scholarly journals Children’s participation idea and practice: Korczak’s inspirations and contemporary faces

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Ewa Jarosz
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

AbstractCurrently, children’s participation is one of the most promoted ideas of the social development. As mentioned in several resources, the Convention on the Rights of the Child has its roots in Janusz Korczak’s philosophy of a child and relations between a child and an adult and his pedagogy. The most fundamental Korczak’s thoughts, listening to a child and giving respect to his or her opinion, are well-known pillars of the contemporary children’s participation idea. However, there are much more Korc­zak’s inspirations that can be recognised in the current discourse about children’s participation. The paper shows and considers these inspirations, and on this basis some meaningful aspects of the idea of participation are presented.

scholarly journals Små barns medvirkning i samlingsstunder

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brit Johanne Eide ◽  
Ellen Os ◽  
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Circle Time ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

Title: Young children’s participation during circle time. Abstract: In day schedules of early childhood education, circle time has traditionally been one of the core situations. According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, children should be given opportunity to influence their everyday life. This article presents an analysis of circle time in 8 toddler groups. The focus of the analysis is children’s opportunities to participate and take part in the process of decision-making during circle time. The results indicate that the toddlers take part in community of the group, but their opportunities to influence are limited.

scholarly journals Love, rights and solidarity: Studying children’s participation using Honneth’s theory of recognition

Childhood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

Recent attempts to theorize children’s participation have drawn on a wide range of ideas, concepts and models from political and social theory. The aim of this article is to explore the specific usefulness of Honneth’s theory of a ‘struggle for recognition’ in thinking about this area of practice. The article identifies what is distinctive about Honneth’s theory of recognition, and how it differs from other theories of recognition. It then considers the relevance of Honneth’s conceptual framework to the social position of children, including those who may be involved in a variety of ‘participatory’ activities. It looks at how useful Honneth’s ideas are in direct engagement with young people’s praxis, drawing on ethnographic research with members of a children and young people’s forum. The article concludes by reflecting on the implications of this theoretical approach and the further questions which it opens up for theories of participation and of adult–child relations more generally.

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 SOCIAL AND LEGAL DISCOURSE OF CHILDREN’S PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING IN POLAND AND RUSSIA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
KRYSTYNA HELAND-KURZAK ◽  
ALEXANDRA FILIPOVA
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Search Process ◽  
The Core ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
Legal Policies ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
The Right

This article draws attention to online discourse of children’s participation in decision-making. The participation of children is located in one of the core principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This study examines the right of the child to express his/her opinion and the participation of the child in matters affecting his/her interests. This paper aims to compare Poland and Russia results in the search process in the Google global search engine, level from 2004 to 2019 using Google Trends. We discover that there are connecting discourses among legal policies in Poland and Russia. There are also differences between clusters of arguments about existence of children’s rights in practice. ice.

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.

'The best holidays I ever had': the benefits of social tourism programmes for children at risk of poverty and social exclusion.

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
Cátia Loureiro ◽  
Celeste Eusébio ◽  
Elisabete Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
Summer Holiday ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

Abstract This chapter analyses children's participation in the social tourism programme promoted by the 'O Século' Foundation in Portugal. A literature review is first presented, which discusses both the constraints of poverty and social exclusion in childhood and the relevance of social tourism programmes in mitigating its effects and promoting social inclusion. The chapter then presents an analysis of 131 questionnaires and 132 drawings, collected during the 2014 summer holiday camps of the 'O Século' Foundation. Results are discussed in terms of children's motivations, satisfaction levels and perceived benefits from the social tourism programme.

Children’s participation: moving from the performative to the social

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deirdre Horgan ◽  
Catherine Forde ◽  
Shirley Martin ◽  
Aisling Parkes
Keyword(s):  
The Social ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

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. 

scholarly journals CHILD PARTICIPATION IN FAMILY DECISION-MAKING: THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE RUSSIAN PARENTS’ FORUM

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
ALEXANDRA FILIPOVA
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Human Becoming ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Family Issues ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
The Right

The topic of children's participation in various issues was updated in the second half of the last century. It was largely due to the adoption of an important international document such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children are as important participants in social life as adults so they have the right to express their opinions on various issues related to their activities, as well as to take into account these opinions by adults in decision-making in the family, in school, in the community, etc. Russian society is dominated by the traditional discourse of the perception of children as human becoming, socially and mentally immature, not-yet-an-adult. To study the parental discourse of children's participation in family issues, empirical material of the network discussion organized at the parental forum called Vladmama (Vladivostok, Russia) is used. In order to organize the discussion, an information injection was carried out. It was the description of the imagined problematic situation of child-parental relations on the issue of child’s participation in family affairs. The 81 messages received from 25 users were analyzed according to James Gee approach.  Seven Gee’s “building tasks” (Activities; Identities; Relationships; Politics; Connections; Sign Systems and Knowledge) are researched on the materials of mother’s forum. The process of creating value is always connected with the exercise of power. In our case, mothers using their power as parents redefine the meanings of children's participation. The main resource that opens the way for adults to power is money. Earning money is interpreted by the participants of the forum as a way for a child to involve in the adult’s world, an opportunity to legalize the child’s right to express his/her own opinion and defend this opinion. Other sources of parent’s power are their own life experience, knowledge and social skills.

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