scholarly journals Methodology of Modern Research Concerning Childhood – The Perspective of Childhood Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Jarosz
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Epistemological Perspective ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Data Survey ◽  
Methodological Aspects

Modern research concerning childhood has been developing mostly based on the concept of children’s rights, which is seen not only in the topics of research but also in the objectives and methodological aspects. The aim of the paper is to show how respecting children’s subjectivity and their right to voice opinions in matters that affect them are reflected in childhood studies by means of the specific epistemological perspective, which is seeing the reality through children’s eyes, and the preference for some methodological solutions, i.e. the types of research and the applied methods that are useful in obtaining reports, opinions and assessment of children. The analysis of scientific and research discourse allowed identification of several preferred methodological types of childhood studies, i.e. ethnographic, meta-analytical using big data, survey and longitudinal research. It also allowed indication of the current which is developed in research on childhood and is related to promotion of participatory research with children.

scholarly journals Child-led research, children’s rights and childhood studies: A defence

Childhood ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 090756822199674
Author(s):  
Nigel Patrick Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Ethics Of Research

Recent articles by Kim and Hammersley have critiqued, respectively: the methodological and normative assumptions that underlie research ‘by’ children; claims made about the implications of children’s rights for the ethics of research with children; and more broadly, some of the central commitments of Childhood Studies. This paper offers a response to these critiques, seeking to distinguish between those that clearly should be accepted, those that appear to be based on a misreading of the claims being made by scholars and researchers, and those that represent serious challenges to defend, redefine or rethink our aims, claims or practices.

scholarly journals Child Protection in the Event of Parents’ Divorce – Conceptualization of the Subject of the Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-204
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Turczyk
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Research Concept ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Constructing Knowledge

SummaryThe article is preconceptual in its nature, as it is an introduction to a planned research project in the area of pedagogy and law. The author describes the research in current trends in modern childhood studies, choosing the protection of children’s rights in the event of their parents’ separation as the basic research category. This category will be analyzed in ontological, epistemological and methodological dimensions. In view of the growing scale of family breakdowns, it becomes justified to ask a question about the way of experiencing, understanding and constructing knowledge about the subject of pedagogical and legal interactions – the child themself. Building knowledge about a child whose parents separate is not only intended to expand and build interdisciplinary theoretical knowledge, but also to provide a basis for designing adequate tools and activities to protect the rights of a child experiencing their parents’ separation. This article provides an outline of a research concept aimed at protecting children’s rights. The article contains extensive justifications for the research topic and the framework of the methodological concept.

scholarly journals “Revolution is the Equality of Children and Adults”: Yaşar Kemal Interviews Street Children, 1975

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Nazan Maksudyan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

Abstract In 1975, the world-famous novelist Yaşar Kemal (1923–2015) undertook a series of journalistic interviews with street children in Istanbul. The series, entitled “Children Are Human” (Çocuklar İnsandır), reflects the author's rebellious attitude as well as the revolutionary spirit of hope in the 1970s in Turkey. Kemal's ethnographic fieldwork with street children criticized the demotion of children to a less-than-human status when present among adults. He approached children's rights from a human rights angle, stressing the humanity of children and that children's rights are human rights. The methodological contribution of this research to the history of children and youth is its engagement with ethnography as historical source. His research provided children the opportunity to express their political subjectivities and their understanding of the major political questions of the time, specifically those of social justice, (in)equality, poverty, and ethnic violence encountered in their everyday interactions with politics in the country. Yaşar Kemal's fieldwork notes and transcribed interviews also bring to light immense injustices within an intersectional framework of age, class, ethnicity, and gender. The author emphasizes that children's political agency and their political protest is deeply rooted in their subordination and misery, but also in their dreams and hopes. Situating Yaşar Kemal's “Children Are Human” in the context of the 1970s in Turkey, I hope to contribute to childhood studies with regard to the political agency of children as well as to the history of public intellectuals and newspapers in Turkey and to progressive representations of urban marginalization.

Children's rights in and out of the womb

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Montgomery ◽  
Marc Cornock
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Legal Personhood ◽  
The Law ◽  
Sociology Of Childhood

AbstractThis article looks at the extent to which children's rights are applicable to the unborn. It focuses on England and Wales but also uses law and practice in other countries for comparative purposes. From the dual perspectives of the law and the anthropology/sociology of childhood, the authors examine how the unborn are constructed in law and culture and what this says about the boundaries between life and non-life, child and foetus, person and non-person. They also discuss the reluctance that many who work in childhood studies, and on children's rights, have shown in discussing the controversial question of when childhood begins. The article then examines differing ideas about when children are granted social and legal personhood and the various and often-contradictory positions taken by the law, parents, health care professionals and in more general debates.

scholarly journals CHILDREN’S RIGHTS AND CHILDHOOD STUDIES AS A CHALLENGE AND A DRIVER OF SOCIAL CHANGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
URSZULA MARKOWSKA-MANISTA ◽  
ANNA ODROWĄŻ-COATES
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Parental Roles ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
The Family ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Selection Of

This paper contains an introduction to a selection of papers across social sciences and humanities, based on empirical explorations and theoretical conceptualizations. Authors highlight the issues of parental roles, parental styles, child and family positioning in the family and society. The lens of children’s rights and participatory approaches is also discussed. Authors focus on diverse practices in parenting, different approaches to children’s agency and freedom of choice, family as a negotiated space mediated by culture, children’s position in family and society, life chances and wellbeing, critical approaches to children’s rights perspectives, early intervention, socio-political context, finally Freire’s and Korczak’s pedagogies.

scholarly journals The participation of children in social research. Introduction to the issue

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Zalewska-Królak
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
The Subject

The perspective of childhood studies has existed in science since the 1990s. Currently, it is considered as a paradigm. The article concerns one of the assumptions of this theoretical orientation – the participation of children in research. The analysis of the concept includes both positive and critical stances expressed in the subject literature. The text contains an analysis of the main assumptions of childhood studies and their relationship to the participatory approach to research. Moreover, it presents types of participatory research with children, considering the degree of their participation. The article refers to numerous examples of both research and specific techniques applied.  

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