ankara Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Yucel Can Severcan
This article investigates from a gender perspective the places preferred and used by 161 nine-to-twelve year-old children living in inner- and outer-city high-rise mass housing built in the context...
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Activity-tracking assemblages in Finnish early childhood education and care Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Antti Paakkari, Maiju Paananen, Susan Grieshaber
Children’s activity-trackers have recently gained popularity to ensure sufficient exercise for children attending Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care settings. Device manufacturers collabora...
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Complex spaces of involvement during and after paternal deployment: Danish children’s emotions and relationships with their fathers Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Helene Oldrup, Morten Kyed, Anni Brit Sternhagen Nielsen, Ann-Dorte Christensen
A growing body of research indicates that children of formerly deployed soldiers are at risk of experiencing negative outcomes, but studies are lacking in terms of the exploration of children’s emo...
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On youth participation and adult manipulation: Exploring the lowest rung of Hart’s ladder in a youth organization Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Lotem Perry-Hazan, Anna Bauml
The study explored the intersection of youth participation in collective decision-making and adult manipulation. To explore this intersection, we use a case study of youth participation in a confli...
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Creation of child-patient’s autonomy in a child-parent-doctor relationship: Medical doctors’ perspectives Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Kristi Paron, Dagmar Kutsar
The present study is part of a larger research that analyses children’s autonomy in healthcare settings from the perspective of doctors, children and their parents. Based on responses of 52 medical...
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‘Had I been a girl it would have been a big problem’: An intersectional approach to the social exclusion of refugee adolescents with disabilities in Jordan Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Kate Pincock, Nicola Jones, Kifah Bani Odeh
Adolescents with disabilities in Jordan, and particularly girls, are marginalized within their household, often isolated from their peers and communities, at greater risk of violence, and have limi...
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Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Maria Karmiris
By referring to an example from my doctoral research with children labeled and diagnosed with intellectual disabilities, I make a case for the ways that reading silences and silent readings within ...
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Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Katrin Velten, Julia Höke
The paper reflects on researchers’ adultness in the context of two central motifs that accompany interview research with children, “ascertaining children’s perspectives” and “meeting research objec...
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Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-12-03 Hanna Sjögren
This paper analyzes how the relation between childhood and nature contributes to the formation of identities though childhood memories written for archival purposes. Archival research lets us consi...
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Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Kristina Göransson
This article examines how Singaporean parents negotiate complex expectations in relation to current reforms aimed at raising creative and problem-solving children. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, ...
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Branded childhood: Infants as digital capital on Instagram Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Ylva Ågren
The relationships between childhood, labour and value are changing in today’s digital culture. Drawing on a visual discourse analysis of 10 Scandinavian influencers’ Instagram accounts, this paper ...
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Jocular language practices in young boys’ performances of romantic relationships within their local peer culture Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Fredrik Andréasson, Ann-Carita Evaldsson
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we explore how boys use jocular play to perform romantic relationships in their peer culture and construction of masculinities. The analysis combines an ethnomethod...
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Faceless, voiceless child – Ethics of visual anonymity in research with children and young people Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Riikka Korkiamäki, Mervi Kaukko
The anonymisation of research participants is a standardised ethical practice, but researchers sometimes struggle to find an ethical balance between the practice of anonymisation and participants’ ...
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Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Victoria Cooper
Voice represents a commitment to child focused studies which provide insights into childhood. This builds upon the assumption that voice equates to authenticity and that children’s words can speak ...
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Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Claire Freeman, Anita Latai Niusulu, Michelle Schaaf, Tuiloma Susana Taua’a, Helen Tanielu, Christina Ergler, MaryJane Kivalu
Our study with 71 children aged 6-14 living in New Zealand and Samoa, provides a new child-centred perspective on transnational diasporic families. We use the Pacific concept vā to frame the study,...
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Employability and school uniform policies: Projecting the employer’s gaze Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Annabelle Olsson, Rachel Shanks
This article examines employability discourse within school uniform policies as a way to justify uniform. The uniform policy of every publicly funded secondary school in Scotland (n = 357) was stud...
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What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Irene K Nyamu, Sheila P Wamahiu
Using decolonial perspective, this paper critically examines how certain child protection interventions in Kenya might increase childhood vulnerabilities among children from poor social backgrounds...
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Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Karishma Desai, Leila Angod
This article centres a transnational feminist framing that engages racial capitalism and colonialisms in the study of “the global” within childhood studies. We unsettle the dichotomies of North/Sou...
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Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Patricio Cuevas-Parra, E Kay M Tisdall
This article draws on child activists’ experiences in Bangladesh and Ghana, who mobilised to stop potential child marriages from their respective Child Forums and Children’s Parliaments. Case studi...
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Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Radhika Viruru, Zohreh Eslami, Maha Cherif
Recent scholarship has viewed fatherhood from a variety of angles of encounter. In this paper studies that focus on the trope of authoritarian fatherhood in the Arab World were reviewed; extensive ...
