Emma Weatherill, S. Corcoran, Shuang Yin Cheryl Ng
{"title":"Street-connectedness through a COVID-19 lens: Exploring media representations of street-connected children to understand their societal positionality","authors":"Emma Weatherill, S. Corcoran, Shuang Yin Cheryl Ng","doi":"10.1177/20436106231156469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106231156469","url":null,"abstract":"The 2017 general comment (GC21) to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) on children in street situations, provides a framework of legal guidance for governments developing policies aimed at protecting street-connected children and sets up the rationale for more awareness raising and public education to counter negative and deficit attitudes towards street-connectedness. Within this framework, the media has a role to play in either challenging conceptualisations of street-connected children as out-of-place within the public and predominantly adult domain described by urban streets, or in reinforcing ideological constructions of citizenship and normalised notions of childhood that result in negative stereotypes of these children. GC21 recommends that interventions targeted at street-connected children should be ethically responsible – adopting child rights approaches aimed at using accurate data/evidence that upholds the dignity of children, their personal integrity, and their right to life. As such, these approaches should also extend to how organisations engage with and utilise the media to represent street-connected children. Focusing on media representations of street-connected children during the six pandemic-affected months of February to July 2020, this paper provides a review of the content of the sources to provide an insight into the structural barriers that face street-connected children because of how they are positioned in society, during the pandemic and in general, and the extent to which the media reinforces or counters the rescue or removal narratives that can lead to inappropriate intervention responses.","PeriodicalId":37143,"journal":{"name":"Global Studies of Childhood","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47394175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Programming for older children in School Age Care: Adult and child engagement with developmental pedagogies","authors":"Bruce Hurst","doi":"10.1177/20436106231156467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106231156467","url":null,"abstract":"How to work with older children has been ongoing question in Australian School Age Care (SAC) for over 30 years. Children aged 10–12 years are often spoken of as a problematic Other whose pose a risk to the younger children who attend SAC in higher proportions. This article aims to address the gap in research about what practices might work with this age group. It draws on a qualitative study conducted with SAC practitioners and older children who attend SAC. In semi-structured interviews, practitioners were asked about what strategies they employed with older children. These strategies are then viewed in relation to the perspectives of older children who were consulted via participatory methods and ethnography about what good SAC might look like. The research explores two approaches that draw on developmental knowledges, the use of separate spaces and resources, and a role called apprentice educator. Whilst older children appear to value strategies like age-segregated spaces and resources, they are less likely to take up adult-like, apprentice educator roles curated for them by practitioners. Older children’s responses to these strategies can be understood as powerful acts around developmental discourses that construct and reconstruct the category of older child in SAC.","PeriodicalId":37143,"journal":{"name":"Global Studies of Childhood","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44078509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Elders’ cultural knowledge and the question of Black/African Indigeneity in Education, Critical studies of education","authors":"Temitope Funminiyi Egbedeyi","doi":"10.1177/20436106231156468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106231156468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37143,"journal":{"name":"Global Studies of Childhood","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48885179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thank you to reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/20436106231154658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106231154658","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37143,"journal":{"name":"Global Studies of Childhood","volume":"344 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135637668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-thinking childhood in Peru: A critical discourse analysis of Peruvian early childhood policies","authors":"Stefania Vindrola","doi":"10.1177/20436106221131060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106221131060","url":null,"abstract":"Early childhood has become a priority in national and international political agendas. In the last decade, states have elaborated social policies and launched a variety of programmes for young children. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, this research explores the most prominent conceptualisations of children and childhood underpinning official Early Childhood policies in Peru, drawing on theoretical frameworks from childhood studies. The study identified the existence of a convergence of discourses about children and childhood in the policy documents which are based on different perspectives: developmental psychology, human capital theory and a children’s rights-based approach. From this analysis, I argue that early childhood policies in Peru evidence a developmentalist predominance that has problematic implications in the context of the country’s bicentennial anniversary of independence. I analyse how this developmental focus leads to a lack of sensitivity about the impact of cultural factors on children’s experiences and on the exercise of their rights, particularly on children’s right to participation. Finally, I argue for a rethinking of Peruvian early childhood policies and future policymaking processes using a sociological lens, in order to accomplish the State’s objective of building a post-bicentennial nation that is able to secure improvements on children’s lives and advance social justice.","PeriodicalId":37143,"journal":{"name":"Global Studies of Childhood","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47699140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking time: Producing time and toddler’s time to think in ECEC","authors":"Anna R. Moxnes, Teresa K. Aslanian","doi":"10.1177/20436106221117844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106221117844","url":null,"abstract":"Toddlers contribute to early childhood education and care (ECEC) environments in unique ways in contrast to older children and adults. In this article, we explore early childhood teachers’ stories about toddlers, thinking, and time. We follow a moment with a toddler’s story told with his fingers, and discuss it through teachers’ stories. Our focus is on what ideas about toddlers, time, and thinking these stories produce, and how