MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'Childhood' source. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:25:25 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272679&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F17%2F1%2F151%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272679 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:01:21 +0100 3272679 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272678&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F17%2F1%2F149%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272678 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:01:21 +0100 3272678 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272677&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F1%2F129%3Frss%3D1 This article discusses children as contributors to sustainable ecological development. The aim of the article is to develop a framework for researching two questions: What are the prerequisites for children to become responsible environmentalists? What actual and potential influence do children have on their family’s consumption? Three theoretical perspectives are elaborated in relation to relevant empirical research: children as cosmopolitan actors and world citizens, children as ‘subjects of responsibilization’ in relation to the discourse on sustainable development and children as actors influencing family negotiations about consumption. The article concludes by suggesting methodological implications that follow from this framework. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272677 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:01:21 +0100 3272677 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272676&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F1%2F113%3Frss%3D1 This article introduces the concepts of diaspora and transnational networks to research on children with migrant backgrounds. It is based on interviews with children who live in a Swedish multicultural area and the research questions focus on issues relating to diasporic consciousness and diasporic practices from a child’s perspective. The results show how the children negotiate their identity and belongings to places, how they make their own distinctions between home and homeland and how in everyday life they actively contribute to sustaining transnational kin networks. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272676 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:01:21 +0100 3272676 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272675&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F1%2F94%3Frss%3D1 This article examines how American middle-class children learn and acquire culturally appropriate emotions and sentiments, focusing especially on children’s experiences. By analysing children’s emotional worlds as well as adult socialization practices, the article shows that children actively reinterpret, reconstruct and reformulate various cultural resources offered through emotional socialization in order to organize their own culture-laden social worlds. The article articulates children’s agentive role in cultural reproduction and the inherent dynamism involved in socialization processes. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272675 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:01:21 +0100 3272675 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272674&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F1%2F76%3Frss%3D1 Based in experience-near anthropology, this article explores constructions of gender by 10-year-old Norwegian girls who are informed by a developmental discourse and by new clothing-fashion codes. The analysis reveals gaps in aesthetic understanding between the clothing-fashion industry, preteen girls and older generations. The industry seems to assume that 10-year-old girls want to dress ‘older than their age’, a trend the girls in this study understand and relate to in their presentation of selves. The girls want to be fashionable and kul, not ‘sexy’, which conflicts with the way in which older people view the girls’ fashion preferences. This poses an ethical dilemma for the girls (and their parents) in how to present themselves. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272674 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:01:21 +0100 3272674 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272673&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F1%2F61%3Frss%3D1 This article draws on interviews with 14- to 16-year-olds in the UK to explore teenagers’ experiences of parents’ temporal regulation, and whether their perceptions are affected by the processes and meanings attached to it. Where values, meanings and rationalities around temporalities are shared, regulation can be relatively unproblematic. Sometimes however, there is a clash of frames, which impacts on teenagers’ subjective experiences and can lead to strategies to escape parental regulation of time. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272673 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:01:21 +0100 3272673 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272672&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F1%2F43%3Frss%3D1 This study examines social class differences in the gender segregation of children and pre-adolescents and draws upon data from two recent German studies. Based on longitudinal quantitative data from a representative children’s survey, the first analysis suggests that in comparison to children from upper-class families, lower-class children tend to remain longer in gender-heterogeneous peer groups, a major proportion of students continue to have opposite-sex friends and changes between same- and opposite-sex peers appear earlier. In two further sections, material from a reconstructive study of 10- to 12-year-old pre-adolescents is used to describe more in-depth reflections of children themselves on gender segregation as well as orientations that develop in same-sex peer groups in con... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272672 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:01:21 +0100 3272672 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272671&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F1%2F26%3Frss%3D1 This article analyses the relationship between time and subjectification, focusing on the temporal structures created within Danish asylum centres and politics, and on children’s experiences of and reactions to open-ended waiting. Such waiting leads to existential boredom which manifests in the children as restlessness, fatigue and despair. The article argues that in Danish asylum centres children live neither in the present nor in the future; they live without a justified existence and thus in processes of de-subjectification. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272671 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:01:21 +0100 3272671 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272670&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F1%2F9%3Frss%3D1 The article provides an ethnographic study of the logic of conducting routine paediatric checkups in children from birth to the age of 5 in Germany (U1 to U9). These checkups are meant as a continual evaluation of a child’s developmental process and progress, and their outcomes inform decisions on children’s careers in educational institutions. The article focuses on the concept of ‘age-appropriate development’ as applied in the field of study, discusses its meaning in the context of the checkups’ practical anthropology and theoretically reflects on the construction of ‘normal development’. In the analysis of an example of a U9 (with a 5-year-old child) it is shown how an extremely condensed picture of a child’s developmental state and how le... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272670 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:01:21 +0100 3272670 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272669&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F17%2F1%2F5%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272669 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:01:21 +0100 3272669 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003544&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F16%2F4%2F575%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003544 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:50 +0100 3003544 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003543&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F16%2F4%2F572%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003543 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:50 +0100 3003543 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003542&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F16%2F4%2F571%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003542 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:50 +0100 3003542 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003541&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F4%2F553%3Frss%3D1 This article challenges the implicit understanding that social work is the primary source of identity transformation and that peer group interaction is mainly an obstacle to overcome. On the contrary, this article argues that learning about the social dynamics of the children’s group is a precondition for understanding how social work influences individual children. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003541 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:49 +0100 3003541 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003540&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F4%2F535%3Frss%3D1 This article is concerned with the relationship between children’s participation and the diversity of childhoods. While there are a number of different arrangements for encouraging children and young people to participate, the article focuses on a dominant mode of participation through which children are elected to represent the interests of other children within formal institutional structures. Drawing on empirical data from work with school and civic councillors in the UK, the article critically addresses two questions: what level of involvement do these child representatives have within their schools and communities that allow them to articulate the interests of their peers? To what extent do these representative forms of children’s participation reflect the interests of div... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003540 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:49 +0100 3003540 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003539&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F4%2F518%3Frss%3D1 Children’s rights have become a significant field of study during the past decades, largely due to the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1989. Today, scholarly work on children’s rights is almost inconceivable without considering the Convention as the bearer of the children’s rights debate. The goal of this article is to critically explore academic work on the UNCRC. By means of a discourse analysis of international literature, the article maps the academic discourse on children’s rights. Three themes are identified that predominate in the academic work on the UNCRC: (1) autonomy and participation rights as the new norm in children’s rights practice and policy, (2) children’s rights vs parental rights and (3)... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003539 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:49 +0100 3003539 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003538&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F4%2F497%3Frss%3D1 This article examines territorial negotiations concerning gaming, drawing on video recordings of gaming practices in middle-class families. It explores how private vs public gaming space was co-construed by children and parents in front of the screen as well as through conversations about games. Game equipment was generally located in public places in the homes, which can be understood in terms of parents’ surveillance of their children, on the one hand, and actual parental involvement, on the other. Gaming space emerged in the interplay between game location, technology and practices, which blurred any fixed boundaries between public and private, place and space, as well as traditional age hierarchies. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003538 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:49 +0100 3003538 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003537&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F4%2F479%3Frss%3D1 The aim of this article is, by analysing children’s discourses, to investigate their actions or absence of actions during a domestic violence episode. The empirical data are recorded group therapy sessions and individual interviews with children who have grown up experiencing their fathers’ violence against their mothers. The analysis shows that the children’s stories contain two aspects of actions: one related to the actions during the ongoing episode, and one the child perceives as possible/ desirable for the future. The findings are discussed in the light of Lazarus and Folkman’s theory of coping. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003537 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:49 +0100 3003537 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003536&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F4%2F461%3Frss%3D1 Using data from in-depth interviews with 20 children, this study finds that children with parents suffering from mental health distress struggle hard to present themselves as ‘normal’ and equal among their peer group. The study shows how they avoid stigma in their presentation of self in everyday life. All the children in this study, regardless of age or parents’ suffering, are active participants and impression managers in and of their own lives. The authors question whether their active responsibility for their own and their family’s well-being becomes too heavy a burden and should be moved from children’s private sphere into public arenas such as schools or social and healthcare services. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003536 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:49 +0100 3003536 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003535&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F4%2F441%3Frss%3D1 This article explores morality as situated activity and approaches the discursive practice of accountability in Italian family dinner conversations as an avenue for understanding the construction of moral behaviour in everyday interpersonal interaction. The article focuses in particular on vicarious accounts, namely accounts, or explanations, provided by parents for a child’s misbehaviour. It examines the multiple socializing functions that vicarious accounts accomplish and the different dimensions of responsibility that they mobilize. While scaffolding children’s participation in episodes of accountability, vicarious accounts set up constraints on children’s autonomy of action, neutralizing more subversive and blameworthy interpretations of their problematic conduct. In ... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003535 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:49 +0100 3003535 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003534&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F16%2F4%2F435%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003534 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:49 +0100 3003534 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2715739&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F16%2F3%2F431%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2715739 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2715739 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2715738&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F3%2F413%3Frss%3D1 This article reflects on the organizational, practical and ethical challenges that arose from a study that investigated hospitalized children’s experiences of consultation and decision-making. The data collection process was hampered by practical and organizational factors, which consequently led to carrying out more individual interviews than focus groups as planned. Some obstacles associated with the hospital environment were practical issues that could be resolved, in contrast to ethical issues such as consent, privacy, access and the role of gatekeepers. The function of gatekeepers generally and in the healthcare setting in relation to accessing children needs to be debated and challenged because children may be silenced and excluded from the opportunity to have their voices hear... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2715738 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2715738 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2715737&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F3%2F395%3Frss%3D1 Drawing on empirical material from fieldwork among young children living with their families in two Norwegian reception centres for asylum-seekers, this article compares their realities to the norms and realities for other children in Norway. Children’s spatial and social situations within the centres stand out in stark contrast to Norwegian childhood ideology and norms. The authorities explain the divergence in terms of migration management, and the spatiotemporal and social positions of ‘asylum-seekers’ in relation to those of ‘children’ within the nation-state are brought to the fore in the article. The perceived political dilemma between migration control and Norway’s image as a promoter of children’s rights is highlighted, and the authors sugg... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2715737 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2715737 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2715736&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F3%2F377%3Frss%3D1 This article draws upon biographical interview material from a mixed-method British study of workers caring for vulnerable children: residential social workers, family support workers, foster carers and community childminders. It has two aims: (1) to identify the contexts — the particular events, circumstances and life course phases — that precipitated a move into their first occupation working with vulnerable children and young people; and (2) to analyse the main narrative resources that informants employed in explaining how they developed a commitment to care in general. It thereby suggests how workers are drawn to caring and when and why they take up this important work that is generally undervalued in the British context. In particular, it demonstrates how childhood constit... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2715736 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2715736 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2715735&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F3%2F355%3Frss%3D1 This study measures attitudes towards children’s vulnerability or empowerment within consumer culture, based on data from a representative population survey (N = 1475) conducted in Estonia in 2005. The study use indices comprised of assessments of consumption practices and assertions pertaining to the ‘endangered vs empowered child’ debate in consumer and media studies. The results of the analysis show that consumerism and brand valuation are more strongly predicted by age and income and opinions about children’s vulnerability to advertising are mostly influenced by education and gender. Attitudes on the socializing role of the media are poorly explained by sociodemographic variables, although income and education play a more important role. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2715735 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2715735 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2715734&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F3%2F335%3Frss%3D1 This article reports the findings from continued contact with participants of an ethnographic participatory research project. Longitudinal interviews emphasize the lasting influence of their experience of adults in primary school and the resulting constructions of learning relationships. Their perceptions of authority, discipline, violence and justice are portrayed as pivotal in these young people’s transitions to more mature identities. In the cluster of narratives the research discussion elicits, these themes interweave. The article demonstrates that understanding the significance and meaning of children’s perspectives is a process that unfolds over time, and requires, as Christensen and Prout advocate, continuing dialogues with children and with social science colleagues. Th... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2715734 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2715734 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2715733&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F3%2F317%3Frss%3D1 Drawing upon in-depth interviews with mothers in the US about feeding their young children, this article examines how consumer culture — broadly construed — constitutes part of the indispensable context of mothering practices. The argument put forward is that mothers not only provide food and sustenance for their children, but necessarily encounter, engage with and make use of commercial meanings of foodstuffs as part and parcel of the caring work they accomplish while providing food and meals. The concept of ‘semantic provisioning’ is meant to capture the meaning-making labor of mothers as it arises in sometimes contentious negotiations with children over ‘proper’ and ‘appropriate’ foodstuffs and meals. The approach offered seeks to demonstr... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2715733 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2715733 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2715732&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F3%2F299%3Frss%3D1 This article explores the ideas about children’s participation in decision-making held by government officials and non-government representatives engaged in promoting children’s participation in the Philippines. It suggests that the ideas that policy-makers and service deliverers hold about children’s participation are heterogeneous, diverse and complex. While adults’ attitudes are often presented as serious barriers to children’s participation, this study suggests that they are both obstructive and facilitative. A deeper understanding of the range of ideas held by adults, particularly policy-makers and service providers, may be the critical next step in progressing children’s participation in a direction that is meaningful for children and influential i... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2715732 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2715732 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2715731&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F16%2F3%2F293%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2715731 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2715731 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2715730&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F16%2F3%2F291%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2715730 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2715730 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2423323&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F16%2F2%2F284%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2423323 Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2423323 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2423322&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F16%2F2%2F283%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2423322 Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2423322 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2423321&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F2%2F265%3Frss%3D1 This article explores a paradox that was identified during an ethnographic study of two Danish therapeutic residential institutions for children with emotional and behavioural problems. The key objective of these institutions is to provide specialized treatment for the individual child. However, the task of organizing everyday life for a group of troubled children is so demanding that little room is left for individualization. In practice, treatment takes the shape of a rather standardized package. Analysing individual treatment as a powerful kind of `institutional thinking', the authors delve into the meaning of an apparent contradiction in terms: standardized individual therapy. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2423321 Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2423321 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2423320&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F2%2F247%3Frss%3D1 Qualitative research from Wales sought to explore aspects of children's views on government and participation. The research project was conducted in 2001 with 105 children aged 8—11 from a diverse sample of schools across Wales. The article first reports the children's perspectives on different levels (and places) of government: the UK parliament and the Welsh Assembly. Second, there is discussion of how the children see government as affecting their lives. The third section of the article presents the children's views on the extent to which they should have a say in local and national political decisions, the examples being the building of a new road in their community and going to war. The children, while declaring a lack of interest in politics in general, in fact engaged enthusia... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2423320 Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2423320 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2423319&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F2%2F229%3Frss%3D1 This research incorporated an ecological approach to examine American and Northern Irish children's understanding of the 2003 war in Iraq and the sources of information from which they acquired that understanding. Responses to interviews indicated that the children from the two countries had some common conceptions of and sources of information about the war. However, American and Northern Irish children also differed on several items, suggesting that the macrosystem (e.g. sociopolitical context) plays an important role in children's conceptions of the war. Additionally, the exosystem (media) also played an integral role, as did the microsystem (parents), although to a lesser extent. