The COVID‐School and Social Responsibility: Creative Expressions of Children's Rights and Agency in Iceland During the Pandemic

Children & Society, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 25, 2025

ABSTRACT This study examines children's experiences in Iceland during the COVID‐19 pandemic through their creative expressions submitted to Ombudsman for Children. Analysing 454 submissions, including narratives, drawings and videos from children aged 6–16, research identified two main themes: ‘COVID‐School’ addressing educational disruptions peer relationships, ‘Social responsibility’ reflecting engagement with health measures. Using Spray's framework of embodied, social public child dimensions, reveals how navigated restrictions while demonstrating remarkable literacy consciousness. The findings emphasise agency importance perspectives crisis responses.

Language: Английский

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Are We Ready to Really Hear the Voices of Those Concerned? Lessons Learned from Listening to and Involving Children in Child and Family Psychology Research

Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 26(4), P. 994 - 1007

Published: Sept. 12, 2023

A changing view of children, accelerated by the Convention Rights Child (UN in on rights child, UN Doc. A/RES/44/25, 1989, http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/crc.pdf ) has shifted landscape child and family research over last few decades. Once viewed with low credibility operating outside interpretive framework adult researchers, rights-bearing is increasingly recognized not only as having capacity but also right to participate research. More recently, this movement transitioned from direct engagement children participants-now considered commonplace, although less so for those who are structurally vulnerable-to involvement design, review, conduct, dissemination. Yet, both practical ethical challenges remain. While have participation, they protection. In commentary, we set out to: (i) lay forth epistemic, rights, sociology arguments doing about, youth; (ii) recount our own journey including youth demonstrate unique knowledge insights gained through these approaches; (iii) offer lessons learned how engage research, vulnerable groups.

Language: Английский

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Child Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Child Health-and-Rights Professionals across the World

Children, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 10(10), P. 1670 - 1670

Published: Oct. 9, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of a child rights-based approach to policymaking and crisis management. Anchored in United Nations Convention on Rights Child, 3P framework—provision, protection, participation—forms foundation for health professionals advocating children’s rights. Expanding it with two additional domains—preparation power—into 5P framework has potential enhance policies times future pandemics. study aimed (1) gather perspectives from health-and-rights specialists how rights were highlighted during early phase their respective settings; (2) evaluate usefulness assessing visibility A qualitative survey was distributed among professionals; total 68 responses analysed Atlas.ti 9 multi-disciplinary group policymakers front-line eight world regions. As framed by 5Ps, generally not safeguarded initial response negatively impacted wellbeing. Further, children lacked meaningful opportunities raise concerns policymakers. holds shape an ethical decision-making crises, both nationally globally.

Language: Английский

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Zijn we klaar om te luisteren naar de stem van degenen om wie het gaat? Wat we geleerd hebben van het luisteren naar- en betrekken van kinderen bij psychologisch onderzoek met kinderen en gezinnen

Gezinstherapie Wereldwijd, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 35(4), P. 394 - 418

Published: Oct. 23, 2024

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