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. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:18:26 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5428866&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F18%2F4%2F559%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5428866 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5428866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5428865&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F18%2F4%2F556%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5428865 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5428865 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5428864&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F4%2F540%3Frss%3D1 This study presents an analysis of the interactions between the Board’s representatives and children, and examines the way the children are informed about procedures, their participatory role and the effects on their disclosures of their ideas and feelings about the events taking place in their family. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5428864 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5428864 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5428863&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F4%2F526%3Frss%3D1 This study analyses the construction of space in the national and local level curricula for the very youngest children. These documents both present ‘child’s best interests’ as age-related, and generalize and distinguish the needs and abilities of the ‘younger’ and the ‘older’ children. At the local level, the space offered for the youngest children is linked to the emphasis on the daycare group as a community of social actors; the youngest ones are seen as inexperienced newcomers, faced with adaptation to the group and its rules. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5428863 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5428863 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5428862&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F4%2F509%3Frss%3D1 The aim of this study was to make visible, and understand, possible opportunities for school improvement based on schoolchildren’s lived experience and visionary ideas of school. Schoolchildren aged 10–12 from the northern part of Sweden participated in the study. The phenomenological analysis resulted in three themes, with no particular order of preference: the school of ‘Friendship and involvement’, the school of ‘Work and play’ and the school of ‘Places and spaces’. The comprehensive understanding of the children’s dream school is the school of ‘Friendship, freedom and fun’, which is discussed with school improvement in mind. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5428862 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5428862 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5428861&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F4%2F491%3Frss%3D1 The present article approaches the phenomenon of indirect bullying through detailed analysis of the interactional practices that a group of preadolescent girls make use of as they reconstruct the social organization of their peer group, the effect being that one girl is eventually excluded. The data are drawn from ethnography combined with video recordings of the girls’ peer group interactions in a Swedish elementary school, during one school year. The interactional data cover three different periods of the exclusion process. Overall, the study highlights how processes of social exclusion are situated within the flow of subtle and seemingly innocent actions that are embedded in ordinary everyday interactional peer group practices. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5428861 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5428861 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5428860&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F4%2F477%3Frss%3D1 The article presents selected results of a reconstructive study on the significance of the peer group for children’s educational biography. Based on the analysis of qualitative interviews and group discussions with c. 11-year-old children from different educational milieus in Germany it is first shown how, in general, groups of friends in different social contexts exert influence on the children’s school careers. In a second part, the text pursues the question of how children produce social inequality themselves, what processes of distinction they practise and on the basis of which traits and criteria. Thereby the study demonstrates that internal and external distinction practices refer to entirely different concepts of achievement. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5428860 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5428860 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5428859&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F4%2F460%3Frss%3D1 This article tries to suggest such a taxonomy. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5428859 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5428859 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5428858&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F4%2F447%3Frss%3D1 A growing number of empirical studies deal with children’s participation in care relationships in the family. Based on a review of empirical findings in the UK and Germany, this article discusses care-giving children in terms of vulnerability and agency. The focus is set on understandings of family life as interdependent and reciprocal relationships between parents and their minor children. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and social-political programmes in the UK are analysed with regard to their influence on child carers’ agency and participation as social citizens. The article contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of child carers, and contributes to the development of a theory of care. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5428858 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5428858 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5428857&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F4%2F434%3Frss%3D1 Focusing on the paradox between innocence and responsibility generated by the term child-soldiers, which is treated differently in literary and cinematographic works from the North and the South, this article uses postcolonial theory in order to deconstruct ‘the single story’ that may be erasing these children’s many stories. Accordingly, the analysis brings to the fore both the supposed universality of a hegemonic notion of childhood, revealing it as a regulatory discourse which produces diverse subalternities, and the articulation of this notion within an Africanist discourse that legitimizes neocolonial practices in varied domains. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5428857 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5428857 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5428856&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F4%2F420%3Frss%3D1 This article seeks to redress this gap by drawing upon interesting retheorizings of nature that have taken place within human geography in order to suggest new ways of reconceptualizing childhood. