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Navigating the rights of intersex children in Zimbabwe Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Pearl Gambiza, Hellen Venganai
Despite the seemingly progressive strides made in promoting the rights of children in many African countries, the rights of intersex children remain hidden. This paper explores the lived experiences of intersex children in Zimbabwe drawing from in‐depth interviews conducted with intersex children aged between 8 and 16 years. The paper reveals a myriad of overlapping challenges faced by intersex children
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Re‐thinking youth work as initial mental health support for young people Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Alison Ní Charraighe, Andie Reynolds
Youth work is a practice that supports young people and bolsters mental health and well‐being. In the aftermath of the Covid‐19 pandemic, young people in the UK have experienced rising levels of mental distress. However, in the broader youth policy field, youth work is rarely acknowledged as a mental health support. This article draws upon research uncovering to what extent youth workers provide mental
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Children's participation in everyday life: An international overview Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Hanita Kosher, Daphna Gross‐Manos
Much of the research on children's right to participation has focused on formal settings, with less attention given to everyday contexts. The current study explores the scope of children's participation in everyday life in the family, school and community. Based on a sample of 46 000 children from 32 countries, children's participation was found to vary across the different contexts. Moreover, the
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Sexuality education for disabled children and youth in Ontario, Canada: Addressing epistemic injustice through school‐based sexuality education Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Adam Davies, Samantha O'Leary, Jessica Prioletta, Bronte Shay, Malissa Bryan, Orion Neustifter
While conversations pertaining to school‐based sexuality education are becoming more prominent, the experiences of disabled children and youth are still under‐discussed in research. Despite disabled childhood studies emerging as a field of inquiry, there is still a lack of critical conversation pertaining to disabled students' sexuality education within their respective schooling. This article draws
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Becoming a ‘good parent’: Social class and talk labour among South Korean parents Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Yoonhee Kang
This ethnographic study explores how South Korean parents understand their language use as a significant resource for their children's education. By expanding the concept of ‘talk labour’, this article examines how South Korean parents report on managing their day‐to‐day communication with their children as part of their educational work and how they conceptualize and evaluate their talk labour in
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Interlocked: The ethics of care and the ethics of justice in children's discourses on the parent–child relationship in Chile Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Ana Vergara del Solar, Mauricio Sepúlveda Galeas, Daniela Leyton Legües, Susana Cortés‐Morales, Pilar Anastasía González
The article begins with a discussion of the contribution of childhood studies to our understanding of children's ethics, taking into account feminist inputs to the debate over the ethics of care and the ethics of justice. Then, based on two qualitative studies carried out in Chile with children between 10 and 13 years of age, the article shows the emphasis the children place on reciprocal care between
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Exploring children's experiences of schooling in Tanzania: How the ‘hidden curriculum’ undermines aspirations for sustainable development Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Laela Adamson, Rhona Brown
In the context of aspirations that firmly position education as the key to multiple global development goals, we raise concerns about how education is experienced by many children, particularly in low‐income, postcolonial contexts. Drawing from two, in‐depth qualitative studies in Tanzania, we demonstrate that existing pedagogical practices, including the use of an unfamiliar language of learning and
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Constructing child participation in early years classrooms: An exploration from Wales Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Jane Waters‐Davies, Alison Murphy, Sarah Chicken, Jacky Tyrie, Jennifer Clement
This paper addresses the research problem that arises from evidence that, despite supportive policy contexts, enactment of pedagogies that attend to young children's participation rights in classroom settings is highly variable. We report our exploration of the ways in which the child, and child participation are constructed in early education settings in Wales, where legislation and policy around
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Envisioning action‐oriented and justice‐driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Carlie D. Trott
Through in‐depth interviews, this study explored US youth climate justice activists' views and experiences of climate change education (CCE) and their recommendations for alternative educational approaches to advance climate justice. Youth activists (N = 16; ages 15 to 17) viewed education as critical to spurring societal transformation, however, most described narrowly focused (e.g., depoliticized;
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The Youth Tackling Climate Emergency educational proposal: An opportunity for change Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Begoña Vendrell‐Simón, Marta Vilar Recasens, Alba Galofré Robles, Clara Soler Freixa, Fran Lama Camacho, Àlex Mèlich Colom
The main objective of the Youth Tackling Climate Emergency Educational Proposal (YTCEEP) is to involve secondary students in addressing climate action‐related subjects from a local context and in a proactive way. We present an evaluation of its third edition, based on the answers from final surveys assessing knowledge, perceptions and attitudes. Main results show that YTCEEP promotes reflection on
