Children’s Moral Agency: An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review

Montreuil, Michèle; Noronha, Crystal; Floriani, Nadia; Carnevale, Franco A.

doi:10.18357/jcs.v43i2.18575

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“…This definition entails that multiple forms of expression can be used to speak for oneself, including speech and bodily expressions, and that the capacity of children to enact agency is not dependent on adults as facilitators of agency’ (Montreuil & Carnevale, 2015). Moreover, our scoping review of moral agency across childhood‐related disciplines demonstrated that developmental psychology perspectives dominate this literature (Montreuil, Floriani, Noronha, & Carnevale, 2018). Other less‐prevalent themes regarded moral agency as (a) active in children; (b) absent in children; (c) a competence influenced by context and (d) a narrative construction.…”

Section: A New Ontology Of Young Peoplementioning

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Childhood Ethics: An ontological advancement for childhood studies

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We describe an ontological approach to childhood studies that we refer to as Childhood Ethics. This involves an interdisciplinary hermeneutic orientation towards examining the morally meaningful dimensions of matters that affect young people. We draw on our empirical research with young people from 3‐ to 17‐years old, examining their experiences in a diversity of contexts and geographical settings. Our investigations challenge dominant binary conceptions of young people along lines of decisional in/capacity and im/maturity. We argue for a view of children as active agents with meaningful relational engagements and participation interests and capacities and outline corresponding implications for research and practice.

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“…Development is always socially contextual. However, these transactional conceptions of children's development are largely absent from the dominant conceptions of children and childhood in literature within the various child‐focused professions (AAP, 1995; Coughlin, 2018; Montreuil, Floriani, et al, 2018).…”

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“…Numerous childhood studies scholars have critiqued dominant conceptions of childhood that have been rooted in universalized stage-based developmental conceptions of childhood (Esser et al, 2016;Greene & Hogan, 2005;James et al, 1998;James & Prout, 1997;Lee, 2001;Prout, 2000;Qvortrup, 2005). These have perpetuated approaches to children as immature and incapable of meaningful engagement in matters that affect them and others, favoring strategies that "control" their behaviors, "educate" them, and "protect" them until they have autonomous decisional capacity (Hogan, 2005;Montreuil, Floriani, et al, 2018). More current child development research has advanced transactional models that characterize development as a bidirectional interplay between children and their social environments (Burman, 2017;Sameroff, 2009)highlighting that development is rooted in social contexts.…”

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A “Thick” Conception of Children’s Voices: A Hermeneutical Framework for Childhood Research

Carnevale

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International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“Listening to children’s voices” can help foster respectful regard for their experiences and concerns and promote the recognition of children as active agents; that is, persons who have interests and capacities to participate in discussions and decisions that affect them and other people. However, “listening to children’s voices” can have many different forms, and the ways that these voices should be linked to children’s agency can be unclear. I outline several common misconceptions that can impede “listening to children’s voices” as forms of epistemological oppression. I argue for a thick conception of children’s voices, recognizing that children’s expressions are relationally embedded expressions of their agency. Understanding children’s voices and experiences requires hermeneutical approaches that can help discern what is meaningful for a child in a particular situation. I discuss ontological, epistemological, and methodological shifts that are required for hermeneutical inquiry with children and outline specific methods that can be used, oriented by guiding questions. This hermeneutical methodology can help advance our understanding of children’s experiences as well as their aspirations and concerns in research and in professional practice.

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“…Brazilian nursing research has shown that these children and their families are living in vulnerable conditions which create barriers to health-care services and decrease their quality of care and life (4) . These vulnerable conditions lead to significant ethical concerns such as health inequities and discrimination, inadequate public policies, and exclusion of children from decisions that affect them (4,5) .…”

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A scoping review of the moral experiences of children with medical complexity in Brazil

2020

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Objectives: The aim of this review was to identify and summarize how the moral experiences of children with medical complexity are being expressed within the Brazilian health-related literature and discuss research gaps and directions for future research. Methods: A scoping review was performed using the methodological framework of Arksey and O’Malley and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). Systematic searches were conducted on Medline, CINAHL, Scopus, and Embase databases. Articles were included if using qualitative methodologies, having children as participants, and published in Brazil. Results: In total, 6,360 articles were retrieved from databases. Sixteen studies were selected for the analysis. Final considerations: The studies were not primarily focused on children’s moral experiences. Yet, the studies demonstrate morally relevant accounts concerning children’s capacity to reason and interpret their lived experiences, expressing deep concerns about isolation, suffering, future aspirations, and feelings of normality.

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Children’s Moral Agency: An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review

Cited by 18 publications

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Childhood Ethics: An ontological advancement for childhood studies

Childhood Ethics: An ontological advancement for childhood studies

A “Thick” Conception of Children’s Voices: A Hermeneutical Framework for Childhood Research

A scoping review of the moral experiences of children with medical complexity in Brazil

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