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5428856 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5428856 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5428855&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F18%2F4%2F411%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5428855 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5428855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5156994&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F18%2F3%2F405%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5156994 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5156994 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5156993&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F18%2F3%2F403%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5156993 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5156993 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5156992&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F18%2F3%2F402%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5156992 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5156992 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5156991&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F3%2F384%3Frss%3D1 This article looks at the remembered experiences of children who went to school in the late colonial period and examines the extent to which these memories relate to the official literature of the time and the historiographical debates surrounding education. The precise focus is memories of formal elementary education in the Madras Presidency 1882—1947 as described in autobiographies. This includes a study of how children regarded the space of the classroom, what they did and what was important enough to be remembered. In other words this article attempts to find fragments of the experiences of children, rather than just the history of education. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5156991 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5156991 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5156990&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F3%2F367%3Frss%3D1 This article is about children’s moral reasoning about illness and supernatural retribution in a rural tribal community in Chhattisgarh, central India. Detailed ethnographic analysis is devoted to the norms and experiences within which conceptions about illness causality and morality are formed. The author is principally interested in the discrepancy between children’s and adults’ knowledge about moral accountability; in how children make sense of this knowledge in relation to their own moral worlds and their entry into adulthood; and in what this tells us about the transformation of both knowledge and persons. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5156990 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5156990 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5156989&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F3%2F350%3Frss%3D1 This article examines these discourses in the context of Hindu girlhood as represented in Balika Shikshan (Education for Girls), a publication of Vidya Bharati, the educational wing of the Hindu nationalist organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Published in 2003, Balika Shikshan is designed as a guidebook for teachers, delineating the essentials of relevant knowledge for Hindu girls. The article discusses the historical and ideological contours of the knowledge proposed in this text and the pedagogical demands of its transaction. It also attempts to deconstruct, through the knowledge and implied pedagogy of the text, the image of the Hindu girl for whom it is intended. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5156989 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5156989 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5156988&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F3%2F333%3Frss%3D1 In 2005, children of sex workers from Kolkata’s Sonagachi red-light district formed their own collective, Amra Padatik (‘We are Foot Soldiers’), to work for gaining dignity for their mothers and claiming their own rights as children of sex workers. In this article the authors speak to AP’s founder members to demystify the culture of fear associated with their lives — perpetuated through popular representations — not to underplay their acute experiences of disadvantage, but to foreground them as politically astute citizens and decision-makers in policies that concern and affect them — to replace the compassion-driven traditional 3Rs of raid, rescue, rehabilitation with 3 counter-Rs: resilience, reworking and resistance. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5156988 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5156988 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5156987&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F3%2F316%3Frss%3D1 This article draws on the insights/questions that emerged while putting together a set of stories for children published in a series named Different Tales. These stories, set in Dalit and other minority communities, problematize the normative grids through which we view ‘childhood’ as they depict the complex ways in which children negotiate and cope with the material conditions of their marginality, often drawing upon the resources and relationships within the community. What follows is a resistance to representing culture as a marker of essentialized difference. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5156987 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5156987 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5156986&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F3%2F298%3Frss%3D1 The article traces the fundamental incoherency that structured the Danish Missionary Society’s work at a boarding school for low-caste ‘heathen’ children in South India in the 1860s and 1870s. Through elaborate disciplinary methods, the missionaries set out to Christianize and civilize the Indian children’s morality, social behaviour and bodily comportment. Yet, the missionaries’ perceptions of ‘the Indian child’ also reflected the contemporary bolstering of racial thinking in Indian colonial society, resulting in doubts whether Indian children could in fact become true Christians. This paradoxical endeavour shows how children became a site for the production of difference that sustained colonialism. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5156986 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5156986 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5156985&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F18%2F3%2F291%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5156985 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5156985 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4820238&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F2%2F274%3Frss%3D1 In Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan adults constantly face the threat of resentment from other members of their community. Evading others’ resentment requires concealing one’s possessions, a feat that in turn entails the immoral act of speaking untruths. Children, however, can utter falsehoods that adults cannot because adults do not see children as principals of harmful words. It is argued in this article, therefore, that K’iche’ children in Santa Catarina are in the ironic situation of having influence on the adult social world precisely because adults do not view children as influential. The article shows how children’s very status as supposedly unimportant individuals gives them the pragmatic power to mediate malicious feelings between adults via their words and ... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4820238 Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4820238 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4820237&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F2%2F261%3Frss%3D1 This article considers the socioeconomic changes that have impacted on the lives of poor children since the end of apartheid in South Africa. In particular, the article highlights the ways in which child labour legislation after 1994 has had the unintended consequence of deepening chronic hunger and childhood poverty on food-rich farms where children formerly participated as seasonal or part-time workers. Drawing on more than 10 years of ethnographic research beginning in 1996 in the Western Cape, this article demonstrates, through its focus on childhood poverty, the trappings of democracy in the post-apartheid era. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4820237 Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4820237 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4820236&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F2%2F242%3Frss%3D1 Drawing on data from a larger ethnographic study, this article explores processes of othering among immigrant children of different ethnic and racial backgrounds at a public elementary school in Cyprus. Immigrant children of Pontian background internalized and reproduced racial and Eurocentric stereotypes against their non-European immigrant classmates, despite the shared experience of marginalization by the Greek-Cypriot majority. Such examinations of children’s negotiations of selfing and othering widen our understandings of how children make meaning of, are influenced by but also shape their worlds, and carry implications for the anthropology of childhood and intercultural education. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4820236 Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4820236 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4820235&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F2%2F227%3Frss%3D1 This article deals with the representation of children in the Swedish welfare state, and particularly how children and parents living in economic hardship are positioned in issues regarding financial aid. According to Article 12 in the UNCRC, children have a right to be heard ‘in any judicial and administrative proceedings affecting the child’. However, children are not participants in processes concerning welfare benefits, despite the effect that the outcome of these processes may have on children’s everyday life. Using welfare benefits appeals as a starting point, the article argues that the impact of the centrality of work discourse in Swedish welfare policy further emphasizes children’s position as passive and non-participants in the welfare discourse. (Source: ... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4820235 Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4820235 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4820234&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F2%2F211%3Frss%3D1 Children’s rights and active citizenship have been significant policy emphases and developments in recent years but the relationship between the two has not been actively explored in relation to the implications for child poverty. Recent policy developments in New Zealand and Sweden are drawn on here to explore this relationship. The article argues that an emphasis on active citizenship does not lead to improvement of rights for all children. Too many children are left in poverty because active citizenship is focused on the lives of adults, not the needs and rights of children. Advancing children’s rights requires attention to the position of all children, not just those who live in households where the adults meet active citizenship requirements. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4820234 Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4820234 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4820233&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F2%2F196%3Frss%3D1 Drawing on a UK research study on immunization, this article investigates parents’ understandings of the relationship between themselves, their infants, other bodies, the state, and cultural practices — material and symbolic. The article argues that infant bodies are best thought of as always social bundles, rather than as biobundles made social through state intervention; and concludes that, while the natural/cultural divide may now be widely accepted as artificial within the social sciences, we need to scrutinize how people in their everyday lives work out, and invest in, the distinction between the two. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4820233 Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4820233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4820232&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F2%2F180%3Frss%3D1 The biographies of individuals in today’s societies are characterized by the need to exert effort and make decisions in planning one’s life course. A ‘self-project’ has to be worked out both retrospectively and prospectively; childhood becomes important as a resource and a laboratory for the self-project. This empirical study analyses how the occupational choices of young people are connected with their occupational aspirations as a child. Children’s aspirations prove to be class-sensitive. Studying the importance of childhood in the self-project thus makes it possible to consider children’s agency in the interconnection of class and generational categories. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4820232 Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4820232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4820231&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F2%2F166%3Frss%3D1 Critiques of child participation within aid programming suggest that it is superficial and insubstantive for the fulfilment of children’s rights. By employing former child research participants as youth research assistants, the collaborative research design developed for my research project on the survival strategies of African orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) has yielded insights with implications for policy and practice that could not be gained without the extended ethnographic inclusion of children, as both participants and researchers. In this article, I share my reflections on doing participatory ethnography with children and youth to demonstrate that ethnographic research is appropriate to the tasks of increasing both children’s participation and the effectiveness of... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4820231 Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4820231 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4820230&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F2%2F151%3Frss%3D1 This article provides a critique of the preoccupation with children’s voices in child-centred research by exploring their limits and problematizing their use in research. The article argues that critical, reflexive researchers need to reflect on the processes which produce children’s voices in research, the power imbalances that shape them and the ideological contexts which inform their production and reception, or in other words issues of representation. At the same time, critical, reflective researchers need to move beyond claims of authenticity and account for the complexity behind children’s voices by exploring their messy, multi-layered and non-normative character. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4820230 Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4820230 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4820229&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F18%2F2%2F147%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4820229 Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4820229 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445496&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F18%2F1%2F142%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445496 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4445496 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445495&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F1%2F128%3Frss%3D1 In this article data are presented on children’s appraisal of clothing retailers and brands, and how this interacts with their identity and social contexts. In exploration of some of the meanings and processes surrounding children’s consumption of branded or labelled clothing, two case studies of child consumers are profiled: one who actively consumed designer-label clothing, and another for whom it held limited significance. It is argued that children aged 12 and under knowingly and skilfully use their consumer knowledge in the reflexive presentation of their selves, or their own ‘me’, but that these practices are structured by their place in the social and generational order. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445495 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4445495 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445494&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F1%2F114%3Frss%3D1 For some years now, a ‘child-centred social investment strategy’ has been gaining influence in the German welfare state. In this context we are witnessing a social-investive turn within the policy for children and families and a significant increase in the importance of early childcare policy. Whereas the German federal government is emphasizing that this investive turn will produce pay-offs for the society’s economy, as well as for the individual child, the analysis in this article is based on recent child-oriented critiques of the social investment approach and points out major risks for children inherent in current early childcare policy in Germany. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445494 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4445494 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445493&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F1%2F94%3Frss%3D1 This article is based on a web-search commissioned by an international charity to review the work of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and charities which promote and support early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the global South. The article examines examples of such initiatives. It is suggested that there is considerable commonality of view and overlap of activities between INGOs and charities whatever their origin in the global North, and whichever countries they are operating in, in the global South. These findings are analysed in the light of theories of knowledge transfer in the field of international development. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445493 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4445493 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445492&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F1%2F81%3Frss%3D1 By taking a reflexive approach to research methodology, this article contributes to discussions on power dynamics and knowledge production in the social studies of children. The author describes and analyzes three research methods that she used with children — drawing, child-led tape-recording and focus group discussions. These methods were carried out during 15 months of research in a low-income urban settlement in Zambia with children (ages 8—12) caring for sick parents or guardians. The research raises two points concerning current conceptions of children’s research methodology. First, it is necessary to investigate what so-called ‘child-oriented’ research methodologies accomplish for adult researchers. Second, acknowledging that children have their own rea... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445492 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4445492 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445491&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F1%2F67%3Frss%3D1 This article explores children’s views of responsibility and their position as responsible beings, drawing on an international research project with a focus on data from 109 children in Norway. Responsibility is explored as a practice that children experience as both a privilege and a burden in childhood. It is argued that there is an interwoven relation between participation rights and responsibilities for children, where ideas of the child as ‘being’ and ‘becoming’, ‘equal’ to and ‘different’ from adults are embedded. A difference-centred perspective is suggested as a way to accommodate children as ‘differently equal’ responsible beings. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445491 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4445491 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445490&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F1%2F54%3Frss%3D1 This article critically analyses research on young people’s internet use. Based on a literature analysis, it examines which young people do what on the internet. These results invite a reflection on the dominant discourse on the digital divide. Within this discourse, there is a strong focus on the use of the internet for information purposes only, a focus which is strongly influenced by the knowledge society. From a pedagogical perspective, the article makes a case for a wider view of this dominant use, since it endangers groups of young people who may already be on the margins of the digital divide. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445490 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4445490 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445489&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F1%2F39%3Frss%3D1 This article explores ways of representing young children’s perspectives in an empathetic and empowering manner. Based on a poststructuralist reinterpretation of ethnographic field notes taken at a Danish day care institution, the article argues, first of all, that in order to represent young children’s perspectives in an ethically sound manner, it is necessary to combine the ‘voice approach’ with ethnomethodological insights and critical sociological analysis, which together enable ‘critical sociological empathy’. Second, that a methodological strategy that combines differentiated researcher participant roles with a ‘least adult role’ approach, enhances the possibilities of successfully achieving empathetic and empowering representation of y... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445489 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4445489 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445488&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F1%2F20%3Frss%3D1 The aim of the article is to outline key elements of the street children subculture in Makeevka, Ukraine, with an emphasis on the functions of a subculture and its manifestations of collectivity. The research was based on qualitative and quantitative data and was conducted from 2000 to 2009. Data analysis suggests that collectivity functions on three different levels: inner-group, group and supra-group levels and that the subculture of street children combines elements of a classical subculture with those of a neo-tribe. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445488 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4445488 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445487&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F18%2F1%2F7%3Frss%3D1 Childhood research has long shared a bio-political terrain with state agencies in which children figure primarily as ‘human futures’. In the 20th century bio-social dualism helped to make that terrain navigable by researchers, but, as life processes increasingly become key sites of bio-political action, bio-social dualism is becoming less useful as a navigational aid. The contribution that a view of childhood as a ‘hybrid’ phenomenon might make to developing new navigational aids is considered. A Foucaultian reading of the history of childhood bio-politics yields three ‘multiplicities’ of childhood. The assistance these can offer in navigating the contemporary biopolitics of childhood is described. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445487 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4445487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445486&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F18%2F1%2F3%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445486 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4445486 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189834&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F17%2F4%2F573%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189834 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189834 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189833&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F17%2F4%2F568%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189833 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189833 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189832&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F17%2F4%2F566%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189832 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189832 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189831&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F17%2F4%2F565%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189831 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189831 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189830&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F17%2F4%2F563%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189830 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189830 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189829&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F4%2F545%3Frss%3D1 This study explores the potential of the ‘draw-and-write’ method for inviting children to communicate salient aspects of their self-concept. Irish primary school children aged 10—13 years drew and wrote about their favourite people and things to do (social and active self). Children drew and described many salient activities (39 in total) and people — including pets. Results suggest that widely used, adult-constructed self-esteem scales for children, while multidimensional, are limited, and that ‘draw-and-write’ is an effective multimodal method with which children can express their social and active self-concepts. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189829 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189829 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189828&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F4%2F530%3Frss%3D1 This article discusses the research approach in ‘Pathways through Childhood’, a small qualitative study drawing on memories of childhood. The research explores how wider social arrangements and social change influence children’s everyday lives.The article discusses the way that the concepts of social memory, space and time have been drawn on to access and analyse children’s experiences, arguing that attention to the temporal and spatial complexity of childhood reveals less visible yet formative influences and connections. Children’s everyday engagements involve connections between past and present time, between children, families, communities and nations, and between different places. Children carve out space and time for themselves from these complex relation... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189828 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189828 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189827&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F4%2F514%3Frss%3D1 This article explores English children’s use of mobile phones in managing and maintaining friendships and relationships in their everyday lives. Based on the accounts of 30 young people aged between 11 and 17, this research adopts a social constructivist perspective to offer a theoretical framework which explores how children themselves actually use mobile phone technologies and understand risk in their everyday lives. This is an interpretative account that offers a methodological rationale for hearing children’s voices and viewing them as experts on their own lives. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189827 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189827 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189826&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F4%2F500%3Frss%3D1 This article approaches childhood as an emergent condition in which children, their caregivers and toys all take an active part and argues that the focus on toys opens important insights for studying processes of social reproduction and change. This is demonstrated by describing children’s interactions with virtual pets that encourage children to become mobile in a manner that is only possible through digital technologies. This mobility is at heart of local orientations of how to be part of the world, but by subscribing to it children are not simply mimicking the adult world: when children make the pursuit of mobility their own project, they also make it distinctively theirs. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189826 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189826 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189825&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F4%2F485%3Frss%3D1 This article argues that childhood studies has reached a crossroads in its development because of the growing diversity of the interests and agendas that are now being pursued under the interdisciplinary umbrella of childhood studies. As a consequence, fault-lines are beginning to emerge in what was once a unified project, reflecting tensions between key areas and theoretical positions. It goes on to outline a model for reconceptualizing childhood studies that weaves these different positions together, making them necessary and interdependent components of the same field rather than competing and potentially exclusionary perspectives. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189825 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189824&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F4%2F470%3Frss%3D1 Since the early 1990s, liberal welfare regimes have begun to treat lone parents as workers rather than as carers. This has happened in conjunction with an ongoing ‘moral panic’ about the need to develop policies to invest in children, and to protect them from adult worlds. The purpose of this article is to analyse contradictions within and between these strands of policy in two liberal welfare states — Australia and the UK. The article argues that recent welfare-to-work policies in both countries bring into sharp relief the contradictions inherent in assumptions that welfare states make about the agency of lone parents as workers and carers, and of children as incompetent. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189824 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189824 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189823&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F4%2F455%3Frss%3D1 This study investigates conceptions of early childhood discipline strategies discussed in focus groups with parents and grandparents in a poor urban area in Tanzania. A grounded theory analysis suggested a model that included four discipline strategies related to corporal punishment: to beat with care, to treat like an egg, as if beating a snake and the non-care of non-beating. In order to develop strategies to prevent corporal punishment in the home in accordance with the UN recommendation and article 19 in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the power of caregiving needs further investigation. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189823 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189823 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189822&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F4%2F441%3Frss%3D1 This article considers friendship among street children in Accra. Drawing upon the findings of a three-year qualitative research project, the article argues that friendship is a neglected element of research yet cooperation, mutuality and exchange between friends are essential to street children’s survival. Living within the extremities of the urban informal sector, the article considers the existence of a strong ethos of ‘help’ between friends and how street children go about the (re) creation of friendship around those aspects of their lives essential for their daily survival. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189822 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189822 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4189821&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F17%2F4%2F435%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189821 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4189821 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3980439&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F17%2F3%2F430%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3980439 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0100 3980439 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3980438&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F17%2F3%2F426%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3980438 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0100 3980438 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3980437&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F3%2F411%3Frss%3D1 This article presents the perspectives of Australian and English children on the broad terms worry, happy and change. Utilizing a qualitative methodology, the study engaged with pre-adolescent children (‘tweens’) on the issues affecting them in the modern world. Participants were drawn from a large regional secondary school in Eastern Australia and a comparable regional secondary school in England. Students completed an open-ended questionnaire. In both contexts, many of the children identified specific personal and predominantly social priorities. In their responses, the children tended towards features in their lives that reflected the high importance of individual relationships. The factors that give rise to the identified importance of the family relationship reveal their p... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3980437 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0100 3980437 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3980436&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F3%2F396%3Frss%3D1 Children in South Africa are educated to identify with democratic values and democracy in post-apartheid society. As yet, we have no empirical evidence on their views on and identification with the new South African democracy. When given an opportunity to express their life experiences, the 9-year-old child citizens of this case study revealed their democratic identity on various levels. These children expressed a weak identification with democracy on the local level but a strong identification with democracy on the national level. The authors argue that the weak identification on the local level may influence the children’s identification with democracy negatively. It is the key finding of this study that a lack of democratic identification may endanger the sustainability of the Sou... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3980436 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0100 3980436 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3980435&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F3%2F376%3Frss%3D1 This article focuses on their use of pretence to establish, define and formulate places within their peer interaction. A talk-in-interaction approach is used to analyse video-recorded and transcribed interactions of children aged 4—6 years in the block area of an early childhood classroom in Australia. The complex and collaborative interactive work of the children produced shared understandings of pretence, which they used as a device to manage their use of classroom physical and social spaces. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3980435 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0100 3980435 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3980434&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F3%2F360%3Frss%3D1 This article critically explores data generated within a participatory research project with young people in the care of a local authority, the (Extra)ordinary Lives project. The project involved ethnographic multi-media data generation methods used in groups and individually with eight participants (aged 10—20) over a school year and encouraged critical reflexive practices throughout. The article problematizes aspects of power, ethics and agency in participatory research from poststructural perspectives and cautions against the assumption that participatory research per se necessarily produces ‘better’ research data, equalizes power relations or enhances ethical integrity. Yet, throughout the article, there are examples of the potential contributions and challenges of pa... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3980434 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0100 3980434 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3980433&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F3%2F343%3Frss%3D1 Children’s participation is increasingly ambiguous and contested. Such complexity emerges in response to its emancipatory possibilities as well as unresolved tensions and power practices. The authors argue that closer attention must now be given to the interpretative milieu of children’s participation, that is, to the act of dialogue that has emerged as central to the participatory process. They point to the need for a critical examination of dialogue in facilitating and resisting the recognition of children. The article concludes with a number of questions to be addressed, if a dialogic approach to participation is to be more fully realized. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3980433 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0100 3980433 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3980432&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F3%2F329%3Frss%3D1 This article explores the ways in which teenagers occupy and manage space in one divided community in Northern Ireland. Drawing on stories, maps and focus group discussions with 80 teenagers, from an interface area in Belfast, the article reveals their perceptions and experiences of divided cities, as risky landscapes. Teenagers respond to these risks in various ways, at times reiterating traditional sectarian prejudices and at times demonstrating resilience in coping with growing up in a risky location. In the process, young people develop strategies of resistance, which at times support, and at times undermine, the wider ideologies underpinning ethnic conflict in Northern Ireland. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3980432 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0100 3980432 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3980431&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F3%2F312%3Frss%3D1 This article presents findings that highlight children’s construction and experience of racism and nationalism among a sample of Greek-Cypriot (the majority) and Turkish-speaking (the minority) children in Greek-Cypriot schools through the lens of intersectionality theory. The article first reviews previous work in relation to children, racism and nationalism and describes the theoretical framework that is grounded in intersectionality theory. The second section outlines the study, its sociopolitical context and its methodology. The third section presents findings with respect to three areas: Greek-Cypriot children’s perceptions of Turkish-speaking children; Turkish-speaking children’s experiences of racism and nationalism; and children’s strategies to negotiate rac... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3980431 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0100 3980431 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3980430&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F3%2F297%3Frss%3D1 This study explores two aspects of the privatization of childhood in contemporary urban China: the emergent discourse on children’s privacy and children’s growing seclusion within the home. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the author describes urban caregivers’ engagement with the issue of children’s privacy, and argues that we are now witnessing a transformation in Chinese notions of childhood, privacy and subjectivity. The result of a complex interaction between official discourses, demographic changes and economic forces, this transformation is also a product of the persistent influence of Confucian values, and the unique childhood experiences of a particular generation of urban Chinese parents. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3980430 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0100 3980430 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3980429&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F17%2F3%2F291%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3980429 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0100 3980429 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3826790&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F2%2F273%3Frss%3D1 This article explores the experiences of ‘home’ for British-born Bangladeshi children who are active members of transnational families. The article illustrates that these children, who are mobile between Sylhet and London, play an active role in maintaining transnational linkages. The article critiques the omission of children’s perspectives in understanding ideas and practices of ‘home’ within the diaspora and among transnational families. A key finding is that while children identify Sylhet and London as ‘home’, the experience of these places differs in accordance with the different social relations, practices and material circumstances through which they experience these places. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3826790 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:50:37 +0100 3826790 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3826789&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F2%2F259%3Frss%3D1 Independent youth migration is socially embedded in many African societies. While it is often exclusively perceived of as a process of intergenerational negotiation which leads to higher social positions after returning home, this article points out that peer influences play a major role in the process of decision-making of leaving and returning among young northern Ghanaian males. Juvenile migrants make little effort to generate means to enter into adulthood but struggle to return with modern goods. Rather than being a means of achieving adulthood, enjoying youth and gaining recognition among friends are the prevailing motives for going and returning. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3826789 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:50:37 +0100 3826789 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3826788&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F2%2F243%3Frss%3D1 Through its focus on children and return migration, this article addresses two invisibilities within migration research. It presents the experiences of children as equal movers in returning households, drawing on research with them in their domestic spaces. Exploring how children negotiate coming ‘home’ and highlighting their experiences from their own perspective promotes an understanding of the everyday practices that underpin return migration. It reveals differences between children and their parents to highlight what can be lost in accounts of migration through the exclusion of children’s experiences. In particular, it shows how children engage in more mobile, transient and smaller-scale homemaking practices. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3826788 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:50:37 +0100 3826788 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3826787&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F2%2F229%3Frss%3D1 Among the Maasai of southern Kenya, child circulation in the form of adoption is widespread. It persists despite increased family nuclearization and pervasive sedentarizing discourses depicting ‘modern’ family life as small, settled and nuclear. Through the perspectives and experiences of 10 families having undergone adoption, this article examines the processes by which parents and children attempt to recreate kinship and foster belonging. Emphasis on children’s sentiments and actions not only demonstrate children’s active role in the making and unmaking of kinship but also their resistance to development ideals of family and residential fixity. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3826787 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:50:37 +0100 3826787 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3826786&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F2%2F213%3Frss%3D1 This article seeks to provide an insight into the experiences of young women who in legal, policy and migration research terms are placed along the borders of this category divide. The article explores the experiences of young (16- to 25-year-old) refugee and asylum-seeking women in the UK and examines the role of im/mobility in their negotiations of home. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3826786 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:50:37 +0100 3826786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3826785&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F2%2F197%3Frss%3D1 This study explores the adaptation of unaccompanied Sudanese refugee minors resettled in the US. Seven years after resettlement, in-depth interviews were conducted with 19 Sudanese youths and 20 foster parents regarding factors that contributed to successful adaptation. The youths emphasized personal agency and staying focused on getting an education. Foster parents emphasized the contribution of youths’ developmental histories to individual differences in personal attributes that, with contextual supports, influenced their trajectories after resettlement. Parents and youths differed in their views on the role that mental health and cultural obligations to family members in Africa played in successful adaptation. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3826785 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:50:37 +0100 3826785 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3826784&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F2%2F181%3Frss%3D1 This article argues that a sense of local belonging and emotional attitudes to one’s neighbourhood are inherently interconnected. It explores immigrant children’s emotional experiences of their neighbourhoods in Paris and Berlin through subjective maps drawn by the children. The article highlights the social and spatial nature of immigrant children’s belongings, and how their different emotional geographies are connected to differential access to material resources, extra-curricular education and their migration histories. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3826784 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:50:37 +0100 3826784 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3826783&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F2%2F163%3Frss%3D1 This article uses data from empirical research with young people in a German secondary school and a Canadian junior high school to highlight young people’s situated competences and their critique of the respective frameworks of belonging. (Source: Childhood) Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3826783 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:50:37 +0100 3826783 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3826782&cid=s_32759_144_f&fid=32759&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchd.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F17%2F2%2F155%3Frss%3D1 This article introduces a special issue on childhood and migration. It argues that understandings of the ways in which children form belongings and attachments are enhanced by conducting research with children who migrate or who live mobile and transnational lives. The articles in this collection highlight the mobile and translocal nature of children’s lives, from different perspectives and in different global and migration contexts. Taken together, they make a number of key contributions to an emerging literature on the lives of migrant, mobile and diasporic children and young people. They emphasize the situated and contextualized nature of migrant children’s negotiations of home and belonging. In particular, the collection explores children’s and young people’s co... Childhood journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3826782 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:50:37 +0100 3826782 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