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Surviving on the periphery of society: Experiences of street children in Accra, Ghana Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Kwamina Abekah-Carter
Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of social fields, this article sought to answer two research questions: (a) what challenges do street children encounter on the streets? and (b) what survival strategies do these street children adopt to cope with street life? Thirty street children constituted the study's sample size. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions and were thematically
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The space before, the space beyond: Activism, relationships and social change in the neo-liberal academy Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Emma Davidson, Laura Wright, Autumn Roesch-Marsh
The last 20 years have seen exponential growth in participatory research methods in child and youth studies, social work, education and allied disciplines. Scholars internationally have highlighted the ways these methods can connect with other areas of scholarship including children's rights, citizenship and activism. The Binks Hub is a new initiative committed to supporting, promoting and delivering
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Remembrance and ritual in English schools Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Patrick Alexander, Susannah Wright, David Aldridge, Annie Haight
This article explores war remembrance and ritual in English schools. The Remembrance in Schools project (2013–2020) investigated remembrance practices in schools in England through questionnaires, interviews and observations. Schools are unique as sites of remembrance because children constitute the majority of participants in rituals. School-based rituals of remembrance might potentially reproduce
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‘They are watching you do everything online’: Children's perceptions of social media surveillance Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Claire Kathryn Pescott
Through a Foucauldian lens, this qualitative study explored the perspectives and lived conditions of children's experiences of social media surveillance. Sixteen children between the ages of 10 and 11 years old participated in the creative method of collaging with an unstructured interview in four schools in South Wales, UK. Visual combined with verbal analysis found a nuanced picture of how social
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‘What if someone had told me that as a kid?’: Professionals' perspectives on their personal experiences of family-related childhood adversity and their supportive practice Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Stina Michelson
The aim of this study is to explore how professionals with personal experiences of family-related childhood adversity describe and make sense of the relationship between their experience and their supportive practice. It builds on interviews with 10 professionals working within two Swedish non-governmental organizations offering support to children experiencing family-related adversity. The findings
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Caregivers' perspectives of support needs for adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Kelly Skorka, Jodie Copley, Catherine McBryde, Pamela J. Meredith, Natasha Reid
Research focused on fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is often deficit-focused, limiting a holistic understanding of individuals' support needs. Families of adolescents with FASD also struggle to access appropriate services. Using semi-structured interviews, the current study explored the perspectives of seven caregivers of adolescents with FASD in Australia. Interpretative phenomenological analysis
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‘Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?’ The nature and purpose of secure children's homes Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Caroline Andow
Secure children's homes are locked institutions that deprive children of their liberty. The government are investing significantly in these homes, yet there remains a lack of clarity about their nature and purpose. Drawing on data generated through a substantial ethnography in one secure children's home in England, this paper uses Goffman's (1961) theorising as a conceptual lens to view the institution
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Rebels in their own job: How digging into a municipal mystery turned invited youth participation in an urban planning process into uninvited activism Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Aina Landsverk Hagen, Bjørk Brøndmo Engerbakk, Sara Berge Lorenzen, Ingrid M. Tolstad
Youth participation has become an important mechanism in many aspects of society, research and democratic institutions and in urban planning specifically. Yet, the ideal of participation often collides with the realities of planning as practice. In this article, we outline the halting process of transforming an old villa owned by the municipality into a youth house, and how youth trained as co-researchers
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Child sexual abuse in Ghana: A multi-methods exploratory study Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Garnet Linda Naa Adukwei Acquaye, Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie, Joana Salifu Yendork, Kwaku Oppong Asante
Using a qualitative multi-methods approach, this study explored the offence, survivor and perpetrator characteristics, and the lived experiences of child and adolescent survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) in Ghana. We analysed the contents of local media reports of CSA cases from January 2015 to December 2020 in Ghana, after which we conducted semi-structured interviews involving five female child
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Coming of age in a pandemic era: The interdependence of life spheres through the lens of social integration of care leavers in Quebec during the COVID-19 pandemic Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Victor Fernandes, Anta Niang, Rosita Vargas Diaz, Martin Goyette
This paper explores how the COVID-19 pandemic affected care leavers in Quebec, a social group already facing obstacles to social integration. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 48 participants and analysed through Castel's zones of vulnerability model. Results suggest that youth who entered the pandemic with more vulnerabilities were more affected by it in all dimensions of
