{"title":"What can I do for my community? Contributing to the promotion of civic engagement through participatory methodologies: The case of young people from border regions of mainland Portugal","authors":"Nicolas Martins da Silva, Sofia Marques da Silva","doi":"10.1111/chso.12824","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12824","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explains how participatory approaches can promote civic engagement among young people, resulting from their active involvement in the research process, namely identifying their communities' priorities and problems. Five project-building sessions were held with young people from five contexts located in the border regions of mainland Portugal. The data supporting this article were collected during sessions dedicated to identifying and exploring community-based problems and priorities and designing projects to address those local challenges. The results show the importance of contextualising young people's experiences and priorities, here related to their own community and its well-being and development. It is here that using participatory methodologies can create opportunities for young people to participate in processes of community change.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 3","pages":"892-908"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138566778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transitional support interventions for care leavers: A scoping review","authors":"Julie Feather, Dan Allen, Rhian Crompton, Zoey Jones, Angela Christiansen, Gavin Butler","doi":"10.1111/chso.12825","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12825","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The purpose of this scoping review was to identify and map knowledge on different types of transitional support interventions currently available to support transition to independent living for care leavers. An extensive search using four research databases was undertaken, resulting in 36 relevant articles for inclusion. Findings were organised thematically into four broad areas: (1) Extended care; (2) A Helping Relationship; (3) Family; and (4) Employment, Education and Training. Findings show that offering a combination of targeted interventions can contribute to a more successful transition. Effective relationship-based practices are critical to the success of transitional support interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 5","pages":"1579-1601"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12825","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138566578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russian fathers' involvement in childcare, children's education and housework during the COVID-19 lockdown","authors":"Oxana Mikhaylova, Elizaveta Sivak","doi":"10.1111/chso.12823","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12823","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study attempts to determine whether the increasing need for parental assistance with schooling and the improved options for this owing to remote work had an impact on fathers' involvement in childcare, children's education and housework during the COVID-19 lockdown. We make use of information from a May 2020 online poll of 1359 Russian mothers. Using binary logistic regression, we examine the links between fathers' work schedules, the need for additional school support for children and an increase in father involvement. We compare father involvement in children's education and childcare before and during the lockdown. Our findings partially corroborate the ‘needs exposure’ theory, which holds that greater awareness of family needs can boost fathers' engagement. Furthermore, they emphasize that, given the high likelihood of upcoming pandemics and other crises affecting family life, considerable steps should be taken to promote gender equality in the family and the workplace. Such actions might be advantageous for the health of both parents and children.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 6","pages":"1881-1898"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138545148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The culture trap: Ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for Black youthBy Derron Wallace, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 296. £74.00. ISBN: 9780197531464","authors":"Garth Stahl","doi":"10.1111/chso.12821","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12821","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth</i> by Derron Wallace is a provocative, cohesive and deeply engrossing monograph. It is a powerful—and at times confronting—story which makes an important contribution to the scholarship on ethnicity and education. The research is steeped deeply in history with a clear agenda for the future. Effortlessly blending historical facts, government policies, sociological theory and insightful vignettes, Wallace presents a nuanced analysis which compels the reader to reflect on the interplay between ‘culture’, race and academic outcomes. It presents a dynamic argument regarding the need for more cross-national studies which challenge assumptions regarding cultural conditions. At the heart of the book is the voice of Black Caribbean young people navigating various cultural constraints, as well as the overt and subtle ethnic expectations, present in their lifeworlds.</p><p>The monograph provides a critical overview of the key debates regarding the role ethnicity (and ethnic profiling), has played in the schooling of the Black Caribbean diaspora, as an ethno-racial group. The data presented draws from a longitudinal comparative ethnographic research study conducted in the United States and the United Kingdom. When I first began reading <i>The Culture Trap</i>, what struck me is how assiduous Wallace is at navigating the tricky terrain of analysing ethnicity and learner identities while interweaving the voices of young people, teachers and parents. As we are all aware, the ethnicization of educational achievement can often be a muddled picture. It remains a notably difficult area to theorise. For Wallace, this is not the case. Building on definitive work by Stuart Hall, John Ogbu, Signithia Fordham and others, Wallace astutely hones his critique building an exacting picture of culture and anti-racism in the lives of the Black Caribbean diaspora. As I read, I was drawn into a narrative which vacillated between key historical moments and powerful ethnographic details as Wallace builds an evocative case for why we must take a closer look at the lives of the Black Caribbean diaspora and their relationship to education.</p><p><i>Ethnic Expectations</i> centres around a key problematic: Black Caribbean students in the United States seemed to have quite different educational experiences than Black Caribbean students in the United Kingdom. What Wallace skilfully does is explore the phenomenon with an attention to culture(s)—the culture of schooling, racist societal cultural discourses, the culture of bigotry of low expectations in education, the culture present in Black supplementary schooling, the familial culture, etc. This is central to how he positions an argument where we must examine the situational contexts but also the cultural strategies Black Caribbean adopt to overcome structural disadvantage. Wallace defines this as the culture trap, an ‘alluring yet ensnaring set of logics","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 2","pages":"727-728"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12821","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138545151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Space, people, activity and time: A theoretical model for understanding children's outdoor play with specific reference to the historical protected central areas of Beijing, China","authors":"Pai Tang, Helen Woolley","doi":"10.1111/chso.12818","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12818","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Aiming to document children's daily outdoor play experiences in a rapidly developing urban environment, this research is based on a case study involving children living in the central Shichahai area in Beijing to provide an understanding from the scarce Chinese perspective. Based on the development