Other Children, Other Youth: Against Eurocentrism in Childhood and Youth Research

Liebel, Manfred; Budde, Rebecca

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“…However, this ambivalence postulates that the UNCRC is universally applicable irrespective of culture. As criticised by Liebel and Budde (2016), this assumption about the UNCRC is based on eurocentrism and is not even legitimate in European nations since there is phenomenological heterogeneity among children within them. By looking beyond the supposedly universal agenda of the UNCRC, our interview data indicate that participants' understanding of children's right to play reflects both the UNCRC and the Confucian discourses.…”

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When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play

Liu

2023

Childhood

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This study employs a poststructuralist theoretical framework to explore parents’ attitudes towards children’s right to play in Shanghai, China. It adopted mixed methods of online questionnaires ( N = 880) and semi-structured interviews ( N = 11). The findings suggest that participants struggle with embracing and practising children’s right to play as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), reflecting culturally-sensitive and -contextualised concerns around their children’s future success. Those concerns are connected with the hegemony of Confucianism in shaping educational values in Chinese education. In the context of globalisation, this paper points to the empowerment of parents in practising children’s rights to play in China.

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When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play

Liu

2023

Childhood

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“…The outcomes of these participatory processes are therefore twofold: on the one hand, they foster knowledge of a given phenomenon, and, on the other, they have direct repercussions on the lives of the participants and can create the conditions for change in the realities experienced. This methodological perspective has assumed progressive importance also in work with minors, as shown by the numerous international studies carried out "with" or "by" children instead of "on" children (Brownlie et al, 2006;Wilkinson, 2000;Laws, Mann, 2004;Liebel, 2008;Kellett, 2005).…”

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Empowering Migrant Youth through Participatory Approach in Social Work

Bertozzi

2019

Participatory Social Work: Research, Practice, Education

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Young immigrants have the greatest risk of exclusion in many European countries, due to educational inequalities, both in outcomes and opportunities, and to socio-economic family conditions. The paper proposes a reflection on two projects involving immigrant minors in Italy. The first is a participatory research project on child labour/work conducted with a group of working immigrant teenagers; the second is a tutoring project conducted with immigrant university students to support foreign students at risk of failure. Through participatory approaches, the two experiences read differently the child work and the school failure of the children of immigrants, highlighting the different perspectives with which the two issues can be analyzed and addressed. It shows the potential of participatory methods in offering different perspectives and in empowering young people, as well as the possible implications for social work. The results provide useful insights for working with immigrant subjects in other areas as well.

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Participatory Social Work: Research, Practice, Education

2019

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Participatory social work raises anew the issues of credibility of knowledge, processes of its creation and use, the purpose of social work, and its relationship to politics. It has given the impetus to the emergence of participatory research teams or, in the more radical viewpoints, to the gradual de-academization of both the empirical and theoretical aspects of social work. In this book we focus on raising controversial issues to encourage debate, reflection and discussion concerning participatory social work with a special attention given to participatory research. As a collective monograph prepared by an international team of researchers, it should help social workers, social pedagogues, politicians, sociologists, policy makers, social activists, etc. from different geographic and socio-cultural contexts to develop critical reflection on implications and consequences of doing their research, practice and teaching in participatory ways. “The book is the result of a longer discussion about Participatory Action Research (PAR) in different contexts. This book focuses on methodological and practical experiences of PAR in a more radical perspective. Not only opportunities but also pitfalls and challenges are worked out.”

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Other Children, Other Youth: Against Eurocentrism in Childhood and Youth Research

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play

When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play

Empowering Migrant Youth through Participatory Approach in Social Work

Participatory Social Work: Research, Practice, Education

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