Children, politics and communication : participation at the margins / edited by Nigel Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thomas, Nigel, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's rights.

Children and adults.

Child psychology.

Children--Services for.

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 204 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Policy Press, 2009.

Summary:

Even after 20 years of children's rights and new thinking about childhood, children are still frequently seen as apolitical. All over the world there has been a growing emphasis on 'participation', but much of this is adult-led, and spaces for children's individual and collective autonomy are limited. "Children, politics and communication" questions many of the conventional ways in which children are perceived. It focuses on the politics of children's communication, in two senses: children as political actors, and the micropolitics of children's interaction with each other and with adults. It looks at how children and young people communicate and engage, how they organise themselves and their lives, and how they deal with conflict in their relationships and the world around them. These are children at the margins, in various ways, but they are not victims; they are finding ways to take charge of their own lives. The book is also about adults and how they can interact with children and young people in ways that are sensitive to children's feelings, empowering and supportive of their attempts to be autonomous. With international contributions from a range of disciplines, "Children, politics and communication" is timely and relevant for policy makers, practitioners and researchers engaging with children and young people.

Contents:

Children,politics and communication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Introduction: children, politics and communication; 1. Charting change in theparticipatory settings of childhood; 2. Children's autonomous organisation: reflections from the ground; 3. The children of Loxicha: participation beyond the UNCRC rhetoric?; 4. Displaced children's participation in political violence: towards greater understanding of mobilisation; 5. Between a rock and a hard place: negotiating age and identity in the UK asylum system

6. Understanding silences and secrets when working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children7. Doing Britishness: multilingual practices, creativity and criticality of British Chinese children; 8. Closings in young children's disputes: resolution, dissipation and teacher intervention; 9. Keeping connected: textual cohesion and textual selves, how young people stay together online; Conclusion: autonomy, dialogue and recognition; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Jan 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612412653

9781447301813

1447301811

9781282412651

1282412655

9781847421852

1847421857

OCLC:

507436153