Discourses of Children's Participation: Professionals, Policies and Practices

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Pinkney
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into

This article explores the dynamic field of children's participation and provides fresh insight into its construction within professional frameworks as well as within the social policy process. Protectionism, developmentalism, rights and managerialism are identified as significant discourses and this article explores their articulation and negotiation through policies. The argument is that the settlement reached represents a new configuration within policy frameworks relating to children where a version of children's rights is appropriated and mainstreamed. The interaction between children's rights, managerialism and professional discourses are illustrated with reference to policy and legislation.

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 Esports and the Platforming of Child’s Play During covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 496-520
Author(s):  
Valerie Verdoodt ◽  
Robbie Fordyce ◽  
Lisa Archbold ◽  
Faith Gordon ◽  
Damian Clifford
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
Child's Play ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
The Right

Abstract The coronavirus pandemic has significantly restricted children’s opportunities for play and socialisation with friends in physical outside spaces. As a consequence, children’s participation in educational, play and entertainment activities are now predominantly taking place online. One form of online play which has become immensely popular with a young audience, is esports. However, esports and the platforming of play have been associated with public health concerns and excessive commercialisation. This paper will therefore address these issues through the lens of children’s rights, in particular the right to play and the right to protection from exploitation. It will explore whether esports can contribute to the realisation of the right to play and enable other rights such as the right to development, assembly and freedom of expression during covid-19.

scholarly journals Integrating Children and Youth Participation into Resilience Planning

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-199
Author(s):  
Victoria Derr ◽  
Maria Sitzoglou ◽  
Tuline Gülgönen ◽  
Yolanda Corona
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Diverse Nations

Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989 places obligations on States to provide opportunities for children to express their opinions and to have these opinions be taken seriously in matters that affect their lives. While many studies from around the world have shown that children and youth can meaningfully participate to inform a wide range of issues, wide-scale implementation of children’s participation and thus the realization of children’s rights, is still not widely achieved. In the context of planning for urban resilience, three cities in three diverse nations approached integration of children and youth into resilience planning, with varying success. While each city was able to support children’s voicing of perspectives facilitators also struggled with how to authentically integrate youth voices into a new realm of planning—for urban resilience. This article thus shares the approaches and objectives from each city and reflects on what can be learned from these experiences when trying to integrate children and youth opinions and perspectives into community planning, particularly when guided by international frameworks or agendas. While each city has some success in realizing children’s rights to participate, to a certain extent, lack of municipal frameworks for participation and lack of knowledge about and support for children’s participation among municipal leaders inhibited the realization of children’s participation.

scholarly journals Adults’ Endorsement of Children’s Protection and Participation Rights and Likelihood of Reporting Abuse

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-377
Author(s):  
Ashling Bourke ◽  
Sonia Morris ◽  
Catherine Maunsell
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Two Age Groups

Children’s rights only serve their purpose in as far as they are recognised as rights by those who can exercise them. This study examined a sample of Irish adults’ (predominantly students; n=83) perceptions of children’s participation and protection rights across two age groups of children (seven- and 14-year-olds). Participants completed the Perceptions of Children’s Rights Questionnaires and likelihood of reporting child abuse online. A within-groups four-factor anova examined differences between the perceptions participation and protection rights across the two age categories. Participants endorsed protection rights more than participation rights for both age groups and reported a higher endorsement of protection rights and a lower endorsement of participation rights for seven-year-olds compared with 14-year-olds. Participants were more likely to report the abuse of a seven-year-old compared with a 14-year-old, and participants’ endorsement of protection rights significantly predicted likelihood of reporting abuse. These findings have implications for how children’s rights are viewed in Irish society and how these rights may be enacted.

The construction of children's rights in education – a research synthesis

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Quennerstedt
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Research Synthesis ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Research Interest ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Research Publications ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

AbstractThis paper presents a research synthesis that aims to clarify and discuss how children's rights in education are constructed in research. A basic assumption is accordingly that research is an important participant in the process in which principal meanings and essential aspects of children's rights take shape. In the synthesis, 35 research publications, published between 1997-2008, have been selected and analysed. The main findings show that the research interest centres on four main themes: 1) Human rights orientation, 2) Education difficult to change, 3) Children's participation rights, and 4) Children's rights – parents' rights. In research, essential aspects of education are highlighted as matters of children's rights and the research construction give rise to some important insights that call for further research on children's rights in education.

scholarly journals Children's Rights in Rwanda: A Hierarchical or Parallel Model of Implementation?

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Murray
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Parallel Model ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Elite Interviews ◽  
Children's Participation

AbstractThe paper reports on a qualitative study, entitled Children's Rights in Rwanda, which was conducted in Kigali, Rwanda in 2007. Qualitative interviews were conducted with government ministers, senior staff in non-governmental organisations, Human Rights Commissioners, a Senior Prosecutor and the Ombudsman. Two focus groups were held with teenage pupils. The study explores the key children's rights – provision, protection and participation – enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The research question is whether children's participation rights feature in Rwanda, a country in which children's rights to provision and to protection are still being addressed. A parallel model and a hierarchical model of implementing children's rights are proposed and the use of elite interviews discussed. A key finding is that a parallel model of implementation of children's rights is evident, with children's right to participation (at least in the public sphere) being addressed alongside children's right to provision and protection. In the private sphere, children's participation rights lag behind.

scholarly journals Being Children: Children’s Voices on Childhood

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 698-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Cassidy ◽  
Sarah-Jane Conrad ◽  
Marie-France Daniel ◽  
Maria Figueroia-Rego ◽  
Walter Kohan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Children’S Voices

Situated in the context of children’s rights, this article reports on a study involving children from 11 countries and 5 continents in philosophical discussions about concepts of child and childhood. Here we focus on seven of those countries. In a previous study, two of the authors explored in what kind of society children would like to live. The present study directly addresses one of the issues arising from that study: to investigate what children think childhood is and their place in society. The study raises issues around children’s participation related to their conceptions of child and childhood.

scholarly journals Directions for Improving the System of Social Protection of the Population of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
pp. 168-173
Author(s):  
T. Gitis ◽  
◽  
M. Lysenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
The Social

This scientific article is devoted to the current issue of the year – the development of the social sphere and ways to improve the social protection of the Ukrainian population. The purpose of this article is to investigate the peculiarities of formation and development of the system of social protection of the population, its analysis and suggestions for improvement of the system of social protection of Ukraine. The research has revealed that an important place in the social policy of present-day Ukraine belongs to the system of social protection of the population. The extensiveness of social protection of the population depends on the social policy being reversed and, accordingly, on the volume of its financial support. Through the system of social protection are achieved certain goals of social policy, in particular the system of social protection. The main indicators of the standard of living of the population and social assistance programs, which were implemented in 2019, are reviewed. Based on the analysis of the state of social security of certain categories of people, the research identified the main directions of state regulation in the sphere of social protection of the population that require improvement. The Concept of Implementation of the State Policy on Social Protection of Population and Protection of Children's Rights. The implementation of this Concept, in our opinion, will increase the efficiency of social protection of the population due to the professional capacity of the social protection system employees, also to exercise control over the observance of legal requirements while providing social support and protection of children's rights.

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