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‘We live here and play here, we should have a say’: An exploration of children's perceptions of place-making in the Market community, Belfast Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Benedict McAteer, Emma Loudon, Kathryn Higgins
Children learn through interaction with their surroundings, meaning that their experiences of place directly contribute to their personal development. Despite this, the needs of the youth are rarely factored into development plans. This is a major obstacle to the sustainable and inclusive development of places. Examining potential pathways to correct this issue, this paper presents the findings of
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Doing and undoing gendered racism with racialized girls: A school-based youth participatory action research study Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Leila Angod
This article explores the ethics and transformative potential of youth participatory action research (yPAR) using data from a 2-year school-based yPAR study at an elite, independent school in Toronto, Canada. I use discourse analysis to show how school-based yPAR with racialized girls intensified their experiences of gendered racism, shaping the research in a circular fashion. I demonstrate how youth
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An ethnographic fieldwork: The role of school shows in the reproduction of gender inequalities in Turkey Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Ayşe Yılmaz
This article explores the processes of creating school shows in primary schools in Turkey and examines how teachers reinforce particular gendered constructions of femininity and masculinity through children's bodies in the making of these performances. Drawing on the insights from the sociology of the body within childhood research, the article is based on an ethnography conducted in a costume shop
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What can I do for my community? Contributing to the promotion of civic engagement through participatory methodologies: The case of young people from border regions of mainland Portugal Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Nicolas Martins da Silva, Sofia Marques da Silva
This article explains how participatory approaches can promote civic engagement among young people, resulting from their active involvement in the research process, namely identifying their communities' priorities and problems. Five project-building sessions were held with young people from five contexts located in the border regions of mainland Portugal. The data supporting this article were collected
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Transitional support interventions for care leavers: A scoping review Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Julie Feather, Dan Allen, Rhian Crompton, Zoey Jones, Angela Christiansen, Gavin Butler
The purpose of this scoping review was to identify and map knowledge on different types of transitional support interventions currently available to support transition to independent living for care leavers. An extensive search using four research databases was undertaken, resulting in 36 relevant articles for inclusion. Findings were organised thematically into four broad areas: (1) Extended care;
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Russian fathers' involvement in childcare, children's education and housework during the COVID-19 lockdown Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Oxana Mikhaylova, Elizaveta Sivak
This study attempts to determine whether the increasing need for parental assistance with schooling and the improved options for this owing to remote work had an impact on fathers' involvement in childcare, children's education and housework during the COVID-19 lockdown. We make use of information from a May 2020 online poll of 1359 Russian mothers. Using binary logistic regression, we examine the
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The culture trap: Ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for Black youthBy Derron Wallace, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 296. £74.00. ISBN: 9780197531464 Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Garth Stahl
The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth by Derron Wallace is a provocative, cohesive and deeply engrossing monograph. It is a powerful—and at times confronting—story which makes an important contribution to the scholarship on ethnicity and education. The research is steeped deeply in history with a clear agenda for the future. Effortlessly blending historical facts
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Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Lisa Jones, Katie J. Parsons, Florence Halstead, Joshua M. Wolstenholme
This article offers new insights into the important role that transdisciplinary, participatory action research approaches offer young people as a safe space to ‘act’ on climate change and environmental degradation. Drawing upon methodological meta-reflections on three separate, but interlinked, projects (two UK-based, one in Vietnam), we highlight an evolving approach that fuses knowledge, local context
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A causeway to impact: A proposed new integrated framework for intergenerational community-based participatory action research Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Emma Loudon, Joanne Neary, Ben McAteer, Kathryn Higgins, Christopher Chapman
Over recent decades there has been growing interest in amplifying children and young people's views (CYP) within policy debates. Despite this, they are rarely invited to participate in key policy-making discussions, and when they are, this tends to be tokenistic. This paper presents an intergenerational methodological framework ‘The Causeway Approach’, inspired by the mythology of the Giant's Causeway
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Children's perspectives on vegetable consumption and gardening: Outcomes from a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Kai Ting Mok, Serene En Hui Tung, Satvinder Kaur, Yit Siew Chin, Mohammad Yusoff Martini, Vaidehi Ulaganathan
Urban poor children have low vegetable consumption due to food insecurities leading to limited access to vegetables. Children's involvement in gardening may improve their vegetable consumption and connection with nature. This qualitative study explored the potential facilitators and barriers related to vegetable consumption and gardening among urban poor children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Four focus
