The Sociology Of Childhood In Relation To Children’s Rights

Mayall, Berry

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004190498.i-527.120

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“…Several scholars (Freeman 1998;Mayall 2000Mayall , 2003Alanen 2010) have pointed out that the two fields -the sociology of childhood and children's rights -can complement each other. Freeman argues that sociology of childhood research and research into children's rights have overlapping interests and, to some extent, visions.…”

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“…Sociologists of childhood have further shown how perceptions of the child as a natural phenomenon work to de-politicise childhood (for example, Mayall 2000Mayall , 2002. Childhood becomes a place governed by biologically determined development that is unaffected by policy and inhabited by prepeople.…”

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“…Childhood becomes a place governed by biologically determined development that is unaffected by policy and inhabited by prepeople. Mayall (2000) underlines that, on the contrary, childhood is a political issue. Ideas about what children need, how they develop and what kind of input is appropriate from adults have all derived from adult social, economic and cultural structures and deliberations, and are indeed political.…”

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“…A central tenet of childhood sociology is therefore that childhood is a social construction and has to be discussed as such. One consequence of such a standpoint is recognising the extent to which the view of children and childhood varies, where children have to be regarded and studied as a social group with power-laden relations to other social groups, and childhood has to be examined as a social phenomenon, constructed within a particular society and time (Qvortrup et al 1994;Mayall 2000;James and James 2004). Also, by placing childhood in a political, social and historical context, childhood sociology has drawn attention to the political element in childhood.…”

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Researching children’s rights in education: sociology of childhood encountering educational theory

Quennerstedt

2013

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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This paper aims to explore and develop a theoretical approach for children's rights research in education formed through an encounter between the sociology of childhood and John Dewey's educational theory. The interest is mainly methodological, in the sense that the primary ambition of the investigation is to suggest a fruitful and useful theoretical base for formulating research problems and undertaking research in children's rights in education. The paper argues that, particularly in educational settings, research into children's rights can and must be attributed to children both as full-status humans in a socio-politically contextual present, and as continually growing and changing, immature and dependent humans. From the theoretical encounter suggested in the paper, the much-used distinction of the child as either 'being' or 'becoming' can be reconsidered, and another point of departure for the study of children's rights issues in education can be discerned.

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Section: Background and Contextualisationmentioning

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Section: Background and Contextualisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Background and Contextualisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Background and Contextualisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2013

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“…Also, critical childhood studies are often concerned with improving childhoods (Mayall 2000;Prout, 2003;Rayner 2003;Holt 2004). By contrast, de Certeau's approach to the social order is useful when the research interest is in understanding childhood and children's politics on their own terms.…”

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The body as a battlefield: approaching children's politics

Kallio

2008

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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This article discusses the active role of children in everyday politics. Distinct from empowerment, it is suggested that children can be political on their own terms. The article focuses on revealing the social production of childhood, which takes place in the confrontation between child policy and children's own politics. Children's bodies are found to be both the main focus of policy practices and a central avenue of children's own agency. Hence, children are understood to be not only objects of policy, but also embodied political subjects. Using the example of Finnish child evacuees’ experiences during the Second World War, it is shown that, despite their positions in policy fields, children do act as political selves. Using the ideas of Michel de Certeau and Carl Schmitt, it is argued that there is an autonomous politics to children which can be recognized as a significant means of coping in their everyday lives. On these grounds, the article sets out to use Pierre Bourdieu's concept of political struggle in considering childhood spatialities in more detail. Overall, children's politics are understood as a wider geographical concept which requires further examination.

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‘In Earlier Days Everyone Could Discipline Children, Now They Have Rights’: Caregiving Dilemmas of Guidance and Control in Urban Tanzania

Frankenberg

Holmqvist

Rubenson

2013

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Caregiving practices in Tanzania are potentially affected by socio‐demographic change such as urbanization and globalization. The aim of this study is to explore adult caregivers' discourses regarding the responsibility of caregiving, related to guidance and control of children in Tanzania. Data was collected in focus group discussions with parents and grandparents in an urban area of Tanzania. The analysis found two interpretative repertoires: guidance and control as a community matter and guidance and control as a family matter. These repertoires are related to responsibility and to an ideological dilemma regarding parental authority and individual's rights. The findings are discussed in relation to the tendency to polarize between ideologically traditional versus modern societies. This illustrates how lived ideology of caregiving responsibility is historically and socially situated, in the local context and how the spread of Children's Rights ideology needs to be understood in this context. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The Sociology Of Childhood In Relation To Children’s Rights

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Researching children’s rights in education: sociology of childhood encountering educational theory

Researching children’s rights in education: sociology of childhood encountering educational theory

The body as a battlefield: approaching children's politics

‘In Earlier Days Everyone Could Discipline Children, Now They Have Rights’: Caregiving Dilemmas of Guidance and Control in Urban Tanzania

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