scholarly journals Discourses about Daily Activity Contracts: A Ground for Children’s Participation?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Bosisio ◽  
Manuela Olagnero
Keyword(s):  
Daily Activity ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Speaking Up ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Family ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

The paper presents the findings of a secondary analysis of qualitative research conducted in Turin (Northern Italy) in 2012–2013 on autonomy and responsibility in the relationships between children and parents. A total of 46 parents and 48 children aged 9–13 were interviewed. The secondary analysis focuses on a specific section of the in-depth interview dealing with daily activity contracts. The aim is to investigate children’s participation in everyday life through children’s and parents’ narratives about daily activity contracts. Thematic analysis of this section of the interviews shows that children make room for acquiring such relational and dialogue skills as self-confidence and speaking up, which are recognized to be essential for any level and type of participation. Moreover, children’s and parents’ discourses on daily activity contracts provide an opportunity to “cultivate” participation and autonomy through a sort of alliance between parents and children in decision-making. The question is whether these dialogic attitudes and negotiation abilities are a resource not restricted to the family sphere but which extends to other areas of participation that go beyond the realm of private, protected, and reversible choices.

scholarly journals Den private religion: Fortolkninger af muslimske børns religiøse tilhørsforhold i en dansk folkeskole

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Marianne Holm Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
School Leadership ◽  
School Life ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Private Matter ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Role Of Religion

While the teaching of religion in the Danish folkeskole is a widely debated issue, there is little knowledge about how parents of Muslim background relate to the role of religion in the children’s daily school life. This article explores the meanings that teachers and parents at a school in the Danish province attribute to Muslim children’s religious backgrounds. Based on interviews with school leadership, teachers, parents and children, it particularly examines how they interpret the course ‘knowledge of Christianity’ and how they view the division of responsibility for teaching children about religion. It argues that while both parents and teachers understand religious belonging as a private matter that does not concern the school, they have different understandings of what this means and what it should imply for the children’s participation in school activities. The article further argues that the so-called encounter between ‘Muslim practices’ and ‘Danish values’ rather constitutes yet another example of negotiations that have always taken place in modern Danish society between the institutions of family and school.

scholarly journals Pergeseran Model Pendampingan Penggunaan Media Digital oleh Orangtua pada Anak di Masa Pandemi COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Syifa Syarifah Alamiyah ◽  
Ade Kusuma ◽  
Juwito Juwito ◽  
Didiek Tranggono
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Parental Assistance ◽  
Time Restrictions ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post Online

As an effort to control and handle COVID-19, the government has issued a school from home (SFH) policy. This policy has forced children to stay at home and carry out learning using digital media. This situation has an impact on increasing the use of digital media and the involvement of parents in children's learning significantly. This study explores the use of digital media in children in Surabaya during the pandemic period and how parents can assist the use of these media. This research uses qualitative methods with in-depth interview techniques. Researchers distributed questionnaires about the use of digital media to 66 parents, and nine parents stated that they were willing to become informants. The results show that in addition to a significant increase in the time to use digital media during the pandemic, the pandemic has also changed the parental assistance and supervision of children. Before the pandemic, the assistance model was carried out more with technical restrictions, in the form of time restrictions, content access, application choices, and the number of data packages (restrictive mediation). However, during a pandemic, the mentoring model was carried out with active mediation through discussions and critical thinking, active together with devices, close surveillance, and monitoring on applications and post online activities (active mediation, co-using, supervision, monitoring). One of the pandemic's positive impacts is the opening of discussion spaces between parents and children, the opportunity to use gadgets together, and opportunities for children and parents to learn digital skills.

scholarly journals Fathers and Sons through the Lens of Ownership of Residential Premises

Lex Russica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (10) ◽  
pp. 26-35
Author(s):  
I. A. Mikhailova
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Fathers And Sons ◽  
The Right ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Legislative Measures