of the SPIT model, this study proposes the SPAT model and investigates its subject from dimensions of space, people, activities and time. This study employs a qualitative triangulation approach to investigating childhood experience, using data collection methods including interviews, observations and diaries. This data record the children's outdoor play experience and its analysis addresses the lack of knowledge and understanding of childhood play experience in Chinese cities. The factors which have a profound influence on children's play experience in a developing urban contexts are discussed and interpreted in terms of a range of factors which have influenced the transformation of the urban environment, including economic development, policy implications and cultural traditions. Based on the insights from this evidence, this study offers recommendations that the SPAT model provides a mechanism for exploring children and their experiences of outdoor environments in different contexts which has a strong adaptation to various contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 5","pages":"1557-1578"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12818","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138624741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Han Haotian, Huang Jing, Jia Xinfeng, Zhang Jiantao, Guo Jianwei
{"title":"Evaluation of route choice for walking commutes to school and street space optimization in old urban areas of China based on a child-friendly orientation: The case of the Wuyi Park area in Zhengzhou","authors":"Han Haotian, Huang Jing, Jia Xinfeng, Zhang Jiantao, Guo Jianwei","doi":"10.1111/chso.12817","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12817","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Walking to school promotes the health of school-aged children. The safety and comfort of the walking environment are lacking in China due to the prioritization of motorized traffic. This paper focuses on the choice of walking routes for school-aged children commuting in old urban areas of China. A walking route choice model is constructed by combining a weighted Voronoi diagram and the closest facility analysis in ArcMap. The walking route choices of school-aged children from home to school and the flows along routes are analysed. Based on the model results, targeted design suggestions for updating existing street spaces are proposed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 5","pages":"1527-1556"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139203342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lisa Jones, Katie J. Parsons, Florence Halstead, Joshua M. Wolstenholme
{"title":"Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action","authors":"Lisa Jones, Katie J. Parsons, Florence Halstead, Joshua M. Wolstenholme","doi":"10.1111/chso.12819","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12819","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article offers new insights into the important role that transdisciplinary, participatory action research approaches offer young people as a safe space to ‘act’ on climate change and environmental degradation. Drawing upon methodological meta-reflections on three separate, but interlinked, projects (two UK-based, one in Vietnam), we highlight an evolving approach that fuses knowledge, local context and emotional connection to engage action. We argue that these innovative approaches facilitate the empowerment of young people to co-create and lead solutions, adaptations and mitigations that can make a significant impact on the climate and biodiversity crises whilst influencing policymakers and inspiring collaborative change-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 3","pages":"823-838"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138493766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emma Loudon, Joanne Neary, Ben McAteer, Kathryn Higgins, Christopher Chapman
{"title":"A causeway to impact: A proposed new integrated framework for intergenerational community-based participatory action research","authors":"Emma Loudon, Joanne Neary, Ben McAteer, Kathryn Higgins, Christopher Chapman","doi":"10.1111/chso.12815","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12815","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over recent decades there has been growing interest in amplifying children and young people's views (CYP) within policy debates. Despite this, they are rarely invited to participate in key policy-making discussions, and when they are, this tends to be tokenistic. This paper presents an intergenerational methodological framework ‘The Causeway Approach’, inspired by the mythology of the Giant's Causeway, which addresses the challenge of CYP's voices being drowned out by adult stakeholders. This contextualised approach has significant potential to benefit CYP and communities through capacity building, strengthening of social capital and fostering intergenerational connections.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 5","pages":"1493-1509"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12815","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138504760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kai Ting Mok, Serene En Hui Tung, Satvinder Kaur, Yit Siew Chin, Mohammad Yusoff Martini, Vaidehi Ulaganathan
{"title":"Children's perspectives on vegetable consumption and gardening: Outcomes from a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia","authors":"Kai Ting Mok, Serene En Hui Tung, Satvinder Kaur, Yit Siew Chin, Mohammad Yusoff Martini, Vaidehi Ulaganathan","doi":"10.1111/chso.12814","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12814","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Urban poor children have low vegetable consumption due to food insecurities leading to limited access to vegetables. Children's involvement in gardening may improve their vegetable consumption and connection with nature. This qualitative study explored the potential facilitators and barriers related to vegetable consumption and gardening among urban poor children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Four focus group discussions were conducted among 20 randomly selected children aged 9–12 years, residing in selected low-cost flats in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from November 2021 to January 2022. Thematic analysis via NVivo software was conducted to analyse the transcripts. Children reported several barriers to eating vegetables, such as disliking taste, sensory and appearance, limited accessibility and vegetable availability at home. Most children felt positive and interested to join gardening. The findings are useful in planning nutrition intervention programmes that incorporate gardening as one of the elements to improve vegetable consumption.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 5","pages":"1471-1492"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138504759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I don't know what is autism, what is normal teenage behaviour, and what is naughtiness’: Conceptualising child and adolescent to parent violence in the context of neurodevelopmental difference","authors":"Amanda Holt","doi":"10.1111/chso.12809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12809","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents findings from a UK-based qualitative study that explored parents/carers experiences of child to parent violence (CPV) from their child who has a neurodevelopmental difference. The study used semi-structured interviews with 15 mothers who were experiencing physical and psychological violence from their child, often on a daily basis. Findings show that parents struggled to make sense of the violence, often feeling conflicted between whether the violence was the result of their child's neurodevelopmental challenges, ‘normal’ teenage behaviour or, in some cases, their child's poor mental health. Parents also recognised the inappropriateness of common advice they were given to address CPV. The implications of these complex sense-making practices are discussed in relation to future research and practice.","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 36","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138504758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}