Children & SocietyPub Date : 2026-03-02Epub Date: 2024-11-22DOI: 10.1111/chso.12926
Hoa Pham, Marek Tesar
{"title":"Video-Making in English Language Learning: A Kaleidoscope to Understand the Vietnamese Child's Self-Authoring at Home","authors":"Hoa Pham, Marek Tesar","doi":"10.1111/chso.12926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12926","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Từ góc nhìn lý thuyết của Bakhtin, quá trình xây dựng bản sắc cá nhân của trẻ em là một quá trình liên tục, trong đó trẻ tìm cách diễn giải những thông tin và kinh nghiệm thu nhận được từ thế giới bên ngoài và tích hợp chúng vào suy nghĩ của mình để phát triển kiến thức mới về bản thân, con người, địa điểm và sự vật. Bài báo này nêu bật trường hợp của Nhi, một bé gái Việt Nam năm tuổi, đã tự sáng tạo bản thân thông qua việc sáng tạo và tự quay các video nói tiếng Anh tại nhà. Các video tiếng Anh của Nhi được thu thập thông qua quan sát sâu và được phân tích trong một chuỗi liên kết với các câu chuyện trò trước và sau đó. Hai chuỗi câu chuyện từ các video và các câu chuyện của Nhi đã được chọn để minh họa cách việc sáng tạo video tiếng Anh đã mở ra một không gian đa dạng, giúp trẻ tiếp tục đối thoại với người khác và phát triển ý tưởng về bản thân. Nghiên cứu nhấn mạnh vai trò của trẻ như một người kiến tạo ý nghĩa tích cực và có năng lực trong việc sáng tạo video và học tiếng Anh, đồng thời nhấn mạnh sự cần thiết phải xây dựng sự gắn kết cho người lớn để hiểu và hợp tác với trẻ em trong kỷ nguyên (hậu) kĩ thuật số.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"40 2","pages":"359-368"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147567889","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}
Children & SocietyPub Date : 2026-03-02Epub Date: 2024-12-05DOI: 10.1111/chso.12927
Sabina Savadova, Lydia Plowman
{"title":"Social and Cultural Influences on Parental Mediation of Digital Media Use in Azerbaijan","authors":"Sabina Savadova, Lydia Plowman","doi":"10.1111/chso.12927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12927","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report on influences on Azerbaijani families' parental mediation strategies for managing young children's digital practices at home. Data were gathered with five families in 2019 and 2023 using the Living Journals approach. Both fathers and mothers revealed the influences of gender and cultural norms on parental mediation. Fathers held legislative power by making decisions about rules; mothers exercised executive power by implementing those rules but found the process of mediation to be in tension with their desire to be accepted as a ‘good mother’. The study revealed social and cultural influences on parents' mediation strategies that differ from those identified in countries in the Global North.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"40 2","pages":"301-311"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12927","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563189","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":"Unpacking the Discourse of Child Marriage in Indonesia: A Decolonial Perspective","authors":"Vina Adriany, Nelis Nazziatus Sadiah Qosyasih, Elly Malihah","doi":"10.1111/chso.13013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.13013","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article unpacks the notion of child marriage by exploring the meaning of coercion, sexuality, and agency. In many countries in the Global South, such as Indonesia, child marriage attracts attention from international agencies. The paradigm adopted positions girls as victims and sites for intervention. The research was conducted in a small village in Indonesia. Six people aged 17 to 35 years participated in this study. All of them were married before they turned 18. Two of them are male and four are female. Using feminist post-structural and decolonial theories, the findings show how children’s choices to get married early are always situated within their agency and constrained by social factors such as poverty, low access to education, and religion. Therefore, the study invites policymakers and international donor organisations to go beyond the neoliberal understanding in their attempt to halt child marriage.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"89-98"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145891503","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":"Governance, Migration and Educational Rights: A Policy Analysis of Migrant Children's Educational Access in Sichuan, China","authors":"Xiwei Huang","doi":"10.1111/chso.12996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12996","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines how provincial-level policy innovation in China is reshaping educational access for migrant children, focusing on Sichuan's 2024 Implementation Plan for Strengthening the Care and Protection of Migrant Children. Rather than viewing the 2024 Plan in isolation, the analysis locates it within the evolving trajectory of China's <i>hukou</i> household registration reform and rural–urban labour migration. By tracing the link between national policy changes and demographic responses, it highlights how macro-level reforms created new conditions for local policy experimentation. It analyses both the Plan's emergence and its structural components. The plan is interpreted as a locally grounded effort to integrate previously disjointed services into a coordinated system, shaped by both top-down directives and local problem-solving. This case illustrates how provincial initiatives can function as adaptive strategies to national policy shifts, yet remain embedded in structural and legal constraints. The paper further reflects on the challenges of applying Western-derived policy frameworks in non-Western contexts. Drawing on comparative scholarship in postcolonial political theory, it calls for more contextually attuned approaches—ones that recognise the distinctive logic of Chinese governance, rather than evaluating it through universalist assumptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 6","pages":"1162-1171"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12996","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145271766","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":"No