The paper examines the sociolegal and economic significance of legislative measures taken to support families with children and granting the possibility of using maternal (family) fund for the acquisition, construction or reconstruction of residential premises. It analyzes numerous issues related to the acquisition, registration, exercise and protection of joint tenancy (the right to common share ownership of residential premises) acquired in this way, including: the procedure for determining the share in the ownership of residential premises acquired in this manner. The paper also examines factors on which the size of the share of each of the family members depends and parties to the agreements concluded regarding such a distribution. Much attention is also paid to the issues of whether it is mandatory, when determining the size of a share in the ownership of a dwelling, to take into account the opinion of a child who has reached the age of 10, and the competition between the rights and interests of parents and children in respect of dwellings belonging to them on the basis of a joint tenancy (common share property). On the basis of the analysis of the Soviet and Russian civil and housing legislation in order to prevent the violation of the rights of parents to such property by adult children living with them, the author makes a proposal to legally restrict the administrative powers belonging to children.The author summarizes that the presence of an indissoluble consanguinity in the form of the origin of children from parents and the efforts of parents to take care of the child’s health, to meet the child’s needs, to provide conditions for the child’s full development and education necessitate a special legal consolidation of the rights to living premises belonging to children and parents on the ground of the right to joint tenancy (common shared ownership). The inclusion into Art. 246 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation of provisions restricting the administrative powers of adult children will constitute another step towards the humanization of Russian civil legislation.

scholarly journals Facilitators and Barriers of Children's Participation in Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Interventions: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 112-112
Author(s):  
Priscilla Clayton ◽  
Jeneene Connelly ◽  
Malik Ellington ◽  
Vicky Rojas ◽  
Yaisli Lorenzo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Obesity Interventions ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Compensation Incentives

Abstract Objectives To conduct a systematic review of facilitators and barriers for children's participation in nutrition, physical activity, and obesity interventions from the perspective of parents, children, and researchers. Methods Studies were identified from 5 databases and restricted to children 2–18 years and to English. Studies without results on facilitator and barriers of recruitment were excluded. Results 423 records were identified; 97 duplicates and 269 unrelated records were initially excluded; 60 records were reviewed for full-text and subsequently 26 were excluded, for a total of 34 included studies. The top four barriers reported by children and parents were time constraints, nature of the intervention, limited understanding of clinical trial information or complexity of consent/trial info, and cost, while for researchers reported barriers were lack of transportation/lack of or childcare and time constraints. The top four common facilitators reported by children and parents were benefit others (altruism) and themselves, compensation/incentives, nature of the intervention, and quality of life, while for researchers these were physician recommendations/referrals, benefits to others and themselves, simple and clear materials describing the study and the inclusion criteria, and compensation/incentives. Conclusions These barriers and facilitators should be addressed in future studies to assist in the successful recruitment of children into nutrition, physical activity, and obesity interventions. Funding Sources Funding was supported by the National Institute of Health (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NICHD), grant number 1R01HD098589-01.

scholarly journals Child Participation in Russia: Theoretical and Practical Developments

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-87
Author(s):  
T.O. Archakova ◽  
E.S. Garifulina
Keyword(s):  
Applied Research ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Child Participation ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children’S Views ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Different Levels

The article analyzes the development of practice and development of theoretical grounds for child participation in contemporary Russia. Children’s participation is considered as an interdisciplinary field of research, and as the practice of taking into account children’s views at different levels: in everyday life, in family and in local community, in organizations and in self-government bodies. Children are considered as reflective actors: co-authors of research and evaluation of social projects. The analysis uses publications describing the practice and results of researching children’s participation; key legal documents; materials from expert discussions, as well as data on relevant international experience. Data on the views of various stakeholders — specialists, parents, and children themselves — on the issues of child participation are compared and contrasted. The authors conclude that there is no unified system of child participation in Russia, and the most common approaches to its study vary in their methodological groundings. The current situation does not pose serious controversy and threats to the development of children’s participation; it may be favorable for the diversification and competition of approaches to development of child participation practices and their study. Recommendations are given on the themes of further applied research.