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Children's relational experiences with the financial crisis in Greece Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Eirini Pardali, Marit Ursin
When Greece was hit by the global financial crisis in 2009, families with children paid the heaviest toll. In this article, we draw on individual interviews and focus groups with 17 sixth graders, six teachers and six parents at a primary school in the Magnesia region. We use a relational approach to unpacking everyday austerity as it is lived, felt and experienced by Greek children. The empirical
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‘I don't know what is autism, what is normal teenage behaviour, and what is naughtiness’: Conceptualising child and adolescent to parent violence in the context of neurodevelopmental difference Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Amanda Holt
This article presents findings from a UK-based qualitative study that explored parents/carers experiences of child to parent violence (CPV) from their child who has a neurodevelopmental difference. The study used semi-structured interviews with 15 mothers who were experiencing physical and psychological violence from their child, often on a daily basis. Findings show that parents struggled to make
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Cultivating child and youth decision-making: The principles and practices of the ReSPECT approach to professional development Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Samia Michail, Rebekah Grace, Jonathan Ng, Harry Shier
Participatory approaches are important to ensuring that the involvement of children in decision-making is normalised in service provision. Participation work requires that professionals have well-developed engagement skills, and a commitment to the right of the child or young person to participate. Effective participatory approaches also require that organisations provide active support for child-centred
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Research handbook on international child abduction: The 1980 convention By Marilyn Freeman and Nicola Taylor (Eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 2023. pp. 461. £210 (hbk). ISBN: 9781800372504 Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Allison Wolfreys
This research handbook concerns international parental child abduction. That is, where one parent, without the consent of the other parent, takes their child to another country then refuses to return them, or having taken a child for an agreed overseas trip, then retains them in the other country. The primary focus is the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (hereafter
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Youth provisioning in low-income families: Reconsidering theories of poor attachment Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Lea Caragata
This paper explores the relationships between low-income single mothers and their adolescent and early adult children utilizing qualitative interview and focus group data with youth from three Canadian cities. The research explored youth provisioning roles in these families. Provisioning, a concept widely understood in the global south, refers to labour used to sustain low-income families and includes
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Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 David Monk, Elizabeth Walton, Roda Madziva, George Opio, Annemaaike Kruisselbrink, George Ladaah Openjuru
This paper draws on empirical evidence from a 3-year research project in Northern Uganda examining the educational experiences of refugees with disabilities. The authors present the compounded and interrelated challenges children with disabilities and their families face as they navigate their educational experiences and seek out opportunities to live well. The authors seek to make a contribution towards
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Child marriage: Representation of the marriage of underage girls problem in the Turkish print media Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Esra Bayhantopçu
Child marriage, specifically the marriage of underage girls, is a crucial social problem that cuts across religions and cultures and can be considered as violence against children and women. Currently, the media is one of the strongest public spheres to combat this problem apart from national and international laws and agreements. This study aims to analyse how the child marriage problem is represented
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“Time to be free”: Playful agency in LOVE's in-school programme for at-risk youth Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Nadia Hausfather, Marjorie Montreuil, Jean-Frédéric Ménard, Franco A. Carnevale
Research increasingly suggests that positive youth development programmes play an important part in preventing youth violence and promoting positive developmental trajectories. We conducted a focussed ethnography of LOVE, a social development programme aimed at supporting youth who have been exposed to violence. Building on a previous study's exploration of this programme's afterschool setting, we
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Process of co-production of mental health service plans for refugee children in Turkey Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Eruyar Seyda, Yilmaz Merve, O' Reilly Michelle, Vostanis Panos
Refugee children and young people have high levels of unmet mental health needs. A trauma-informed service transformation framework was applied with 14 professionals in Turkey. Through participatory focus groups, professionals co-produced service plans and considered enabling and challenging factors for implementation. Data were analysed through a thematic codebook approach. Established themes suggested
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Childhood and youth in India: Engagements with modernity By Anandini Dar, Divya Kannan (Eds.), Cham, Switzerland AG: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. pp. 295, $159.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978-3-031-31 819-1 Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Namrita Batra
The book is a useful addition to the steadily increasing body of literature that explores how modernity shapes the lives of children and young people in India. The editors bring together 11, engaging qualitative research studies, united in their argument that young people's enactments of modernity in urban India are fluid, with them partaking in certain modern practices and resisting others. With this