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What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Tanu Biswas
My argument addresses a significant history of philosophical racism–a term borrowed from Mogobe Ramose. The argument is: philosophical racism makes the racist philosophically poor, too. I propose t...
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Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Zandra Pedraza-Gómez, Diana Marcela Aristizábal-García
This paper focuses on how a colonial logic shaped ideas and practices about childhood in the modern/colonial interplay between family members, knowledge, activities, and goods that combined differe...
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Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Tatek Abebe, Anandini Dar, Ida M Lyså
This special issue contributes insights into ongoing debates on the politics and ethics of knowledge production in “global” childhood studies by decentering dominant, northern-centric models of chi...
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Framing reciprocal obligations within intergenerational relations in Ghana through the lens of the mutuality of duty and dependence Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Afua Twum-Danso Imoh
Reciprocity has long been recognised as a key feature in intragenerational relations amongst kin, affines and trading partners, but also in intergenerational relations, especially those between children and their caregivers in diverse societies. This paper seeks to explore reciprocity as the tie that binds relationships between caregivers and children while the latter are still ‘dependents’ and the
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Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 R Maithreyi, Ashwini Pujar, Satyanarayana Ramanaik, Mohan H L
Girls’ empowerment programmes have been celebrated as the ‘Smarter Economics’ of pulling girls and families out of poverty; and critiqued as neoliberal strategies for ‘delivering gendered equality through responsibilised selves. These oppositional accounts, conceptualised within institutions of the Global North, present girls as ‘victims’ in different ways, adopting narrow, liberal conceptions of agency
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The invention of the “weird” Southern child: Mapping coloniality in the political problematization of disadvantaged children’s lives in the global South Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Carlos Araneda-Urrutia
In this article, the pervasiveness of coloniality in Southern childhoods’ policyscapes is mapped. By analyzing Chilean child nutrition policies, this article illustrates how coloniality fabricates children’s ontological “weirdness” to naturalize racial optimization through compulsory abledment. The “weird” Southern child is theorized as the preferred policy subject of an ableist assemblage that racializes
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Indigenous epistemologies of childhood in contexts of inequality: Three case studies from the “Global South” Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 María Florencia Amigó, Mariana García Palacios, Noelia Enriz, Ana Carolina Hecht
Drawing on long-term ethnographies with children, the authors (anthropologists from the “Global South”) problematize the disconnect between homogenising discourses around “childhood”, and the local...
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Decolonizing children’s agency: Perspectives of children in an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Bangladesh Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Jiniya Afroze
Drawing on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork with children and adults in an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Bangladesh, this paper critically explores the ambiguities, nuances, and messiness of children’s everyday lives and the complex ways in which children negotiate and exercise their agency. With a critical and reflexive analysis of children’s experiences in everyday lives, this paper aims to make
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Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Lucia Rabello de Castro
This paper analyses the empirical data of school occupations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during 2016 to discuss the production of novel generational orders around the good of public education. Using a decolonial standpoint from where to examine modernization in Brazil and its welfare provision for children, the paper advances the notions of intergenerational practices of co-generativity and politicized
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Indigenous conceptualization of Children’s rights among an Agropastoral societies in southern Ethiopia Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Tadesse Jaleta Jirata
This article offers insights into the social and cultural rights that children are entitled to among agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia. From an Indigenous, bottom-up perspective, children’s “unwritten rights” are not just part of the customary rights and cultural practices but also exemplify local epistemologies that subvert the universal conceptualization of rights. Based on ethnographic data
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Youth’s everyday environmental citizenship: An analytical framework for studying interpretive agency Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Turkan Firinci Orman
When youth agency and climate change are understood in the context of Politics, they do not reflect young people’s everyday realities and their youthful engagement with climate change. Building on the performative understanding of citizenship, in this theoretical piece, I suggest a broader framing of youthful political agency and participation in the context of climate change and consumerism by referring
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Making kin, not babies? Towards childist kinship in the “Anthropocene” Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Nikolas Mattheis
To “make kin, not babies” is what Donna Haraway has recently proposed in response to the so-called “Anthropocene”. Building on other critical engagements with Haraway’s proposal, this paper interrogates it from a childist perspective. While striving towards a “pro-child” position on kinship, Haraway only goes so far in explicating this aim. The paper suggests that challenging adultism as well as attention
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Articulating encounters between children and plastics Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Peter Kraftl, Sophie Hadfield-Hill, Polly Jarman, Iseult Lynch, Alice Menzel, Ruth Till, Amy Walker
In the context of global concerns about plastics, this paper sets out and exemplifies a research agenda for articulating children’s encounters with plastics. The paper analyses data co-produced with 11–15 year-olds through interviews, app-based research and experimental/arts-led workshops. It moves beyond scholarship in health and environmental sciences, and in environmental education research, to
