Embedding Young Children’s Participation Rights into Research: How the Interactive Narrative Approach Enhances Meaningful Participation

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Mayne ◽  
Christine Howitt
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Interactive Narrative ◽  
Meaningful Participation ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

scholarly journals Play: Fostering relationships that inspire positive change in young people’s meaningful participation

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura H.V. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Meaningful Participation ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
The Right

Despite play’s recognition in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and evidence that play is beneficial to children’s development, and a vehicle to support realization of other children’s rights, it is one of the most neglected rights of the child. An overarching devalue of play has implications on its relationship with children’s participation rights and correspondingly the realization of young people’s meaningful participation. This article explores the interplay between the right to play and children’s participation rights. Drawing upon a participatory play-based research qualitative study with young people at a youth-driven child rights workshop entitled XXXX and interviews with adults, the article considers the role of play in relational development for meaningful participation, as well as the devalue of play across young people and adults.  The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of findings and provides recommendations for the role of play to co-create transformative participatory environments in research, policy, and programs.

scholarly journals Children helping to co-construct a digital tool that is designed to increase children’s participation in child welfare investigations in Sweden

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502199086
Author(s):  
Helena Blomberg ◽  
Gunnel Östlund ◽  
Philip Rautell Lindstedt ◽  
Baran Cürüklü
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

How do children (aged 6–12 years) understand and make use of a digital tool that is under development? This article builds on an ongoing interdisciplinary research project in which children, social workers (the inventers of this social innovation) and researchers together develop an interactive digital tool (application) to strengthen children’s participation during the planning and process of welfare assessments. Departing from social constructionism, and using a discursive narrative approach with visual ethnography, the aim of the article is to display how the children co-construct the application and contribute with “stories of life situations” by drawing themselves as characters and the places they frequent. The findings show that the children improved the application by suggesting more affordances so that they could better create themselves/others, by discovering bugs, and by showing how it could appeal to children of various ages. The application helped the children to start communicating and bonding when creating themselves in detail, drawing places/characters and describing events associated with them, and sharing small life stories. The application can help children and social workers to connect and facilitate children’s participation by allowing them to focus on their own perspectives when drawing and sharing stories.

scholarly journals Understanding Children’s Participation through an Eliasian Lens: Habitus as a Barrier to Children’s Everyday Participation Rights

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Hester ◽  
Allison Moore
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Moral Competence ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Children's Participation

In spite of the rhetoric of children’s participation in the public sphere, in their everyday life interactions young children’s rights continue to be denied or given entitlement on the basis of assumptions about the social category to which they belong, and opportunities continue to be missed to make links between the everyday and the societal, political and legal contexts by those wishing to further children’s participation rights. Drawing on the sociology of Norbert Elias, particularly his concept of “habitus” and “drag effect” we will explore the dissonance between the public and private status of young children’s rights and suggest ways that this might be remedied. The paper will conclude by arguing that it is important to work towards young children’s increased participation rights in their everyday lives because adults must acknowledge young children’s moral competence to participate in decisions about their everyday lives in order to develop children’s agency to do so.

scholarly journals Child in court: intersection of justice spacesand participation rights exercise

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Helga Cláudia Castro
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Children's Participation

In the Portuguese judicial system, the justice spaces were designed by adults and structured for adults, and they embrace both relational dimension and power exercise –privacy is publicized, competencies are monitored, and weaknesses are scrutinized. Research, implemented thru a multiple case study, aimed to assessment children’s participation rights exercise in those same spaces. It is confirmed that childhood and children’s conceptualizations have repercussions on praxis, since there is an image that associates them with lack of capacity, mirrored in and by their minority. Therefore, perpetuating children and childhood's exclusion moments, witnessing prejudice reproduction and an endemic culture of non-participation. Thus, child's contemporaneity must be valued, both for its presence in the breadth of human life and for the valid, and valuable contribution it makes to the composition of its living worlds.

"It's Like Mental Torture": Participation and Mental Health Services

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda LeFrançois
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Child Psychiatry ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Treatment Plans ◽  
Children's Participation

AbstractThis article discusses findings from an ethnographic research study looking at the ways in which children's participation rights are incorporated within an adolescent mental health inpatient unit. The practitioners working within this setting have reinterpreted the concept of 'participation' to suit a coercive agenda associated with the authoritarian medical model of treatment used within child psychiatry. Indeed, the use of the term 'participation' has become a tool to enforce children's compliance with adult (and practitioner) determined treatment plans. For the most part, the barriers to according children's participation rights within this setting relate to the institution's and practitioners' protectionist stance vis-à-vis children who are deemed informally to be both vulnerable and incompetent.

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