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Bullying in Spanish high schools: Intersection of gender and immigrant background Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Isabel Sáenz-Hernández, Karina Ginoyan, Ken Goigner, Lucie Slapakova
Based on the data from PISA 2018, the study investigates the relationship between gender and immigration status on exposure and attitudes towards bullying and students' perception of teachers' intercultural attitudes in Spanish high schools. While boys and first-generation immigrants experience significantly more bullying, girls and students without immigration background showed overall stronger negative
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Adjustment challenges faced by Yazidi youth refugees in Canada Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Charlotte Finnigan, Jason Brown, Mohamed Al-Adeimi
Resettlement to a new country is a period of adjustment for all youth refugees, especially for highly traumatized groups of refugees, such as the Yazidi population. This study explores adjustment challenges faced by Yazidi youth refugees in Canada using group concept mapping. 12 Yazidi youth participated. Seven concepts represent the statements, including family stress and adjustment, the experience
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A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Sukanya Krishnamurthy, Loritta Chan, Mary Ann Powell, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Irene Rizzini, Roshni K. Nuggehalli, Alicia Tauro, Bharath Palavalli
This paper explores how research advisory groups can be a vehicle for youth activism. It draws on our experiences with young activists, aged 15–26 years, in India and Brazil, who were advisors on a research project focused on youth livelihoods in cities. These young people played a vital role in supporting youth researchers, identifying research themes and developing engagement and advocacy strategies
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Pakistani children's lived experiences of relationships in the context of child protection services in Norway: An interpretative phenomenological analysis Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Samita Wilson, Sarah Hean, Tatek Abebe, Vanessa Heaslip
This paper examines how children from immigrant background experience and negotiate power relations with family and social workers in the context of child protection services (CPS) in Norway. Using the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) methodology, 11 children from Pakistani background were interviewed about their lived experiences with CPS. Analysis of the data highlights that children
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The non-protesting children in the 2018 Parkland school shooting protests and their freedom not to express views in child participation spaces Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Roberto S. Salva
Using mixed methods, we looked into USA children's reasons behind their non-participation in the 2018 Parkland school shooting protests from newsletters of randomly sampled 57 middle (MS) and high schools (HS) across USA. We found five themes of reasons that point to non-protesting children's concern about protest method and issues. The MS and HS non-protesters' concerns overlapped and differed. The
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Class matters—Children's perceptions of sports coaching Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Tanya Goosen, Alex Twitchen
The aim of the study was to acquire an insight into the experiences of 84 children from two schools in the United Kingdom who were asked to describe their interpretation of ‘excellent sports coaching’. Using visual and narrative research methods it was found that the influence of social class was significant. Children from higher socioeconomic groups described excellent sports coaching as a structured
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Girls engaging in activism to end child marriage in Sierra Leone: Negotiating power, interacting with others and redefining their own lives Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Patricio Cuevas-Parra, Yan Zhu
Children's right to participate has been one of the most challenging rights to implement due to dominant norms which position children under adults' authority. Notably, this has more negatively impacted girls than boys due to traditional gender norms and practices that often restrict girls' agency and are reproduced and unchallenged in many societies. To contest these struggles, young female activists
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Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Ahrong Yang
This article examines the concept of ‘child-friendliness’ through different notions of innocence in a Danish context. It looks at how such notions are upheld, negotiated and inform ideas of race, making race seem a concern primarily for adults. The analysis is based on empirical material conducted with children (age 11–12) and their discussions about a storyline for a video game. Here race becomes
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Jordanian children involvement within family consumption decision-making during COVID-19 Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Kholod Saleh Huneiti
The whole of society has been passing through difficult times due to the effects of COVID-19. Such a lengthy period has greatly impacted lifestyles and living standards. Accordingly, this paper aimed to examine the role of Jordanian children in purchasing decision-making within the framework of parental mediation during COVID-19. A quantitative methodology was applied, and a questionnaire targeted
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Agency, aspirations and citizenship: Non-formal education from the perspective of children in street situations in Pakistan Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Nermeen Khalid Kushtiwala, Humera Iqbal
This paper explores an NGO-based non-formal education (NFE) intervention in Pakistan from the perspective of its recipients, children in street situations. Recognizing children as agential beings, we draw on participant observation and in-depth semi-structured interviews with 20 children, aged 10–19 years. Young people discussed the impact of the intervention on their self-worth and future aspirations
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Ethiopian girls narratives of risk and governance of circular migration to the Arabian Gulf Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Tekalign Ayalew Mengiste, Tatek Abebe