Hiding Places—A Review of Representations of Children's Right to Play in Schoolyards Across Wider Irish Educational Policies and Guidelines","authors":"Michelle Bergin","doi":"10.1111/chso.12995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12995","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child's emphasis on the major role of schools in providing for children's right to play, restrictions on children's play during breaktimes in schoolyards persist. A policy void has been highlighted in research examining the diverse interrelated nature of constraints on play rights in the unique context of schoolyard spaces. This research emphasises both the importance and limitations of policies and the need for further interrogation of broader educational policies as tools of influence in relation to play rights. This paper provides an exemplar of a critical review of national educational policies relevant to children's play in schoolyards in Ireland. The three-step review identified, extracted and charted representations of play during breaktimes in schoolyards from 24 legislative, policy and guidance documents. Lefebvre's (1991) theory of the production of social space informed the final analysis, focusing on the <i>abstract representations of play</i> in schoolyards, generating two themes: 1. No space for play—the prioritisation of supervision, safety and outdoor learning in representations of breaktimes in schoolyards and 2. Incongruence between inclusion rhetoric and a neglect of play rights. This review offers recommendations to progress the realisation of play rights in the Irish school context. It also contributes to contemporary scholarship on children's rights, highlighting the insights gained from examining the dominant ideas influencing priorities and regulating provision for play rights across educational policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 6","pages":"1152-1161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12995","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145272858","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":"RETRACTION: Behavioural Activation and Inhibition Systems of Fathers, Child Abuse and Childhood Psychopathology: The Mediating Role of Demographics","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/chso.12988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12988","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>RETRACTION:</b> M. R. Bougar, S. H. M. Babaheydari, S. Khodarahimi, N. Mazraeh, and M. Sadeghi, “Behavioural Activation and Inhibition Systems of Fathers, Child Abuse and Childhood Psychopathology: The Mediating Role of Demographics,” <i>Children & Society</i> (Early View): https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12929.</p><p>The above article, published online on 26 November 2024 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editors, Liam Berriman, Deevia Bhana, Sarah Crafter, Martin Robb and Yuwei Xu; Wendy Sims-Schouten, chair of the Editorial Board; the National Children's Bureau; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to unreliable conclusions and ethical concerns about the study.</p><p>Shortly after publication, the editorial office identified problems regarding the ethical approval and safeguarding practices underlying the study. Concerns were raised about the age and vulnerabilities of the minors involved in the study, the ethical appropriateness of a questionnaire on experiences of paternal abuse, the lack of consideration around age-appropriate practices of informed consent, and general absence of safeguarding and trauma-informed practice in the study's design and implementation.</p><p>In a subsequent research integrity investigation, original data provided by the authors was incomplete and was inconsistent with the published results. Based on these inconsistencies, the results presented in this manuscript are considered unreliable. The ethics approval statement, which was obtained retrospectively by the authors, is also considered to be insufficient.</p><p>Overall, the editorial office express deep concerns over this research involving minors, the corresponding study approval process, and how consent for participation by legal guardians was obtained. This practice described in this article is considered a violation of our expectations regarding the well-being and safeguarding of vulnerable children and constitutes unethical research.</p><p>The authors disagree with the decision to retract.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12988","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814599","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":"Children as Social Butterflies: Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss KindergartenBy Ursina Jaeger, New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey, London and Oxford: Rutgers University Press, 2025. ISBN: 978-1-9788-3698-3","authors":"Lynn J. McNair","doi":"10.1111/chso.12986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12986","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":"1014-1015"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814985","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":"Teenage Intimacies: Young Women, Sex and Social Life in England 1950–80. By Hannah Charnock, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025. 294 pp. £85 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-52-617315-7","authors":"Rachel Thomson","doi":"10.1111/chso.12989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12989","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":"1018-1019"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814984","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 Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature. By Amanda M. Greenwell, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2024. 201 pp. $30.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-49-685455-1","authors":"Rudrani Sarma","doi":"10.1111/chso.12985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12985","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":"1016-1017"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814628","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}