scholarly journals Young people – citizens in times of climate change? A childist approach to human responsibility

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Sporre
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Global Discourse ◽  
Human Responsibility ◽  
Matters Of Concern

The matters of climate change are presently of concern existentially and ethically to the children and the youth. Worldwide school strikes in 2018–2019 and the Fridays for Future movement demonstrate how the young citizens assume socio-political responsibility. However, what possibilities do children and young people actually have to influence global discourse? Are adequate thought structures in place for them to be taken seriously in matters of concern to them? Given that children and youth engage with the issues of climate change, with a concern for their own future and that of our planet, the aim of this article was to take a child-centred ethical perspective and to theoretically explore conditions for intentional inclusion of children and their ethical concerns. In such a critical exploration, aspects of identity politics and intersectionality are reviewed. Empirical results from an interview study with children aged between 10 to 12 years are presented demonstrating that climate changes are of existential and ethical importance to them. Thereafter, a ‘childist’ perspective is introduced and discussed. The interviews were carried out during 2019 in eight schools in South Africa and Sweden. The children were individually interviewed with a method allowing for open responses. The schools in both countries were located in areas where a lack of water had been experienced. In this article, a theoretical framework is developed based on the ethical recognition of a commonly shared human responsibility and using the concept of ‘empowered inclusion’. It recognises children in their own right and identifies vulnerability and interdependence as being foundational to human existence.Contribution: In present times, as the concern for their own future, that of future generations and that of the planet is becoming an integral part of the identities of children and youth, both existentially and ethically, this article brings to this special issue a discussion of conditions for a child-centred view on human responsibility.

scholarly journals MAINTAINING CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH IN THE RISKS OF THE 21st CENTURY

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-86
Author(s):  
Sergii Boltivets
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social World ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Living Things ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mental Abilities

Among the threats and dangers of the future, our duty to the younger and future generations is to develop the instincts, feelings and self-preservation of children and young people, who by their very birth suffer from inventions, conflicts and crises inherited by all previous older generations. The dominants of future self-preservation are in the mental development of children and youth, the main of which we consider mental abilities, development of feelings and especially - a sense of empathy for all living things, as well as - the imagination of every child and young person. her own life and the lives of others. Our common methodology should be to understand that the social world is not simplified, but complicated, and we have a duty to prepare our children and young people to solve these complications.

scholarly journals ‘Positive recognition’ as a preventive approach in child and youth welfare services

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jouni Häkli ◽  
Riikka Korkiamäki ◽  
Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Child And Youth Welfare ◽  
Response Alternatives

The public welfare services provided to children and young people in Finland have proved insufficient and costly. Some concerns have also been voiced about the ways in which measures intended as supportive end up labelling their recipients as ‘problem youth’. In response, alternatives to the dominant ‘early intervention’ paradigm have been developed, with emphasis on preventive support for children and youth in general. In line with these policies, this article introduces the idea of ‘positive recognition’, developed in our recent study. Drawing from recognition theories, and in collaboration with professionals working with children and youth, we have developed a theoretically informed practical approach to fostering children and young people’s wellbeing at large, as part of everyday professional practices in institutional and non-institutional settings, and explored its potential in the prevention of social problems and marginalisation among children and youth. The paper provides a brief overview of the theoretical background of positive recognition in the context of social pedagogy, introduces how the approach can be implemented in professional practices with children and young people, and discusses the potentials of these alternative welfare practices to social pedagogy in Finland and beyond.

scholarly journals The Conditions for Successful Socialization of Children and Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 215-218
Author(s):  
Shujuan Jia
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Critical Part ◽  
The World

The successful socialization of today’s children and youth is a concern for the whole society, as well as many families. Correct and scientific circumstances must guide it. Teachers play a critical part in children’s and youth’s effective socialization. Teachers must give close attention to children and young people in the process of instilling accurate values, perspectives on life, and the world, as well as assisting them in effectively socializing them.  

scholarly journals Pranking in children's helpline calls

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Weatherall ◽  
S Danby ◽  
K Osvaldsson ◽  
J Cromdal ◽  
M Emmison
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Institutional Interaction ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Counselling Services

© 2016 The Australian Linguistics Society. Pranking can be understood as challenging a normative social order. One environment where pranking occurs is in institutional interaction. The present study examines a sample of pranking calls to telephone helplines for children and young people. Some cases had been posted on YouTube by the person doing the pranking; others were from a subcollection of possible pranks, extracted from a larger corpus of Australian children's counselling helpline calls. Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis we aim to understand the inferential and sequential resources involved in pranking within telephone-mediated counselling services for children and youth. Our analysis shows pranksters know the norms of counselling helplines by their practices employed for subverting them. YouTube pranksters exploit next turns of talk to retrospectively cast what the counsellor has just said as a possible challenge to the perception of the call as a normal counselling one. One practice evident in both sources was the setting up of provocative traps to break a linguistic taboo. This detailed study of pranking in interaction provides documentary evidence of its idiosyncratic yet patterned local accomplishment in telephone-mediated counselling services aimed at children and youth.

Residential programs for children and young people: What we need and what we don’t need

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Ainsworth
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Residential Programs ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Opinion Piece ◽  
Care System

This article is written as a bold opinion piece. It stems from the fact that once again we are seeing reports of abuse in residential care while at the same time there are calls for the reclaiming of residential care as a positive choice for children and youth. Yet there seems to be confusion as to exactly what function these programs should perform in the broader out-of-home care system. There are also important questions about the knowledge and skills that staff would require if such programs are to be non-abusive. A rejoinder to this opinion piece would be welcome.

Climate change victims

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-96
Author(s):  
Rob White
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Human Survival ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Ecological Citizenship ◽  
Ecological Justice

This chapter discusses the notion of victimhood as this pertains to climate change. Each section deals with a specific victim category — non-human environmental entities, children and young people, and Indigenous communities. Each grouping has its own specific histories, stories, and issues. What perhaps unites the discussion is an underlying emphasis on adopting an ecocentric perspective that incorporates social and ecological justice. From a human perspective, ecocentrism attempts to strike a balance between the need to utilise resources for human survival and the need to develop rules that facilitate the benign use of the ecosphere. Thus, for example, ensuring the preservation of biocentric values becomes integral to maintaining long-term human needs. To do this means minimising the victimisation of both the human and the non-human — in essence, to assert a form of ecological citizenship.

scholarly journals Family Foster Care: Can it Survive the Evidence?

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Ainsworth ◽  
Patricia Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Young People ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Family Foster Care ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Children In Care

The media coverage of foster care in Australia is replete with adoration for foster carers who look after disadvantaged and difficult children and youth. As this article is being written, New South Wales is holding a ‘foster care week’ with enhanced media coverage and praise for foster carers, the recruitment of new foster carers and acclaim for the ‘foster carer of the year’. Yet, there is another side to foster care that offers less than ideal circumstances for children in care. There is the worrying issue of multiple placements, the problem with children and young people running away from foster care before they reach the legal age for discharge, and evidence of increased incidence of poor educational attainment and involvement in juvenile offending for young people in foster care. In addition, there are cases of foster children being abused by foster carers. As adults, former foster-care children and youth are over-represented among the homeless, in adult correction centres, the unemployed and the users of mental health services. This article documents these negative outcomes of entering the foster-care system, and asks whether family (or non-relative) foster care can survive this evidence. For too many children and young people, family foster care may not provide better outcomes than less-than-optimal parental care from which the children were removed. An alternative is to reduce the use of family foster care and increase intensive support and parenting education services for birth parents who have limited parenting capacity. The aim should be to limit the number of children being taken into care.

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