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Reinventing children’s rights Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Karl Hanson
In a changing world we constantly need to adjust our thinking patterns and frameworks to help making sense of the continuing transformations that have a bearing on children, childhood and children’s rights. Many authors and initiatives contribute to that task. In 2016 Florian Esser et al. edited a collected volume entitled Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood, which engages with the theoretical,
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‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Mervi Kaukko, Jane Wilkinson, Nick Haswell
This article explores a child-led project of building a treehouse through the theory of practice architectures. It draws on video data collected by 13 children wearing microcameras (GoPro) in a multicultural Australian primary school. The data was co-analysed with the children. The article illuminates how play practices emerge, diffuse, persist and/or disappear with time. This knowledge is needed to
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How are children coping with COVID-19 health crisis? Analysing their representations of lockdown through drawings Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Nahia Idoiaga Mondragon, Amaia Eiguren Munitis, Naiara Berasategi Sancho, Maitane Picaza Gorrotxategi, Maria Dosil Santamaria
Spain is one of the European countries most affected of COVID-19, and also the one with the most stringent restrictions for children. This study aims to explore how COVID-19 lockdown affects children by analysing 151 drawings from children in lockdown. Findings were represented in four main categories: (1) Activities; (2) Emotions; (3) Socialization; and (4) Academic. The results indicate the need
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The child as a medium. Breakdown and possible resurgence of children’s agency in the era of pandemic Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Sara Amadasi, Claudio Baraldi
This paper deals with the unpredictable outbreak of the pandemic, explaining its impact on the education system, and with structural flexibility as a way to face unpredictability, based on the generalisability and coordination of manifestations of agency. The pandemic has enhanced a narrative of the child as a medium of learning, which undermines children’s agency. The example of the research project
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South Korea’s legacy of orphan adoption and the violation of adoptees’ rights to know their origins Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Kyung-eun Lee
South Korea experienced international scrutiny over its irregular intercountry adoption practices in the 1980s. However, it eventually came to be viewed as a model of transparent and efficient adoptions. This façade disguises an orphan adoption system that has become entrenched over the decades. Today, adoptees continue to lobby for their right to origins. This paper explores South Korea’s laws and
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Tangled sideways research: Reimagining temporality in research with children Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Kara M Gavin
This article wonders how reconsidering conceptions of time in research with children could expand and complicate notions of childhoods. Drawing on Karen Barad’s (2016, 2018) writing on temporal entanglements alongside Katherine Stockton’s (2009) discussion of growing sideways, research is reviewed and data from a participatory study reexamined. These divergent notions of temporality blur boundaries
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“[A] story about a child is scarier than one about an adult roughly 80% of the time”: Creepypasta, Children’s media, and the child in media discourse Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Amy Pattee
“Creepypasta,” short works of original horror fiction and frightening images created primarily by amateurs and shared in online communities of like-minded readers and writers, use the language of horror to encode and offer commentary on issues of contemporary concern. A close reading of an exemplary text, “Candle Cove,” demonstrates how this and other similarly themed creepypasta represent vernacular
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Doing childhood, doing gender, but not doing sports: Unorganized girls’ reflections on leisure time from a relational perspective Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Anders Kassman, Åsa Kneck
The aim is to analyze how girls from a multi-ethnic area, not doing sports, reason about their well-being during leisure time, and how they think about physical activities, social relations, and their near future. The results say that they mainly regard leisure time as a moment for rest. They have close relations in primary groups but weaker secondary relations. They reveal stereotypical opinions about
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Philosophy and childhood studies Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-03-18
Is there, and should there be, within the multidisciplinary field of childhood studies, a place also for an autonomous philosophical subdiscipline: philosophy of childhood? What would motivate such inquiry, what might be its central concerns? Also, what would be its role among and in relation to the already existing range of specialist childhood sciences, such as the sociology, geography, and psychology
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Making sense of an irregular adoption. Subjective trajectories of four French adoptees born in Romania in the 1980s and 1990s Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Mylène Hernandez
This article presents the results of qualitative research conducted with 20 adoptees, specifically the experiences of four French adoptees from Romania, who discovered significant irregularities in their adoptions. In the form of four ethnographic cases followed by a discussion, it describes the adoptees' bewilderment at their pre-adoptive trajectories and discusses the absence of collective frameworks
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Kindergarten children’s views on friendship in a super-diverse context Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Jodi Streelasky
In this empirical research, I investigated 16 kindergarten children’s perspectives on their friendships at school in a super-diverse classroom in Canada. A cultural-historical perspective and a “pedagogy of friendship” conceptual framework were drawn on in this research. In the study, the kindergarten children created drawings of their valued friendships. These visual representations revealed the importance