This article explores Ethiopian girls' narratives of risks and vulnerability during their migratory journeys to, in and from Saudi Arabia. It discusses how risks of deprivation and abuse that drive girls to leave their homes are sustained during the migration process. The research primarily draws on interviews with 35 deported girls from Saudi Arabia to analyse intersecting structural, sociocultural
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The future of childhood studies By Rita Braches-Chyrek (ed.) Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2021. ISBN 978-3-8474-2448-2, 195 pp., $67.50 (hb) Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Marit Ursin
The material in the anthology The Future of Childhood Studies outlines how the field needs to and might develop in the future. After a decades-long theoretical hibernation, scholars of Childhood Studies have begun making a reconnaissance of our once-so-bold onto-epistemologies and breaking new grounds in terms of reconceptualizing children and childhood. This anthology is warmly welcomed as one of
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Youth participation processes in longitudinal out of home care research Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Brontё Walter, Lauren Parsons, Casey Croghan, Donna Chung
While there is growing recognition of the importance of meaningful youth participation in activities and decisions which impact their lives, facilitating such engagement within different forums requires varied approaches. A programme of youth research at one Western Australian university has sought to embed pathways for ongoing youth participation in longitudinal research. In particular, we discuss
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Being me in times of change: Young children's reflections on their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Euna Carpenter, Abigail Siegel, Sofia Urquiola, Judy Liu, Tamar Kushnir
Research from the perspective of parents, educators and mental health professionals has documented the negative impacts of pandemic isolation on children, but few studies have sought children's own perspectives on this difficult year. The current study aims to provide a first-person perspective on children's psychological health by asking children directly about their experiences of isolating at home
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Reconceptualising coproduction as activism together Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Christina McMellon, Pearse McCusker, Autumn Roesch-Marsh, Lauren Hall, Thomas Bartlett, Rachel McDermott
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life across the world in multiple ways and those already minoritised and disenfranchised, like care-experienced young people, bore the brunt of losses and mental health difficulties. This article reports on the findings of ‘Feeling Well, Feeling Cared For’ an innovative knowledge exchange project on care experience and mental health in Scotland that was seriously disrupted
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Children's personal lives in the family: Achieving relational agency and individual privacy in intrafamilial relationships in Türkiye Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Hamide Elif Üzümcü
This paper aims to explore how children's achieving privacy is interwoven with parental recognition of their agency, by providing empirical accounts of family lives in Türkiye. Building on a relational understanding of agency and privacy, it debates both concepts as social constructs that can be distinctively understood in western and Turkish cultures. It employs ethnographic research with children
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Relationship-based practice and contextual safeguarding: Approaches to working with young people experiencing extra-familial risk and harm Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Jenny Lloyd, Kristine Hickle, Rachael Owens, Delphine Peace
This article explores the synergies between relationship-based practice and contextual safeguarding when working with young people experiencing extra-familial risk and harm (EFRH). The article draws on data from interviews, observations, policy reviews and case files from two sites in England who are testing contextual safeguarding approaches to EFRH, including a children and families social work department
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Political representatives' experiences of child participation in decision-making processes: A qualitative interview study Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Annika Karlsson Juliussen, Pernilla Garmy, Ann-Margreth Olsson
The aim was to explore political representatives' experiences of child participation in decision-making processes in municipalities. Interviews were conducted with Swedish politicians (n = 7) representing four municipalities. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the data. Politicians had experiences in child participation and methods for involving children and young people in the practice
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Epistemic justice and injustice among youth with mental health concerns Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Andrea Greenblatt, Eunjung Lee, Rachelle Ashcroft, Barbara Muskat
This paper applied a critical narrative analysis to narratives of youth self-identifying as having mental health concerns. Instances of epistemic justice and injustice were identified related to youth's interactions with clinical and educational institutions as well as with parents and peers. Youth experienced instances of institutional ignorance related to their experiences, as well as implicit and
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Race, class, parenting and children's leisure: Children's leisurescapes and parenting cultures in middle-class British Indian families By Utsa Mukherjee, Bristol, United Kingdom: Bristol University Press. 2023. 182 pages. ISBN: 978-1529219517 Children & Society (IF 1.764) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Sampson Addo Yeboah
Coordinating children's leisurescapes and modern parenting strategies is important to policymakers and other childhood stakeholders. As Utsa Mukherjee claims in this monograph, the majority and specific discourses available have focused on majority white middle-class families—and in cases where ethnic black families have been featured, the focus on race has not been well articulated. Thus, according