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2423319 Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2423319 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2423318&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F2%2F213%3Frss%3D1 This article, based on an ethnographic study, examines the role of food in the social interaction of 11- to 17-year-old youths in sports centres in Denmark. The sports centres serve as a free space where young people receive no adult supervision. This is underlined by their understanding and use of food in this environment. Food serves as a medium that introduces occasions for getting together. The article analyses the social significance and symbolic meaning of food in children's and adolescents' peer culture. As everywhere in social life, rules of food choice and eating signal the meaning of social relations and social contexts. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2423318 Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2423318 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2423317&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F2%2F195%3Frss%3D1 Organized children's activities qualify as children's work, in much the same way that school work does. Both produce transferable use value and create capital that contributes to the future production of goods and services. To illustrate this argument, this article draws on qualitative research primarily based on interviews with the parents of participants in two activities: child beauty pageants and academic enrichment classes. Despite considerable differences in the backgrounds of children who participate in these two types of activities, their parents converge in the reasons they give for enrolling their young children in these activities, and in their focus on their children's future careers and achievements. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2423317 Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2423317 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2423316&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F2%2F175%3Frss%3D1 This article explores the role of children in household livelihoods among the Gedeo ethnic community in Ethiopia. Three themes are discussed — reproductive activities, entrepreneurial work in marketplaces and sociospatial mobility — in the context of recent theoretical debates over children's agency and social competence. With shifts in rural livelihoods, children have developed new agentic and entrepreneurial skills in domestic work, trade and migration. This agency is negotiated in everyday life, but it is also structurally highly circumscribed. Situating children's work within post-rural economic development offers insight into the ways in which regional and global political economy shape their local livelihoods. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2423316 Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2423316 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2423315&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F2%2F155%3Frss%3D1 This article explores how Greek Cypriot elementary school children construct their identities in relation to Sri Lankan and Filipino women who come to Cyprus as domestic workers. The article focuses primarily on the views of children whose families employ these women; however, the views of children whose families do not employ domestic workers are also explored to illustrate how these women are popularly constructed in children's imaginations and in the absence of direct daily interaction with them. The study reveals that children access different cultural discourses and construct identities that are often ambivalent and contradictory and are revealing of new forms of nationalism and racism. For the children whose families employ domestic workers, the home becomes an arena for renegotiatin... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2423315 Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2423315 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2423314&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F16%2F2%2F147%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2423314 Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2423314 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2171223&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F16%2F1%2F143%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2171223 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2171223 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2171222&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F1%2F124%3Frss%3D1 This article explores children's participation in research, from the perspectives of researchers who have conducted research with children. Researchers' reports, gained using an email interviewing method, suggest that children's participation rights are particularly compromised when the potential child participants are considered vulnerable and the topic of the research is regarded as sensitive. Such perceptions result in stringent gatekeeping procedures that prevent some children from participating in research. This article concludes that children should be viewed, not as vulnerable passive victims, but as social actors who can play a part in the decision to participate in research. Such a view would result in more careful attention to communicating effectively with children about researc... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2171222 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2171222 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2171221&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F1%2F105%3Frss%3D1 This article argues that children should be approached as fully-fledged, active participants in their parents' participation process and that it is necessary to take account of the specific perspectives of children on this topic. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2171221 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2171221 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2171220&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F1%2F89%3Frss%3D1 This article draws on material from a case study of a group of young people involved in ongoing public decision-making in a local authority. The group of young people is compared to a political interest group and insights from the literature applied. It is argued that two of the strongest resources the group had to offer adult decision-makers were their ability to speak on behalf of other young people and to do this in acceptable ways. Looking in more depth at these two resources, it can be seen that both were actively constructed and contested by the adults and young people over time. Both resources can be seen as holding advantages for the young people while at the same time being continuously problematic for them. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2171220 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2171220 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2171219&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F1%2F67%3Frss%3D1 This study of child poverty presents a portrait of child poverty in Portugal, and offers important indicators for social policy design. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2171219 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2171219 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2171218&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F1%2F49%3Frss%3D1 This article investigates forms of strategic interaction between siblings during childhood. The authors argue that these interactions, characterized by notions of reciprocity, equivalence and constructions of fairness, are worked out in relation to responsibility, power, knowledge and sibling status. Birth order and age are not experienced as fixed hierarchies as they can be subverted, contested, resisted and negotiated. To explore these issues, in-depth individual and group interviews were conducted with a sample of 90 children between the ages of 5 and 17, drawn from 30 families of mixed socioeconomic backgrounds in central Scotland with three siblings within this age range. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2171218 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2171218 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2171217&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F1%2F31%3Frss%3D1 This study is intended to expand knowledge of children's lives and experiences and would be useful for both teachers and other professionals working with children. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2171217 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2171217 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2171216&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F16%2F1%2F11%3Frss%3D1 This article investigates the experiences, identities and aspirations of children and adolescents living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, formed as they are around the conditions of exclusion, violence and discrimination. Significant here are experiences of revolta — revolt or rage — the aspiration for freedom through life on the street and the desire to be considered a citizen, like everyone else. The complexity of these experiences and aspirations in a society that continues to discriminate and curtail possibilities for social mobility are outlined. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2171216 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2171216 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2171215&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F16%2F1%2F5%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2171215 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2171215 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2030995&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F15%2F4%2F576%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2030995 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2030995 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2030994&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F15%2F4%2F574%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2030994 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2030994 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2030993&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F15%2F4%2F572%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2030993 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2030993 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2030992&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F15%2F4%2F570%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2030992 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2030992 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2030991&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F4%2F552%3Frss%3D1 This article presents the findings of a qualitative study that explores the experiences of children, young people and residential workers of physical restraint. The research identifies the dilemmas and ambiguities for both staff and young people, and participants discuss the situations where they feel physical restraint is appropriate as well as their concerns about unjustified or painful restraints. They describe the negative emotions involved in restraint but also those situations where, through positive relationships and trust, restraint can help young people through unsafe situations. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2030991 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2030991 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2030990&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F4%2F535%3Frss%3D1 This article presents an analysis of how the discursive regimes of advanced liberalism, knowledge economies and lifelong learning have produced the conditions of possibility for the new preparatory year in Queensland's government schools. This analysis investigates what new tactics, strategies and practices this year of preparatory schooling enables. The emphasis on advanced liberal knowledge economies, and the changing political rationalities these economies produce, reveals new ways of thinking about workers and selves. Within these shifts, the author suggests that for early childhood education, the shape of the adult-to-be impacts upon ways of producing the present child. Furthermore, it is proposed that as the work of Queensland's early childhood educators in the year prior to compulso... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2030990 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2030990 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2030989&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F4%2F517%3Frss%3D1 This article explores isolation in early childhood education settings in the context of historical and current theories of punishment. The authors conclude that although isolation was reinterpreted in the 20th century in relation to changing theories of learning, teaching and child development, its earlier meanings have endured. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2030989 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2030989 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2030988&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F4%2F499%3Frss%3D1 This article attempts to rethink such techniques in several ways. The authors argue that participatory approaches, in their insistence that children should take part in research, may in fact involve children in processes that aim to regulate them. Using examples drawn from their own work, the authors question whether participatory methods are necessary for children to exercise agency in research encounters. They conclude by suggesting that researchers working with children might benefit from an attitude of methodological immaturity. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2030988 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2030988 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2030987&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F4%2F481%3Frss%3D1 This article examines how girls manage challenging encounters with non-familial adults. Drawing on a subset of qualitative data collected as part of a larger ethnographic study, it examines the ways girls maintain a strong sense of self as a good person in the face of interpersonal challenge from these non-familial adults. The discourse of the `good girl' allows them to resist excessive demands of adults and provides opportunities to have fun. The importance of the parent—child relationship in terms of providing a safe context from which the girls can generate the good and bad girl facades is also highlighted. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2030987 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2030987 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2030986&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F4%2F461%3Frss%3D1 This article reports on a qualitative study with young people who grew up in such families, exploring their accounts of their daily lives at home, school and leisure. The study focuses on the everyday interactions, practices and processes the young people felt helped them to `get by' in their challenging childhoods, showing how the protective factors thought to promote `resilience' were seldom in place for them unconditionally and without associated costs. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2030986 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2030986 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2030985&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F4%2F441%3Frss%3D1 This article builds on sociological accounts of the negotiated, creative character of kinship and on previous studies of children's involvement in family life to ask how children actively create and define kinship and relatedness. Drawing on data from a qualitative study with children aged 7—12 in the north of England, the authors identify five interconnected ways in which children made sense of kinship. They explore how children understood genealogical kinship conventions, creatively deployed or interpreted kin terms, and defined some unrelated others as `like family'. The interplay between children's creative agency and adults' involvement in children's kinship is considered. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2030985 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2030985 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2030984&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F15%2F4%2F435%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2030984 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2030984 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1706682&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F15%2F3%2F431%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1706682 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1706682 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1706681&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F3%2F415%3Frss%3D1 The analytical focus in this article is on how social categories intersect in daily school life and how intersections intertwine with other empirically relevant categories such as normality, pupilness and (in)appropriatedness. The point of empirical departure is a daily ritual where teams for football are selected. The article opens up for a microanalysis of everyday practices at the margins and at the core of what this article terms `pupilness'. The concept of intersectionality is suggested as a useful analytical tool to understand the multiple activities of pupils in everyday school life. The concept is applied to an analysis of the particular selection of teams and to practices of inclusion and exclusion. The unders... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1706681 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1706681 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1706680&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F3%2F397%3Frss%3D1 This article conceptualizes Second World War children of German soldiers and native women in Norway as `border children', who became symbolic bearers of deep societal conflicts. The authors demonstrate that this position had painful consequences in the personal experiences of the children, experiences that were shared with war children in other occupied countries in Europe. Being a `border child' is discussed in relation to three topics: (1) the construction of a national narrative expressing the collective memory of war and occupation; (2) the cultural pattern making the sexuality of women national property; and (3) the transformation of social and political conflicts into biological and medical terms and categories. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1706680 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1706680 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1706679&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F3%2F379%3Frss%3D1 This article discusses the complexities of aid-giving using the example of early childhood policies in Namibia. It supports a critical view of aid processes and of World Bank endeavours in particular. Using an analysis of the World Bank funded education sector-wide improvement plan (ETSIP) in Namibia and three Namibian local case studies, it shows how the local circumstances of young children and their parents are ignored in order to fit in with donor preconceptions, and how senior officials come to adopt those views. It argues that universally derived policies on early childhood development are misapplied, and poverty and inequality are ignored in the search for technocratic solutions. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1706679 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1706679 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1706678&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F3%2F355%3Frss%3D1 This article focuses on children's narrated experiences of fosterage in East Cameroon. It seeks to complement the predominantly adult approaches to fosterage with children's views of the intimate, emotional and competitive aspects of kinship in everyday life. As kinship evolves in homes through sharing food and intimacy, children directly experience how kinship is created, disputed and defined and how lived kinship is inextricably linked with mobility, flexibility and power dynamics. It is argued that children's multiple and changing experiences of fosterage depend on three interconnected factors: changing household compositions, power dynamics in the homes and the changes in women's life histories. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1706678 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1706678 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1706677&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F3%2F331%3Frss%3D1 This article critically discusses the notion of human trafficking in relation to childhood and combines this with an analysis of a set of recent studies on Lao children working in Thailand. Based on this, the article concludes with some suggestions to come to a greater understanding of, and more relevant interventions for, children working beyond their localities. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1706677 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1706677 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1706676&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F3%2F309%3Frss%3D1 This article shows how group solidarity is maintained through the sharing of a common subculture of spatial understandings, games, activities, dress, language and bodily actions. Through the group, the children experience a quality of life that negates the validity of common interventionist strategies. Moreover, given their high levels of competency, policies for working with these street children should be based on dialogue and should act to empower them through expanding the choices available to them. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1706676 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1706676 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1706675&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F15%2F3%2F301%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1706675 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1706675 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1706674&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F15%2F3%2F299%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1706674 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1706674 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1451010&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F15%2F2%2F295%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1451010 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1451010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1451009&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F2%2F276%3Frss%3D1 This article analyses the results of a study of conceptions of justice among Italian teenagers. The aim was to examine young people's representations of issues of justice, and to determine whether the experience of active participation can influence such representations. The study was designed in accordance with the most recent approaches in sociology of childhood; it involved young people attending higher secondary school, some of them members of a youth organization. Most of the teenagers were interviewed individually, others in focus groups. The interviews were conducted through the presentation of scenarios based on questions of justice, while the focus groups were presented with a variety of moral dilemmas. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1451009 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1451009 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1451008&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F2%2F259%3Frss%3D1 This article examines the opportunities and obstacles for vulnerable and victimized children's participation in family law proceedings. With the help of a set of interviews with children, a framework for the analysis of vulnerable and victimized children's participation is outlined with reference to, on the one hand, the childhood studies debates concerning children's participation and, on the other hand, the contemporary debates about children as victims of crime when exposed to men's violence to women in their family. The authors argue that participation can be viewed as central not simply to a rights perspective on children, but also to a care perspective. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1451008 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1451008 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1451007&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F2%2F239%3Frss%3D1 Self-expression is a key concept for sociological studies on childhood since it is the cue for children's self-socialization and agency. Hence promoting children's agency and social participation requires their self-expression to be facilitated in their interaction with adults. The analysis in this article of a set of interactions in Italian schools sheds light on how promotion of children's self-expression succeeded or failed through specific adult intervention and forms of communication. This analysis may be interesting for a reflection on how to promote children's participation and self-expression in education systems. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1451007 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1451007 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1451006&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F2%2F225%3Frss%3D1 This article outlines the ways in which clothing is one important medium for the presentation of self, on the basis of interviews and group discussions with young people in a qualitative study. In the process of leaving their childhood behind, young people have to present themselves as individuals; the self has to be indicated in an individualized (and unequal) society. Their vestimentary practices are both bound by the social order and also contribute to its constitution. The article also develops a critical discussion of the generational order, which is simultaneously class differentiated. The differentiation between childhood and youth is the most prominent age distinction, but more differentiated age steps are also perceptible. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1451006 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1451006 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1451005&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F2%2F203%3Frss%3D1 How does the presence of grandparents in the household impact the gendered division of childcare responsibilities between spouses? How does it compare with market-based care? Drawing on in-depth interview data, this study finds that Taiwanese grandparents treat childcare assistance as their moral responsibility. Mothers express more appreciation for assistance from their own mothers than their mothers-in-law. Fathers appreciate the role of both their parents and their in-laws. The analysis suggests that the character of intergenerational relations is one of the factors mediating the degree to which married women's entrance into the paid labour force results in the perceived childcare deficit. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1451005 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1451005 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1451004&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F2%2F177%3Frss%3D1 The complexities of intergenerational and gendered intra-household resource allocations are frequently overlooked in poverty reduction policies. To address this lacuna, this article focuses on links between macro-development policies and children's paid and unpaid work burden in Ethiopia. Using a mixed methods approach, quantitative household survey data results highlight the importance of household wealth and assets, family composition and access to education services, while the qualitative results underscore the role of culturally ascribed gendered and age-specific conceptualizations of work, parental attitudes and children's agency. The article concludes with a discussion of the challenges national development plans ... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1451004 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1451004 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1451003&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F2%2F157%3Frss%3D1 In contemporary South Africa, the abolition of corporal punishment symbolizes a break with the previous schooling system. A qualitative study in four formerly segregated schools south of Johannesburg showcases different realities and discourses on corporal punishment. The practices vary from its total abolition to its continued maintenance. Most learners in a Soweto-based school justify its use to maintain discipline in a hostile environment. Adding to conventional perspectives on the abolition of corporal punishment, a comprehensive approach provides a contextualized understanding of its function in the eyes of the school community, and reveals complex links between corporal punishment and a practice of care. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1451003 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1451003 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1451002&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F2%2F147%3Frss%3D1 This article analyses the central themes running through the collection of papers in this special issue of Childhood, which were all given as papers at the XVI Durban World Congress of Sociology, 23—29 July 2006. These themes encompass the ways in which global processes of social change combining modernity with tradition have become important for both the perception of childhood and for childrens real lives. They also include the ways in which those processes intertwined with social inequalities — of gender, generation and socioeconomic status — among children and between children and other age groups. The article goes on to provide an outline of the ways in which more general theoretical concerns in ... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1451002 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1451002 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1238707&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F1%2F127%3Frss%3D1 Bullying in the intermediate school phase was studied, using the Revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire (R-OBVQ). The total sample comprised 360 grade 4 to 6 pupils from English-medium, single-sex schools in Bloemfontein, South Africa. To ensure a more homogeneous sample, the grade (grades 4 to 6) and race (black and white) of the participants were controlled. The results yielded a much higher rate of bullying (56.4 percent) than those cited in previous South African as well as international research. In the light of this, more research is necessary to find ways to lessen the deleterious effects of bullying. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1238707 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1238707 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1238706&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F1%2F107%3Frss%3D1 This article focuses on the links between family income, deprivation as reported by parents and deprivation as experienced by children. Data are drawn from a survey of Norwegian families, in which low-income families are oversampled. Three areas of deprivation are explored: housing, consumption and subjective experiences. In each area, indicators of childhood deprivation are developed. It is found that there are clear links, if no absolute overlap, between `adult' and `child' deprivation in each area. When looking at which children experience deprivation, we find that non-western immigrants, children with many siblings and children with non-employed parents are most at risk. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1238706 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1238706 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1238705&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F1%2F89%3Frss%3D1 This study explores the relationships between a school, its staff and its pupils and the impact of these relationships on school pupils' well-being. The authors adopted a community psychological perspective and applied critical, social constructionist epistemologies and participatory, multi-method research tools. The article discusses the importance of focusing on the complex, multilayered context of people's lives (both participants and researchers) that are impacted by social, economic, cultural and political contexts. Finally, it reflects on the contrast between the messiness of real-world social science research and the often sanitized nature of its reporting. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1238705 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1238705 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1238704&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F1%2F74%3Frss%3D1 The aim of this study is to find constructions of parental responsibility by analysing letters sent by readers to a newspaper on the topic of parenting and parental responsibility. The study takes a methodological approach, focusing on the meanings of responsibility and looking at different portrayals of parenthood. Three dimensions of responsibility (beginning responsibility, diminished sense of responsibility and obligating responsibility) emerged from the analysis. These dimensions relate to different meanings attributed to parental responsibility, for instance, `responsibility for making choices'. Parenthood is variously portrayed along the three dimensions. Parental responsibility creates norms for evaluating parents' behaviour. Moreover, responsibility produces and maintains boundari... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1238704 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1238704 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1238703&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F1%2F50%3Frss%3D1 This article explores the relationships between two key concepts that have defined recent social policy initiatives for children in the UK: participation and prevention from social exclusion. Drawing on the Children's Fund initiative as an example, the article traces the diverse and sometimes contradictory discourses of childhood and social inclusion/exclusion in stakeholders' differing rationales for supporting children's participation and prevention. The authors argue that the blurring of the rationales for participation and prevention has implications for the strategies and practices that agencies adopt and raises questions about which groups benefit and whose agendas are served by participation and prevention activities. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1238703 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1238703 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1238702&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F1%2F30%3Frss%3D1 This article arose from the author's experiences as a researcher exploring children's reactions to their parents' separation. Between 1999 and 2004, the author undertook to find out what a sample of Australian children thought of their abilities to participate in decisions that directly affected them following family breakdown. Before beginning the project, the author was required to obtain ethical approval from the university to which he was attached at that time. He also talked with a number of service providers in Adelaide, where he was based, to request that he receive referrals from them once the research was under way. This article describes the difficulties the author experienced in obtaining ethical approval and subsequently in recruiting children for the research. The article refl... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1238702 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1238702 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1238701&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F15%2F1%2F12%3Frss%3D1 This study examines the formulation of national identity in Palestinian children by exploring their understanding of its paradoxes. Twelve Palestinian children were interviewed from cities, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank. The children express the multiple dimensions of national identity in terms of self and other; however these expressions are fragmented in nature. Furthermore, the findings indicate that national identity highlights children as geopolitical agents, rather than separate entities defined by time. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1238701 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1238701 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1238700&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F15%2F1%2F4%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1238700 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1238700 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088239&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F14%2F4%2F543%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088239 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088239 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088238&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F14%2F4%2F541%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088238 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088238 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088237&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F14%2F4%2F539%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088237 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088237 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088236&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F14%2F4%2F537%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088236 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088236 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088235&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F14%2F4%2F521%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088235 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088235 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088234&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F4%2F505%3Frss%3D1 This paper suggests that sharply divergent images of children in Bangladesh reflect different `imagined communities' of society and polity, local and global. Universal concepts of `the rights of the child' contrast strongly with a local culture of `guardianship', as the key social institution that governs children's lives. How might bringing these together affect both analysis and action? Engaging with both the politics of development agency and the anthropology of Bangladesh, the paper asks if the boundaries of community might be `re-imagined' to mobilize more positive cultural and material resources for the children at the margins. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088234 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088234 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088233&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F4%2F487%3Frss%3D1 Citizenship is both an individual and collective identity. In politically sensitive societies, the aim of citizenship education is to transform discourses around `us' and `them' into a more inclusive `we'. Yet promoting an inclusive citizenship is beset with challenges and contradictions as it may integrate young people into mainstream political structures to which some of them will have limited allegiance. In politically sensitive societies, discourses around citizenship may promote discourses of silences around existing communal tensions. The paper demonstrates this by drawing on Northern Ireland as a case study. It explores a number of dilemmas associated with citizenship education, including the crucial need to acknowledge the dynamics of power and control which characterize adult/teac... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088233 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088232&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F4%2F467%3Frss%3D1 This paper reviews some of the ways in which early childhood professionals in England discuss aspects of practice in nurseries for preschool age children. The ways in which professionals talk about and react to early childhood practice tell us much about contemporary understandings of such practice and how concepts and policies developed over time are being interpreted and translated on the ground. The data for the study were obtained using a video observation method that asks small groups of selected and knowledgeable people to make spontaneous comments about elements of professional practice, both national and cross-national, that they view on a video. One of the emergent themes from this `talk' was a discourse around children's independence and choice in early childhood services such as... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088232 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088231&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F4%2F449%3Frss%3D1 Using an approach inspired by conversation analysis, the present study investigates how Swedish students draw on democratic discourse during group work. The analyses demonstrate the importance of democratic issues to students. The analyses also point to how students repeatedly employ democratic discourse for a number of strategic purposes. Moreover, the analyses show that democratic arrangements at school are not always productive for schoolwork. The results are discussed in relation to previous research. In sum, the study implies that democracy must be studied as an interactive process. This entails a focus on how students do democracy at school rather than how they appear as democratic beings or how they experience student democracy retrospectively. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088231 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088231 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088230&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F4%2F431%3Frss%3D1 Drawing on interviews with Canadian borderlanders, this article examines childhood experiences with the Canada—US border in the mid-1980s to early 1990s. The retrospective accounts of childhood border experiences demonstrate how childhood was produced and experienced in border crossings and how the production of childhood intersected with a stratified border to reinforce forms of privilege and exclusion associated with class, citizenship, gender and racial/ethnic positionings. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088230 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088230 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088229&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F4%2F415%3Frss%3D1 This article examines the ethical dilemmas of working with these extremely vulnerable children, focusing on the difference between the researcher's own interpretations and those given by the children themselves and the implications this has for child-centred anthropology and the implementation of children's rights. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088229 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088229 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088228&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F4%2F401%3Frss%3D1 Drawing on data from an empirical study of children's engagements with violence in South Africa, this article explores children's talk about violence in their neighbourhood. Violence entered into children's daily lives in many forms, repelling and disempowering them. At the same time, violence could attract, when it was understood as a form of capital or a source of control. As children tried to negotiate subject positions in relation to violence, they experienced conflicts and tensions; in managing these tensions, they both resisted and perpetuated violent beliefs and practices. The article concludes by considering the implications for the well-being of young people, and by suggesting ways in which programmes and interventions might support children's resistance to violence. (Source: Chil... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088228 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088228 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088227&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F14%2F4%2F395%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088227 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1088227 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=812834&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F3%2F375%3Frss%3D1 This article links research into constructions of childhood and child agency to anthropological studies of young people's informal adoption and state involvement in family arrangements. It analyses the life history of a young Peruvian woman who deliberately chose to move into an orphanage. The multiple points at which individual and family plans and efforts are shaped by broader political economic matters are addressed in a discussion of how urban Andean families, and in particular their children, use local orphanages as a part of their strategies for individual and family advancement. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=812834 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 812834 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=812833&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F3%2F355%3Frss%3D1 This article explores the multiple meanings of children and childhood in Nicaragua during periods of dramatic sociopolitical and economic transitions. The article compares the state's responsibilities to Nicaraguan children and their families during the decade of revolution and first year of the post-revolutionary period. It argues that each state supported a particular construction of childhood that produced a certain ideal of the Nicaraguan child. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=812833 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 812833 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=812832&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F3%2F339%3Frss%3D1 This article takes an ethnographical approach to explore the `state of exception' through which legal technologies of abortion and adoption of `war-babies' (children born as a result of wartime rapes) in the Bangladesh war enabled the dekinning and elimination of certain childhoods while the raped women were rekinned within legitimate heterosexual motherhoods. The role of the law in guaranteeing an erasure of blood relations ensured the regulation and availability of women's reproductive capacity and the categorization of the child by the state. Through this process, the Bangladeshi family planning programme was institutionalized, in the context of bilateral foreign aid relating to population control. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=812832 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 812832 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=812831&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F3%2F321%3Frss%3D1 To explore meanings attached to children in Mexican society, this article examines two changing aspects of child circulation, a widespread reproductive disruption to the families of Mexico City's working poor. In the late 1890s, a rapid rise in admissions to the public foundling home was matched by a striking increase in retrievals. At the other end of the social spectrum, growing preference for adopting infants and young children indicates that adoption was becoming an acceptable means of forming families among the middle and upper classes. Changes in welfare policy encouraged both trends. This convergence of family practice and public policy illuminates transitions in concepts of infancy and early childhood informed by a consolidating ethic of protected childhood. These dynamics prefigur... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=812831 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 812831 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=812830&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F3%2F301%3Frss%3D1 Examining the adoption of Guatemalan children by US citizens, this article argues that adoptive parents make meanings and form identities through their participation in the adoption process and in their production of both Internet-based and spoken narratives about adoption. Using theories of globalization and narrative theory, the article elucidates how adoptive parents imagine and articulate their gendered and national identities, primarily as `American mothers', in their production of narratives about travel and the adoption process. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=812830 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 812830 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=812829&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F3%2F291%3Frss%3D1 This article introduces a special issue on the meaning of children in violent, uncertain times. It is framed in terms of the political-economy aspects of adoption, focusing on the local occurrences that make international adoption possible, from legal determinations of abandonment to wartime and postwar parenting. The article argues that government and civil institutions contain and shape children in the context of the dual oppressions of violence and socioeconomic inequality, and works to destabilize normative depictions of social reproduction, outlining a programme of study where aspects of children's lives are understood in line with their complex historical conditions. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=812829 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 812829 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=663778&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F14%2F2%2F288%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=663778 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 663778 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=663777&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F14%2F2%2F285%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=663777 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 663777 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=663776&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F14%2F2%2F279%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=663776 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 663776 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=663775&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F2%2F257%3Frss%3D1 This article examines the experiences of working children aged between 9 and 14 years in a German city, and the meanings the children ascribe to their work. This qualitative study is based upon a broad concept of work, which includes both unpaid and paid work. As far as work is concerned, the most important thing for children is being able to act independently and find approval for their work. They prefer to receive adequate payment as a form of recognition, but money is not a necessary motive nor the only motive for working. Children's attitude towards their work differs according to a number of factors: whether it offers the opportunity to perform their skills; the concrete use it has for others, and how far that work is appreciated by adults in their social environment. Work is not rega... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=663775 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 663775 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=663774&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F2%2F235%3Frss%3D1 In this ethnographic study of family life, intergenerational video and computer game activities were videotaped and analysed. Both children and adults invoked the notion of a digital divide, i.e. a generation gap between those who master and do not master digital technology. It is argued that the digital divide was exploited by the children to control the game activities. Conversely, parents and grandparents positioned themselves as less knowledgeable, drawing on a displayed divide as a rhetorical resource for gaining access to playtime with the children. In these intergenerational encounters, the digital divide was thus an interactional resource rather than a problem. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=663774 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 663774 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=663773&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F2%2F215%3Frss%3D1 This article focuses on a neglected topic in the historical sociology of childhood, namely health education, and explores a neglected theme, namely the gendered character of (re)constructions of childhood. Drawing on primary sources, the article argues that while health education for children played an important role in a broader set of British national, political strategies to ensure the health and fitness of `the Nation' during the 20th century, it was girls who were the primary targets and recipients. Gender was thus central to the `body work' in childhood that the official publications on health education sought to promote. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=663773 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 663773 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=663772&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F2%2F193%3Frss%3D1 In conclusion, it argues that the merging of sociology with polemics, ideology, opinion and personal beliefs and, at the level of social systems, between science and politics represents in Luhmann's terms `dedifferentiation' — a tendency he claims may have serious adverse consequences for modern society. This warning is applied to the scientific status of sociology — its claim to be able to produce `facts' for society, upon which social systems, such as politics and law, may rely. Like the mass media, sociology may now be capable of producing only information, and not facts, about children. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=663772 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 663772 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=663771&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F2%2F173%3Frss%3D1 In this article, the author explores the performances and practices of motherhood and childhood as they materialize in a private elementary school setting in Ottawa, Canada. The author analyses the ways the ideology of intensive mothering and the intensification of children's lives intersect and inform one another in this setting. She argues that these mutually reinforcing conceptualizations are maintained through surveillance and mother blame that result in narrowing possibilities for the lives of both women and children rather than creating spaces of childhood and motherhood envisaged in a capacious and mutually productive way. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=663771 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 663771 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=663770&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F2%2F153%3Frss%3D1 This article analyses two Canadian juridical examples of the perceived relationship between government, foster families and foster children. It shows the perception of children as free — understood as rights-bearers — is undermined through a conception of children as family members. Children are shown to have no direct relationship with government due to juridical assertions that only families can turn children into (self-) responsible citizens. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=663770 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 663770 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=663769&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F14%2F2%2F147%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=663769 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 663769 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=446773&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F1%2F128%3Frss%3D1 This article looks at the application of complexity theory to risk assessment in child protection practice, and how it may help to give a better understanding of risk in relation to protecting vulnerable children. Within the last 20 years increasing use has been made of the term complexity within the natural sciences. In recent times, some of the key concepts in complexity theory have started to filter through to the social sciences. The article offers an explanation of some of the key concepts in complexity theory and discusses the development of a model of assessing risk in child protection cases. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=446773 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:00:00 +0100 446773 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=446772&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F1%2F105%3Frss%3D1 This article examines how a sample of first-time mothers in the UK constitute childhood in general, and their own children in particular, in and through their talk about the mundane practices of childcare. The data analysed are drawn from a longitudinal qualitative interview study that followed a sample of mothers from late pregnancy until their babies were 2 years old. The analysis explores links between mothers' representations of childhood and the actualities of their childrearing practices. The extent to which both the representations of childhood and the practices of individual mothers are consistent or contradictory, and change or remain constant over time, is also examined. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=446772 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:00:00 +0100 446772 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=446771&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F1%2F85%3Frss%3D1 This article argues that the strength of this discourse lies in its prevalence, its resistance to challenges and the ways in which it connects ideas of innocence and vulnerability. The moral quality of the discourse of innocence works in conjunction with the sacred status of the child, to produce childhood as a moral rhetoric. Children and childhood function to explain and legitimize any practice or opinion as right while removing the necessity to provide reasons: children are the reason. The article also considers how issues around childhood and morality are implicated in the generation of social concern with risks affecting children. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=446771 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:00:00 +0100 446771 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=446770&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F1%2F67%3Frss%3D1 This article examines the experience of using such methods in the context of a study of children as consumers of clothing and fashion. Its principal concern is with the application of an embodied reflexivity to the experience of fieldwork with an 8-year-old girl in intimate settings. The article argues that the current climate of concern about child abuse and paedophilia may be at odds with research approaches that necessitate an intimacy between child and researcher. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=446770 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:00:00 +0100 446770 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=446769&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F1%2F47%3Frss%3D1 This article is based upon two studies applying a life history approach, letting 15-to 16-year-olds reconstruct their own childhood in preschool and school, to see what meaning and importance children's experiences have in forming their self-concepts and philosophy of life. A combination of methods was used: written life stories, round tours in the educational settings and interviews. The round tour, a new method, helps the youths to remember and to work inductively, using later experiences, here called post-understanding, to analyse their childhood memories. The results show that relations both with people and content characterized by dialogue and reciprocity are crucial for development and learning; the project of learning and knowledge cannot be separated from the social interpersonal p... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=446769 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:00:00 +0100 446769 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=446768&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F1%2F29%3Frss%3D1 This article draws on the experience of three research projects where photography was used with children as a data collection method and presentation tool. It was used as a way of trying to enhance opportunities for adults to hear about topics from the perspective of children. The projects were not designed to investigate the use of cameras as a research methodology; the article is a synthesis of incidentally observed outcomes and issues raised by the use of cameras within these projects. Watching young children has told us a lot about how they engage with their environment and how to help them fit into the adult agendas we call ‘education’, ‘growing up’ and ‘life’, but how much does it tell us about how children really experience their worlds? (Source: ... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=446768 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:00:00 +0100 446768 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=446767&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F14%2F1%2F11%3Frss%3D1 This article addresses the ambiguity of the child's ‘voice’ in social research. Drawing on a recent research project on young children's communication difficulties, the author argues that the currently popular discourse on ‘listening to children’ is beset with practical and ethical ambiguities that result from the ‘socialness’ of human interaction, discourses and practices. In particular, the author argues that the notion of the child's ‘voice’ is, despite being a powerful rhetorical device, socially constructed. This article illustrates and discusses ambiguities that arose from fieldwork in two ‘special needs’ settings, considering their epistemological impli... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=446767 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:00:00 +0100 446767 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=446766&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F14%2F1%2F5%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=446766 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:00:00 +0100 446766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=320489&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F13%2F4%2F543%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=320489 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100 320489 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=320488&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F13%2F4%2F539%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=320488 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100 320488 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=320487&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F13%2F4%2F537%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=320487 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100 320487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=320486&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F13%2F4%2F533%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=320486 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100 320486 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=320485&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F4%2F519%3Frss%3D1 This article discusses the nature of childhood and its uses in Marechera's dystopian fiction. It demonstrates the ways in which Marechera's fiction revises sets of concepts that constitute ‘the child’ by portraying childhoods that point to the dissolution and reinvention of a symbolic order in a post-national African space. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=320485 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100 320485 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=320484&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F4%2F499%3Frss%3D1 Current UK government policy is to promote mediation as a way of avoiding family court proceedings and there is a risk, therefore, that welfare report-writing practice may receive less critical attention than it merits. A largely unstudied aspect of this practice is the significance given by practitioners to the child's age. More widely, across a broad academic and policy canvas, preoccupying concerns with children's rights, their ability to participate and their individuality have shifted attention away from questions about the age relatedness of competence. Two sets of findings from recent research are presented in this article: first, statistical data relating to the age of children involved in welfare report enquir... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=320484 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100 320484 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=320483&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F4%2F479%3Frss%3D1 Recently, it has been argued that ‘anti-smacking’ campaigns have been so successful that ‘explicit pro-smackers’ are now thin on the ground. Yet the use of physical chastisement remains widespread. One response to this contradiction is to focus less on parents and more on children's rights. In this article, however, the authors draw on data from a recent Scottish study of parents’ views of physical chastisement to answer the following question: If the starting point for parents in thinking about physical chastisement is not children's rights, why is this the case and what are the implications for moving the debate forward? Drawing on a more dialogical understanding of parent–child re... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=320483 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100 320483 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=320482&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F4%2F459%3Frss%3D1 This article builds on the author's research in East and Central Africa, specifically Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia. It examines minority world resilience theory and explores its application in the majority world, for children in need of protection (CINP).The term ‘minority world’ refers to those in the developed world where the minority of individuals live, and the ‘majority world’refers to those in the developing or underdeveloped world. CINP are defined and the construct of resilience is presented. The strengths and limitations of various programmes are examined, an argument to support these children is offered and limitations are extrapolated upon. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=320482 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100 320482 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=320481&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F4%2F441%3Frss%3D1 In segregated societies such as Northern Ireland, schools may become sites of risk rather than sites of learning. This is particularly likely to be the case in interface areas, which are demarcated by peace– lines and other symbolic boundaries. Drawing on maps and focus group discussions with teenagers from interface areas in North Belfast, the article reveals their perceptions and experiences of schools as risky landscapes. Teenagers experienced danger going to and from school and within school gates. The article illustrates the nature of these hazards and explores how teenagers evaluate and manage risk. Teachers attempted to shield teenagers from knowledge of risk and in the process undermined teenagers' attemp... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=320481 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100 320481 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=320480&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F13%2F4%2F440%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=320480 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100 320480 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=320479&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F13%2F4%2F435%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=320479 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100 320479 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=162989&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F3%2F407%3Frss%3D1 This article questions why a somewhat singular focus on orphanhood in the context of AIDS persists despite important shifts to more inclusive terminology of ‘orphans and vulnerable children’. Analysis of data from South Africa raises questions about the ‘spin’ placed on ‘orphanhood’ and its perceived consequences for children. Local notions of vulnerability and of orphanhood are examined, and their mismatch with international policy definitions noted. The article illustrates how the global focus on orphans consolidates stereotypes of children's experiences, and moderates local applications of the term. It concludes by arguing that the global preoccupation with orphans and their right... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=162989 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:00:00 +0100 162989 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=162988&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F3%2F389%3Frss%3D1 This review examines refractions of children's rights in development practice from an anthropological point of view and considers the case of young domestic girls working in Abidjan. The author argues that child labour legislation and the children's rights perspective in Abidjan is permeated by patriarchal values that mask the exploitation of work performed in the domestic arena under the cover of (pseudo) kinship ties. The author contends that development programmes that target young domestic servants in a children's rights-framed approach risk obscuring situations where children are put to work and actually exploited. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=162988 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:00:00 +0100 162988 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=162987&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F3%2F365%3Frss%3D1 The issue of child labor continues to challenge thinking on the nature of work, play, schooling and apprenticeship. New wisdom from some contemporary academic writing places children closer to the center of our understanding of consumption, production and reproduction, and at the heart of inequities generated by globalization. Child labor comes in many forms and intersects with local life and global processes in a myriad of ways. The child laborers in this study work as ‘volunteer’ checkout packers in Tijuana supermarkets. By highlighting aspects of their complex daily lives, this article develops new ways of thinking about children's work socially and spatially, while acknowledging the global contexts of t... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=162987 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:00:00 +0100 162987 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=162986&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F3%2F349%3Frss%3D1 Kenyan policy-makers use the language of children's rights to legitimize, within the new global political order, an old colonial concern about controlling the urban marginal population. The local business community's worries about the safety of Nairobi's streets stand paramount, while the growing financial and political leverage of NGOs interfering in local affairs in the name of street children's rights is looked upon with suspicion. Accusing the abstract universalism of the language of children's rights of being incompatible with local values, the local political elite seeks to muster support by offering an alternative version based on the local Kikuyu ethos of the ‘accomplished man’. This version sits we... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=162986 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:00:00 +0100 162986 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=162985&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F3%2F329%3Frss%3D1 This article examines men's use of physical punishment when interacting with their sons or grandsons in rural Vietnam. By drawing on two periods of anthropological fieldwork in a northern Vietnamese commune, the article analyses the ways in which violence is informed by, while also perpetually reinforcing, a masculine discourse. Vietnam has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and in this spirit virtually all men in the local community disapprove of the use of physical punishment when bringing up boys. However, a father or grandfather occasionally beats his son or grandson when it is deemed necessary to instil discipline in a boy. The article elucidates the ways in which the contradictions between ideals ... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=162985 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:00:00 +0100 162985 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=162984&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F3%2F303%3Frss%3D1 The article examines assumptions circulating in development or interventionist discourse concerning the vulnerabilities of AIDS orphans in South Africa. Ongoing ethnographic research, begun in March 2003, with 31 rural children and youth between the ages of 14 and 22, in Magangangozi, KwaZulu-Natal, points to the ways in which global terms may fail to describe local particularities. Too narrow a focus on the vulnerabilities of AIDS orphans obscures the ways in which they share similar circumstances with other poor children, as well as the strengths they bring to bear on their circumstances. Research methods include: documenting meetings between the children and NGO intervention facilitators; ongoing home visits; the use of ... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=162984 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:00:00 +0100 162984 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=162983&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F13%2F3%2F291%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=162983 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:00:00 +0100 162983 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=124355&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F13%2F2%2F287%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=124355 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 124355 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=77197&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F13%2F2%2F285%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=77197 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 77197 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=77196&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F2%2F267%3Frss%3D1 This article is based on a qualitative study carried out in Lira District, northern Uganda, to assess the situation of orphans cared for in extended families. The objective of the article is to bring attention to the varying vulnerability of different categories of orphans. The methods employed in data collection included ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative interviews and focus group discussions. The study found that the decision-making process that leads particular orphans to particular homes, the kin category an orphan resides with, the age and sex of the orphan and the economic situation of the household have particular influence on the orphans’ vulnerability. The authors conclude that categories of orphans wh... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=77196 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 77196 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=77195&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F2%2F247%3Frss%3D1 This article discusses the problems of informed consent that were encountered in research with children with learning impairments. It proposes that the process of seeking ‘assent’, when used within an ethical framework, is a more comprehensive method of gaining the agreement of children in research, which transcends language, ability, cultural, social and international borders (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=77195 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 77195 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=77194&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F2%2F225%3Frss%3D1 This article discusses the narratives of Dutch schoolchildren from varied cultural-ethnic backgrounds discussing experiences of being betrayed by a friend, and the lessons they learned from the experience. In line with earlier social constructivist research in western societies, the authors found that peers and friends acted as highly emotional forums for moral learning. Revealing intimate information led to awareness of two moral issues: the issue of norms of ‘true’ friendship and the issue of the dilemma between conforming to group norms and asserting personal opinions. To develop a personal morality in the context of Dutch schools, the children needed trustworthy friends with whom to share intimate infor... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=77194 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 77194 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=77193&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F13%2F2%2F205%3Frss%3D1 The main objective of any housing policy is to provide everyone (adults and children) with a good-quality dwelling and housing environment. In Belgium, following the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, children and youngsters are now considered a separate target group in housing policy formation. However, little is known about the housing situation and desires of these young people. To fill this knowledge gap, the government launched a large-scale policy-oriented research project to study the housing situation, needs and desires of children and youngsters in urban living environments. The project, the results of which are discussed in this article, took a twofold approach. On the one hand, it ... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=77193 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 77193