‘Managing doubts’ to take safeguarding action

Needham, Martin

doi:10.4324/9780429507397-8

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“…This both demonstrates the force of dominant discourses in preventing alternative conceptualisations and how the dissenting voices of CS have, as yet, been unable to shape everyday thinking about and of children and negative stereotypes abound. Among adults, children continue to be seen as untrustworthy, (Needham, 2021) and a burden on society that will ‘eat us out of house and home’ (Young‐Bruehl, 2012). Working with children is seen as akin to working with animals, and working with young people a ‘nightmare’ that only a saint could tolerate (Conradie & Golding, 2013).…”

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Who do you think you are? Children's definitions of being a ‘child’

Bacon

O'Riordan

2023

Children & Society

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We asked 92 children in North West England, aged 2-17, if they were children and what it meant to be a child. Our findings show that not all children think they are a 'child'. Although different age groups defined 'childness' in different ways, children reproduced normative Western discourses of childhood, including ideas which subordinate them. The children in our study seemed unable to articulate their capabilities and contributions. We argue that children and adults need to co-produce positive definitions of childness to facilitate adult acceptance of children's participation in society and continue the struggle against adultism.

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