Children’s agency in interprofessional collaboration

Partnerships with children in child welfare: The importance of trust and pedagogical support

“…When relationships with professionals are characterized by trust and understanding, they seem to promote children's participation in CWS (Bolin, 2014;Dillon, Greenop, & Hills, 2016). A literature review by Gallagher, Smith, Hardy, and Wilkinson (2012) concluded that trust and respect, adequate information, and an appropriate degree of support were the factors that favoured children's participation.…”

Agency and its Constraints among Biological Children of Foster Carers

“…This directly challenges traditional views of children as passive recipients of the social structures and processes in which they are situated (Bühler-Niederberger & Schwittek, 2014). The interactive nature of relationships, and the ability to produce change in their environments, have been seen as important markers of agency by childhood theorists (Bolin, 2015;Mayall, 2002).…”

Childhoods in Policy: A Critical Analysis of National Child Protection Policy in the Philippines

“…Arising from understandings of the constructed nature of childhoods, children are now broadly regarded as ‘subjects’, rather than ‘objects’, in a shift away from traditional views of children as incapable, vulnerable or irrational (Trinder, ). Studies reveal that children are active social agents (examples include; Bolin, ; Buhler‐Niederberger and Schwittek, ; Roche and Noble‐Carr, ), whose capacity and value does not emerge out of biological growth, but via their social experiences and interactions, as well as their views and perspectives, which are critical in the formulation of social institutions of schools, families, communities and legal systems (Neale, ). To understand children and childhoods, Prout and James () argue that children should be viewed as ‘agentic’, actively involved in the construction of their own social lives, the lives around them and the societies in which they live.…”