these ideas affect toddler’s possibilities to contribute to daily life in ECEC. We use Barad’s concepts spacetimematter and temporal diffraction; and Haraway’s concept Capitalocene and storying, to explore toddlers thinking and time in ECEC. We argue that the dominant concept of time in the Capitalocene can produce thoughtlessness, connected to children and children’s opportunities to participate. Through a process of “storying,” we hope to generate more and maybe different knowledge about toddlers, thinking, and time.","PeriodicalId":37143,"journal":{"name":"Global Studies of Childhood","volume":"12 1","pages":"277 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48401281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: The spectacle of ‘tantruming toddler’: Reconfiguring child/hood(s) of the Capitalocene","authors":"J. Osgood, J. Kroeger, Julia Persky","doi":"10.1177/20436106221117200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106221117200","url":null,"abstract":"This Themed Edition emerged from a deep concern that we share regarding the recent growth in forms of intensified and virulent childism. We have been particularly struck by a specific form of childism that has circulated in popular culture, through myriad media outlets, that seeks to parody powerful male leaders as ‘tantruming toddlers’ in late Capitalism (e.g. Crump, 2021; Hyde, 2020). This was especially prevalent in media portrayals of Donald Trump during his presidency (Cavna, 2017). It seems that likening Trump’s abhorrent behaviour (selfish, unreasonable, angry, intolerant, insolent and intolerable) to that of a small child is the worst insult that can be waged against an adult man in a position of power. This is a phenomenon that stretches beyond the geopolitical context of the USA and has far reaching consequences. There are traces and examples of this pernicious form of childism in numerous other geopolitical contexts, across time and space (e.g. Alvares, 2020; Pesek, 2013). As such, it raises important considerations for childhood scholars concerned about the state of the world and the place of child/hood(s), both materially and discursively, at this particular moment. Such reductionist and grotesque portrayals of ‘child’ work to denigrate and limit ideas about child/hood within the public imagination and so actively silences other accounts of contemporary child/hood. This collection of critical childhood studies scholarship seeks to intervene by offering a range of alternative narratives that grapple with the ways in which the image of the child might be rethought as a means to directly challenge the notion that the misbehaving toddler somehow embodies and epitomizes hyper-capitalism.","PeriodicalId":37143,"journal":{"name":"Global Studies of Childhood","volume":"12 1","pages":"199 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66154785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CODA: Seismic knots of (un)knowing “toddler”(s)","authors":"J. Kroeger, Julia Persky, J. Osgood","doi":"10.1177/20436106221117203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106221117203","url":null,"abstract":"Coming into this themed edition, many of us, perhaps most of us, were (and still are) enraged. Our hackles were raised. From the Latin cauda “tail of an animal,” we speak. Our, *kaud-a“part; tail,” is cleaved, separate, from the work of the collection, flicking here. We were enraged by the ugly parts of the world that had proliferated, effects of late capitalism, even within the certainty of our own settled, privileged, and mostly secure academic lives. We were unsettled by Capitalocene’s effects, which surface everywhere including in the forces of our work, productivity, efficiency, and consumerism. Knitting together, putting on our pussy hats, thinking otherwise about our shared futures with children, we formed our own pack (pact). Teachers can be witches and ballerinas, bitches of sorts, doing their best work in muddy gardens, and small backrooms, in cluttered classrooms, and noisy playgrounds. We worked from what is in the bag, our pitchforks, turning the soil, airing out our whimsical thinking caps, adding bit of yarn, an irony, or some grammarly glue, because when such tools are used together, all sorts of fundicity and “mischief of one kind or another” can ensue (Sendak, 1963). Glaring to many of us at the turn of 2019 were such things as, frequent reports of human tragedies, military occupations or the threat of them, increasing severity and frequency of climate related disasters (earthquakes, floods, fires) followed by reports of long months when many regions of the world were without power, water, food, or hope. Many of us raged, as our powerful governments and world leaders were slow to or not willing to act, and instead played golf, ate Big Macs, spent our money, raised our taxes, and talked about birthday cake. We were unhinged further by images that can’t be unremembered, by media reports of mass movement of human bodies across national and international lines, often accompanied by portrayals of children in foil blankets behind fences; images of toddlers floating alongside wailing and grieving fathers; reports of suckling","PeriodicalId":37143,"journal":{"name":"Global Studies of Childhood","volume":"12 1","pages":"310 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47810451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘That’s enough!’ (But it wasn’t): The generative possibilities of attuning to what else a tantrum can do","authors":"J. Osgood, Victoria de Rijke","doi":"10.1177/20436106221117167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106221117167","url":null,"abstract":"Often used in the plural, tantrum denotes an uncontrolled outburst of anger and frustration, typically in a young child. In this paper we attempt to enact a feminist project of reclamation and reconfiguration of ‘the toddler tantrum’. Drawing on a range of theoretical traditions, this paper investigates the complex yet generative possibilities inherent within the tantrum to argue that it can be encountered as more-than-human, as a worldly-becoming, and as a form of resistance to Anthropocentrism and childism. We propose that the tantrum might be reappraised as a generative form of (child) activism. By mobilising the potential of arts-based approaches to the study of childhood we seek to reach other, opened out and speculative accounts of what tantrum-ing is, what it makes possible, and what it might offer to stretch ideas about, and practices with very young children. We undertake a tentacular engagement with children’s literature to arrive at possibilities to resist smoothing out, extinguishing or demonising the uncomfortable affective ecologies that are agitated by child rage. This paper brings together a concern with affect, materialities and bodies as they coalesce in more-than-human relationalities captured within ‘the tantrum’. In doing so, the unthinkable, the unbearable, the uncomfortable and the unknowable are set in motion, in the hope of arriving at a (more) critically affirmative account of childhood in all its messy complexity.","PeriodicalId":37143,"journal":{"name":"Global Studies of Childhood","volume":"12 1","pages":"235 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48964369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}