Participation, Citizenship and Trust in Children's Lives

Participation, Citizenship and Trust in Children's Lives
Author: H. Warming
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137295783

This book critically analyzes and theorizes trust dynamics in children's lives and how they impact upon children's participation, citizenship and well-being, drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that examines trust in various institutional and cultural contexts.

Participation, Citizenship and Trust in Children's Lives

Participation, Citizenship and Trust in Children's Lives
Author: H. Warming
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137295783

This book critically analyzes and theorizes trust dynamics in children's lives and how they impact upon children's participation, citizenship and well-being, drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that examines trust in various institutional and cultural contexts.

European Social Work – A Compendium

European Social Work – A Compendium
Author: Fabian Kessl
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3847408178

The publication takes account of the fundamental developments transforming social work in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. A European standard of social work has already emerged, but models for future European social work are absent. Therefore the compendium gives an overview of the current transformation process for the first time, discusses the visible and invisible changes and maps out where social work is positioned in the emerging post-welfare states.

Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society

Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society
Author: Hanne Warming
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319550683

This edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions. The book centres on the everyday experiences through which people practice, negotiate, understand and feel their citizenship. The authors offer both empirical analyses of how social work influences the rights, obligations, identities and belongings of children, homeless people, migrants, ethnic minorities, and young people with mental disabilities; and a theoretical framework for analysing the complexities of social work. Drawing on the notion of intimate citizenship and an understanding of citizenship as socio-spatial, the theoretical framework addresses the challenges of enhancing the agency of social work clients and of promoting inclusive citizenship, and how these challenges are shaped by emotions, affect, rationality, materiality, power relations, policies and managerial strategies. Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including social policy and social work.

Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential

Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential
Author: E.K.M. Tisdall
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137316543

Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative.

Children’s Self-determination in the Context of Early Childhood Education and Services

Children’s Self-determination in the Context of Early Childhood Education and Services
Author: Federico Farini
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2019-06-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030145565

This book investigates the position of young children’s self-determination within a range of social contexts, such as education, social care, mass-media, health, politics, law and the family. It brings to the fore the voices of the children in the present, with their interests, agendas and rights. Based on original primary research, the chapters tackle hegemonic discourses on children’s self-determination as well as current policies and practices. They address a broad range of topics, from the planning of role-play to national policies, from the use of digital technologies for pedagogy to children’s health and well-being, and from democratic practices in the classroom to the preservation of traditional family values. The book presents case studies to unravel how childhood and young children’s self-determination are constructed at the intersection with intergenerational relationships. Coming from different disciplines and using a diverse range of methodological traditions, the contributions in the volume eventually converge to generate a rich, complex and multi-layered analysis of contemporary cultures of childhood and young children’s rights.

Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood

Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood
Author: Florian Esser
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2016-02-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317524411

By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research on children’s agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines. This has made agency one of the key concepts of Childhood Studies, with articles on the subject featured in handbooks and encyclopaedias. Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood is the first collection devoted to the central concept of agency in Childhood Studies. With contributions from experts in the field, the chapters cover theoretical, practical, historical, transnational and institutional dimensions of agency, rekindling discussion and introducing fundamental and contemporary sociological perspectives to the field of research. Particular attention is paid to connecting agency in the social sciences with Childhood Studies, considering both the theoretical foundations and the practice of research into agency. Empirical case studies are also explored, which focus upon child protection, schools and childcare at a variety of institutions worldwide. This book is an essential reference for students and scholars of Childhood Studies, and is also relevant to Sociology, Social Work, Education, Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and Geography. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Facilitating Children's Agency in the Interaction

Facilitating Children's Agency in the Interaction
Author: Claudio Baraldi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2022-10-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3031099788

This book analyzes children's agency as interactional achievement in formal and informal contexts of education and illuminates how agency can be encouraged and supported in these educational contexts. Taking a sociological approach, the author deals with children as social agents rather than learners and considers structures of interaction which encourage and support agency, rather than teaching. The book draws from field research conducted over more than twenty years in a variety of Italian and international contexts. This book is unique in providing a theoretical reflection on the social structures that can support children’s agency, as well as a large amount of examples which show how these structures and agency work.

Parental Involvement Across European Education Systems

Parental Involvement Across European Education Systems
Author: Angelika Paseka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351066323

This book addresses central questions regarding parental involvement across European educational systems; exploring the commonalities and differences across European countries and the extent to which current policy and practice pertaining to parental involvement is inclusive of diversity. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws from the fields of education, sociology and psychology, it presents a description of the policy context and empirical research on critical perspectives relating to parental involvement. Comprising a rich varied cross-section of national experiences from eleven European countries and the contexts surrounding them, case studies provide insights into parental involvement across Europe and identify challenges in the field. This volume’s in-depth approach and comprehensive interrogation of parental involvement across European education systems make it an ideal resource for parents, teachers and academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of education policy and comparative education, as well as teacher educators and policy makers.

Soul of Society

Soul of Society
Author: Mary Nicole Warehime
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784410594

As social scientists, we are called to investigate society. A powerful component of understanding society can be found when researching the lives of children and youth. This volume provides a glimpse into these lives.