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Children as experiencers: Increasing engagement, participation and inclusion for young children in the museum Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Ellen Yates, Judith Szenasi, Amanda Smedley, Kayla Glynn, Michelle Hemmings
This research aimed to evaluate young children’s engagement, participation and inclusion within a city museum by utilising observations and semi structured interviews with children and families. Both groups requested more interactive exhibits, sensory experiences, making and doing activities and role play opportunities. In this article, we argue for increased visibility of children’s ‘intangible heritage’
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Intersubjectivity in the nursery: A case-study from Denmark Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Thomas Gitz-Johansen
This paper reports from a study of intersubjectivity in a Danish nursery (“vuggestue”) for the 0-3 year olds. The study uses psychoanalytic infant observation. The concept of intersubjectivity is introduced from developmental psychology. Intersubjective moments depend on the adults’ mental participation in children’s interests and reactions. We know from developmental psychology that for children intersubjectivity
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Children and adolescents’ voices and the implications for ethical research Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Hayda Alves, Lisa Gibbs, Katitza Marinkovic, Irma Brito, Payam Sheikhattari
A discussion on the ethical context and barriers to include children’s voices in research and clarify the role of Research Ethic Committees. Twenty-one researchers from eight countries participated in 2 focus groups and 10 individual in-depth interviews. The results highlight the need for reforming ethical regulations to facilitate greater and more meaningful participation of children and adolescent
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The aftermath of transnational illegal adoptions: Redressing human rights violations in the intercountry adoption system with instruments of transitional justice Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Elvira C Loibl
A growing movement of illegally adopted individuals request remedies and reparations for the human rights violations that they and their biological families had suffered. This article explores a number of measures that the stakeholders in the receiving countries can use in an effort to repair the human rights violations caused by illegal intercountry adoptions, borrowing ideas from transitional justice
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Intercountry adoption swimming against the tide: Restitution in Samoa Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Patricia Fronek, Karen S Rotabi-Casares, Robert Common
Intercountry adoption (ICA) is a contested practice represented by competing discourses of humanitarianism, exploitation, poverty and wealth. Multiple factors have contributed to decreasing numbers of adoption globally including documented incidents of fraud which have accumulated over the last two decades. There is little recompense for families subjected to the fraudulent removal of their children
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Irregularities in transnational adoptions and child appropriations: Challenges for reparation practices Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Aranzazu Gallego Molinero, Chandra Kala Clemente-Martínez
Transnational adoption is a global movement of children across borders to new permanent and irreversible legal relationships. It is a circulation that involves social, economic, cultural and political relations marked by geographies of inequalities of power on a global scale. Many of these circulations have been shrouded by illicit practices which mean the violation of child rights. This special issue
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Implications of irregular transnational adoptions within international standards: A review of intercountry adoption systems and Guatemalan birthmother perspectives Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Carmen Monico
With growing global emergencies, child abduction became a concern in countries of origin and reception of transnationally adopted children. Improved regulations and standards to prevent child trafficking exhibit failures to ensure the best interest of children and the principle of subsidiarity. The article reviews relevant literature documents the Guatemalan birthmothers’ experiences and documented
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Redressing forced removals of Yenish children in Switzerland in the 20th century: An analysis through transitional justice lens Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2021-12-18 Elena Patrizi
‘A society that does not tackle the bitterest chapters of its past risks repeating the same mistakes – sooner or later'. These are the words pronounced by the Swiss Minister of Justice to apologise for the harm suffered by victims of coercive social measures. Apology is one of the measures established by Switzerland for dealing with the legacy of forced removals of Yenish children. Through an analysis
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‘I prefer not to know’: Spain’s management of transnational adoption demand and signs of corruption Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Beatriz San Román
The safeguards and measures to prevent child trafficking mentioned in the 1993 Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption have proven insufficient in curbing the so-called irregular adoptions. An analysis of how Spanish central authorities and intermediary agencies managed the flow of adoption dossiers between 2003 and 2013 presents their inability to react swiftly to the imbalance between adoption
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In Memoriam Berry Mayall Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2021-12-17
My dear friend and colleague, Berry Mayall, passed away on 25 October 2021, after a long illness. Berry was Emerita Professor of Childhood Studies at UCL (Institute of Education, Social Science Research Unit and Thomas Coram Research Unit) where she had worked since 1973. She was a pioneer in the development of the field of sociology of childhood in the UK, not only instrumental in setting up the Masters
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Seen and not heard: Students’ uses and experiences of silence in school relationships at a secondary school Childhood (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2021-12-05 Amy Hanna
Silence is traditionally understood as a power deficit; yet, it creates spaces in which power works unobtrusively. In this article, I report the findings of a qualitative study examining silence in school relationships. Based on nine conceptual discussions and 33 interviews with teachers and students in a secondary school in the UK, I assert that uses of silence in relationships between students and