Children’s participation and intergenerational dialogue: Bringing adults back into the analysis

Wyness, Michael

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“…He states that children will never be seen as fully social citizens until human rights are transformed to encompass both adults and children, thus bridging the divide between adults and children in this respect. Related to this is Wyness's (2013) argument that too much focus on children's rights has led to a point where adults' roles related to children's participation are marginalised in research. He asks that more emphasis be placed on the interdependent relations between adults and children in relation to children's participation.…”

Section: Participation Rights and (Power) Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Playing a part in preschool documentation : A study of how participation is enacted in preschool documentation practices and how it is affected by material agents

Pettersson

2013

Linkoping Studies in Pedagogic Practices

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The aim of the present study is to explore how children’s participation is constructed and enacted in preschool documentation and what kinds of activities evolve between teachers, children and material objects in preschool documentation practices. The study is based on videorecorded observations of teachers and children documenting different preschool activities in two preschool groups. The video observations are analysed using theoretical perspectives on power relations, governmentality, documentality and agentic realism. The results are presented in two research articles. The results show the complexity of children’s participation in preschool documentation practice. In the first article two different documentation methods, with different theoretical underpinnings, were used in the preschool: portfolio and pedagogical documentation. The results show that, regardless of documentation method, children’s participation varied from attendance to involvement and influence, which can be seen as two ends of a power relation. Power relations between teachers and children also varied between situations as well as within individual situations. The result of the second article shows that children’s participation in preschool documentation practices, as well as the documentation itself, was affected and controlled not only by the humans present, but also by different material agents, such as photos and colour-coded labels. Taking material agents into account allows for a broader understanding of documentation practices, which in turn could open up for new forms of children’s participation in preschool documentation.Syftet med studien som utgör grunden för uppsatsen var att undersöka hur barns delaktighet i förskolans dokumentation är konstruerad och ”görs” och vilken typ av aktivitet som utvecklas mellan lärare, barn och materiella objekt inom förskolans dokumentationspraktik. Studien är baserad på videoinspelade observationer av lärare och barn som dokumenterar olika aktiviteter i förskolan på två förskoleavdelningar. Videoobservationerna analyserades med hjälp av teoretiska perspektiv på maktrelationer, governmentality, documentality och agentic realism. Resultatet presenteras i två vetenskapliga artiklar. Resultaten visar komplexiteten i barns delaktighet i förskolans dokumentationspraktik. I den första artikeln studerades användningen av två olika dokumentationsmetoder, med olika teoretiska underbyggnad, nämligen portfolio och pedagogisk dokumentation. Resultatet visar att barns delaktighet varierade från deltagande till medverkan och inflytande oavsett vilken dokumentationsmetod som användes. Detta kan ses som två ändpunkter av en maktrelation. Maktrelationer mellan lärare och barn varierade också mellan situationer och inom en situation. Resultatet av den andra artikeln visar att barns deltagande i förskolans dokumentationspraktik samt också dokumentationen i sig, påverkades och styrdes, inte enbart av de deltagande personerna, men också av olika materiella agenter, till exempel foton och färgade etiketter. Att även b...

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Section: Participation Rights and (Power) Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Playing a part in preschool documentation : A study of how participation is enacted in preschool documentation practices and how it is affected by material agents

Pettersson

2013

Linkoping Studies in Pedagogic Practices

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“…However, as illustrated (Figure 1), in CS3 Survivors made suggestions about the initial aims of the child welfare tour which were then implemented. As childhood is a social position broadly associated with limited access to resource holding, social esteem and social support for participation, the predominant exclusions of children and young people from these initial decisions reconfirms their generational position (Alanen, 2009;Wyness 2013.) CS3 shows that local practices can overcome this constraint.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Existing research on children's participation has identified the need to think relationally (Mannion, 2007;Wyness, 2013). Our relational analytical frame therefore draws on Alanen's (2009) argument that exploring intergenerational relations requires consideration of the practices through which actors mobilise resources and the intersection of generation and other structures.…”

Section: The Research Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The 'messy, fraught and ambiguous' (Gallagher, 2008, p. 404) process of children's participation occurs through interdependent and intergenerational networks of connection between a variety of actors (Mannion, 2007;Bjerke, 2011) through which different aspects of influence and agency are enabled and constrained (Wyness, 2013). Analysing participation means exploring adults' roles as well as those of children (ibid).…”

Section: Children and Young People's Collective Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A lattice of participation: reflecting on examples of children's and young people's collective engagement in influencing social welfare policies and practices

Larkins

Kiili

Palsanen³

2014

European Journal of Social Work

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“…There is consensus that inclusion of children and young people's voice improves decision-making, creates better policy and services, and enhances democratic processes (Ahsan, 2009;Head, 2011;Lansdown, 2005;Wyness, 2012). Various patterns of children's participation are evident in public policymaking with Shier et al (2014) outlining that, in the case of children and young people influencing public policy, 'influence' occurs in many ways, such as:…”

Section: Consultation As Child Participation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Consultations with Children and Young People and Their Impact on Policy in Ireland

Horgan

2017

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This article will examine the participatory structures for consulting with children in Ireland. It provides a background with reference to the National Strategy on Children and Young People's Participation in Decision-making (Department of Children and Youth Affairs, 2015)-the first of its kind in Europe-its key objectives, and recent progress in meeting these. Examples of two consultations with children, on health and afterschool care, and their impact on policy, will be discussed. The potential for consultations of this kind to influence and child-proof policy will be reflected on; the argument in this article is that there are different levels of participation for different purposes. The author worked with colleagues on two national consultations in 2015 and 2016 involving children between 5 to 17 years of age utilising a variety of child-centred activities. The methods are strengths-based consultative approaches that allow children to identify and explore issues based on what they know and experience in their everyday lives. Initial reflections indicate that consultations with children can be an important and challenging tool in accessing their views on policy issues of importance to them which help to child-proof policy and ensure it is in the best interests of children.

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Children’s participation and intergenerational dialogue: Bringing adults back into the analysis

Cited by 175 publications

References 31 publications

Playing a part in preschool documentation : A study of how participation is enacted in preschool documentation practices and how it is affected by material agents

Playing a part in preschool documentation : A study of how participation is enacted in preschool documentation practices and how it is affected by material agents

A lattice of participation: reflecting on examples of children's and young people's collective engagement in influencing social welfare policies and practices

Consultations with Children and Young People and Their Impact on Policy in Ireland

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