scholarly journals ‘Why am I in all of these pictures?’ From Learning Stories to Lived Stories: the politics of children’s participation rights in documentation practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Caralyn Blaisdell ◽  
Lynn J. McNair ◽  
Luke Addison ◽  
John M. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Learning Stories ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

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.

scholarly journals Seen and Heard? Children's Participation Rights and Corporate Responsibility

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Maureen O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Business Principles ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Corporate Social

Scholars in the fields of sociology, child development and human rights have focused on conceptualizations of children as well as the shift from viewing children as mere adjuncts to adults to distinct rights-holders. Researchers in the fields of business and management studies explore the interplay of business responsibility and society in general. What remains relatively unexplored in either literature is the nexus of business and the human rights of children. In particular, children’s participation rights remain largely ignored. People living with poverty at any age often cite a lack of agency and participation as one of the more onerous aspects of deprivation. The paper suggests that when policies and programs for which the poor are targeted do not include their meaningful participation, the same loss of control and dignity occurs once more. This holds as true for corporate social responsibility initiatives as any other poverty alleviation effort. The research assumes it is the role of States and NGOs to foster a climate of participation that avoids objectifying children and instead views them as rights-holders. The research questions how well the participation rights of children are accounted for in business in view of the fact that the CRC is the world's most widely ratified human rights instrument. The paper highlights the potential offered by recent efforts from the Committee on the Rights of the Child through General Comment 16 as well as the new Children's Rights and Business Principles to meaningfully engage children. It concludes, however, with a call to move from well-intentioned but ad hoc measures to mainstreaming children's participation rights in all interactions within the realm of business, particularly in this early stage when getting rights right is critical. 

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