Using an interactive communication tool in healthcare situations: Patterns in young children’s use of participation cues

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Stålberg ◽  
Anette Sandberg ◽  
Imelda Coyne ◽  
Thomas Larsson ◽  
Maja Söderbäck
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Interactive Technology ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Interactive Communication ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Children's Participation

This study forms part of a larger project about developing and using interactive technology to facilitate young children’s participation in healthcare situations. Children’s participation in these situations improves their motivation and situated understanding. Likewise, their participation helps professionals to more fully understand the child’s perspective. In the project, an interactive communication tool, that is, an application suitable for tablet use, was developed with children, aged three to five, in two clinical settings. When tested, the children’s participation cues, identified from video recordings of healthcare situations, were understood as having curious, thoughtful or affirmative meanings. This study aimed to investigate the similarities and differences in the young children’s use of participation cues when using an interactive communication tool in healthcare situations. A secondary analysis of the identified cues was performed focusing on age, setting and examination or procedure. In total, 2167 cues were identified representing either curious, thoughtful or affirmative cues. The curious cues were mainly used (66%), followed by thoughtful (28%) and affirmative (6%) cues. Differences in cue usage were seen in relation to the children’s age and setting. Knowing how children may react to common healthcare procedures may help increase healthcare professionals’ awareness of the need to support children in an individual and situational way.

scholarly journals An un/familiar space: children and parents as collaborators in autoethnographic family research

2021 ◽  
pp. 146879412199901
Author(s):  
Sabine Little ◽  
Toby Little
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Language ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Third Space Theory ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Family ◽  
Neutral Space ◽  
Two Generations

This paper, coauthored by mother and son (aged 10 at the time of writing, 12 at time of revisions), reports on the collaborative research experience during a 2.5-year-long autoethnographic study, which focused on bringing back the family heritage language after a 2-year break. Through a joint research diary, we regularly and rigorously chronicled both language-related conversations and our emotions linked to the process of bringing back the heritage language. Frustration, guilt, joy, exasperation, and pride were jointly discussed via what we call an un/familiar space. This paper explores the evolution of this space, linking it to Bhabha’s third space theory and Gadamer’s fusion of horizons. We present the un/familiar space both as an epistemological stance and as a methodological tool for intergenerational autoethnography, enabling both parents and children to engage with each other in a more neutral space, deliberately removed from traditional family roles. Further, we critically engage with the role of children as co-creators of knowledge within this space, contributing longitudinal data of co-construction and critical reflection from two generations to the research community.

scholarly journals The Elderly and Life’s Channels: The Threads of Life

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (32) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Elma Jazz Elma-Macrohon
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationship ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
To Come

This study was undertaken with the aim to validate the assumption in JEM’s Theory on Intergenerational Visits to the Elderly, which states that Intergenerational visits promote socialization, that spirals into family solidarity, quality time shared; that affords the elderly parents more meanings, purposes, significance in their lives, the feeling of successfully aging, and make family relationship tighter everytime it happens. It is also to come up with narrative materials from the experiences of the informant-elderly during intergenerational visits, together with children, grandchildren, friends and relatives, before, during, and after the visitation. The method used is narrative inquiry. Interview schedules were used both in Filipino and English. There were recorded interviews and later transcriptions of them, then a story was woven entitled: “The Elderly and Life’s Channels: The Threads of Life”. There were six parents interviewed equal to six families. The characters in the narrations are representatives from these families. Findings proved that, “intergenerational visits to the elderly”, is a key factor to improve the social relationship between children and parents and between and among parents and children. Other findings were on the smooth and rough (conflicts) events in the family, but the latter mended by the faithful observance of intergenerational visits, which serve as the knot that binds family members together, because the former promotes socialization. It is recommended that Intergenerational visits be included in the yearly activities for the elderly people or the senior citizens, by their respective family members, often or even far in-between.

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