Revisiting Contemporary Childhoods : International Research on Children's Voice and Agency.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacon, Kate.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agent (Philosophy).

Autonomy (Psychology) in children.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2026.

Summary:

Offering a timely and critical examination of the pressures shaping children's lives - across societies, systems and settings - this book challenges readers to rethink the dominant idealisations of childhood, pushing forward new conversations about childhood in the 21st century.

Contents:

Front Cover

Revisiting Contemporary Childhoods: International Research on Children's Voice and Agency

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Foreword

Being visible

A temporal dimension to change making

Valuing slow research in urgent times

Introduction

References

1 Valuing childness

Exposing normative discourses of childhood

Naming inequality and discrimination against children

Challenging stereotypes

Conclusion

2 Children's playful artistic representations as catalysts to navigate and construct social and cultural worlds

Framing the young child as capable and competent

Accessing perezhivanie through play and artistic representations

Researching young children's play and artistic representations

Findings and discussion

Existing framing of children's play and artistic representations

Disrupting children's playful artistic representations

Butterfly's plasticine

Rahala's plasticine

Notes

3 Foster children's participative citizenship within the context of family relationships: the case of Spain

Conceptualising children's participation and lived citizenship

Spanish social policy and child welfare

Methodology and ethical considerations

Belonging, connection and emotional support

Reciprocal caring practices within foster families

Decision-​making and agency in foster family homes

Discussion

4 Children as active agents shaping women's strategies in terminating male-​to-​female intimate partner violence

The study

Children as relational agents

Protecting each other from impacts of IPV

Negotiating ideas about family life.

Children challenging or perpetuating patterns of violence

Funding

5 Misogyny uploaded: the influence of digital misogyny and the manosphere in boys and adolescents' identities

Children's digital lives

The rise of gendered cyberhate and misogyny

Discursive terrain of boyhoods and adolescent masculinities

Manosphere and toxic masculinities of boys and adolescent males

Practitioner and policy responses

6 The struggle facing children and professionals in relation to child participation in public law Children Act proceedings

Background

Theoretical ideas about childhood and child participation

Methodology

Key discourses shaping the understanding of childhood and child participation

The 'essential child' discourse -​ a professional perspective of childhood

The pragmatic child discourse -​ a proceedings-​experienced perspective of childhood

The 'Illusion of Participation' -​ a professional participant's perspective of child participation

Welfare-​through-​participation discourse -​ a proceedings-​experienced perspective of child participation

Archive sources

7 Are NGO schools for marginal childhoods congruous (non)places?

Marginal childhoods and NGO (non)places

Research site, participants and methods

Disciplining and relationship building in NGO schools

Marginal childhoods and aesthetic politics of belonging

Children's voices and agency: two narratives

Note

8 Children as witnesses of death and mourning: reflections on wartime memories and drawings from World War II

The context of mourning

Tracing children's mourning

Wartime memories as data

References.

9 Politicising childhoods

Provincialisation of childhood

Politics 'of' childhood

Politics 'in' childhood

Politics of waiting or refusal?

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4473-7182-8

9781447371823

OCLC:

1583175106