Educational Research and Innovation

Educational research and innovation, Journal Year: 2009, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Nov. 10, 2009

The nature of childhood and how we view children has changed tremendously in the 21st century.Cultural shifts, global mega trends technological developments have shifted what looks like types roles can do take modern societies.Children are no longer seen as passive beings need protection future citizens, but rather citizens today.They increasingly autonomous agents change who play important shaping current democracies.These changes beg question: does child empowerment mean today implications for OECD education systems well-being?The authors this report seek to answer question by exploring changing childhood, delving into some potential facilitators or barriers empowerment.They propose a definition empowerment, suggesting that empowered opportunity ability act on issues relevant them, learn making mistakes, key contributors democracy.This at various ways which support empowerment.This ranges from providing them with civic skills knowledge effectively participate democracy, supporting their social, emotional physical well-being, reducing inequalities threaten vulnerable marginalised groups.It children's lives, including they interact media digital environment, be used identity development, well-being self-expression new ways.By presenting state art literature, outlining examples promising policy practice countries, volume provides guidance insights work together range actors while helping realise rights.Child is recognised goal priority governments around OECD.Many countries taken effective steps realising goal.However still far go ensuring all future.WHAT DOES CHILD EMPOWERMENT MEAN TODAY?© 2024 Executive summaryEmpowering active participants society emerged critical aim agendas across OECD.Yet, achieving simple.Set against backdrop way understands role child, well opportunities challenges posed publication delves meaning explores its systems.By defining concepts examining valuable empowering children, amidst declining activity, increased stress anxiety, COVID-19, landscape persistent inequalities.This takes stock these broad themes often repeated rarely articulated call empower children.This centres it's analysis three core opportunities. Enhanced well-beingGood things happen when them.Child enhances self-esteem leadership skills, nurturing competent, confident members society.When done authentic crafting school policies practices, tend better suited contribute positively climates social cohesion. Better makingChild an essential educational within though it lacks clear implementation strategies.Giving greater empowers actively decisions contributing unique perspectives.Actively participating decision-making processes both age-appropriate supports personal development ensures societal practices reflect needs perspectives. 9WHAT Current conditions may hindering empowermentEmpowering only possible if makers directly, effectively, tackle number challenges.This requires more attention paid establishing sufficient baseline such health, literacy, access necessary resources.At present, activity levels among insufficient many experience increasing loneliness feelings anxiety.The environment offers wide arenas yet engagement activism, debate peer communities remains modest minority engaging behaviours.Part could related lack literacy distinguish fact opinion.This skill gap crucial because influences confidence content critically, make informed decisions, fundamental aspect empowerment.While platforms powerful tools engagement, not fully harnessed.Moreover, poorer regions lower socio-economic backgrounds face significant accessing also leveraging (often limited) seize managing risks harm. Addressing cultural systemic changeOECD been working hard years wealth research, interventions exists help, documented publication.However, navigating multifaceted shift mindsets those systems, perform children.Shifting responsibilities days than protection, met apprehension adults.Including stakeholders rethink might traditionally order avoid common pitfalls tokenism, manipulation, decoration simply recreating adult structures trying fit structures.Adapting societies schools engage stakeholders, ensure equitable representation, particularly disadvantaged groups, requiring uphold rights safety resource-intensive.It buy-in challenging get right.Structural schools, high staff turnover terms teachers leadership, further complicate goals children.Being educator easy task, high-quality professional opportunities.Greater systematic partnerships external help lighten load, instance provision consistent mental health support.Yet, between left up individual institutions.Schools require dedicated, system-wide mechanisms partnerships.Lastly, inequalities, influenced geographical factors, remain barrier, necessitating focused research equity inclusion comprehensive approach must transform emphasise address disparities, enhance support, expand efforts, thereby creating ecosystem where every thrive our shared future.Education part co-ordinated, whole-of-society promote inside out classroom.This means government meaningfully participation.This necessitates establishment (or strengthening) legislative frameworks, strategies evaluation mandate government.WHAT 2024Empowering exercise agency carefully balancing protect unacceptably risk allowing management strategies.This balance constantly shifting, over course gradually acquire independence autonomy caregivers.An optimal enables older develop healthy sense self-reliance freedom well, family, friends community harm too high.Crucially, source come others exercising agency.As Gottschalk Borhan (2023[4]) remind us, critique use term agency, due assumption much literature inherently positive problematic open manipulation.Sometimes different forms odds each other.Encouraging involvement parents countries.Additionally, leaders positioned actors.But, Burns (2020[3]) ask, whose voice counts views aligned?Having thought out, innovative collaborative models bring parents, communities, themselves most presented century, fullest, flourish change.WHAT Box 1.2. What mobilisation?Over past two decades diverse body understand increase evidence through intentional process known mobilisation.It evidence-informed contributes decision learning.Crucially, mobilisation about just disseminating findings via accessible communication channels.Although important, there now substantive showing fostering interaction building relationships people organisations, incentivising activating parts system evidence, required (OECD, 2022[9]).Social tool making.When deliberately structured, interactions colleagues organisations integrate activities stimulate learning.They block culture 2023[10]).A strong one it.This agreement questions mutual understanding, attitudes, dedicated time space individuals (Langer, Tripney Gough, 2016[11]).WHAT This chapter nature.It today, recognising holders acknowledging exercise.Childhood conceptualisations dynamic, broader shifts.With advancement dialogues, being included processes.This outlines affect participate.

Language: Английский

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Social media mindsets: a new approach to understanding social media use and psychological well-being

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 29(1)

Published: Nov. 8, 2023

Abstract Social media mindsets are the core beliefs that orient individuals’ expectations, behaviors, attributions, and goals about social media’s role in their lives. In four survey studies (N = 2,179), we show people hold distinct amount of agency they have over use (“in control” vs. “out control”) valence its effects (“enhancing” “harmful”) meaningfully related to psychological well-being. We develop apply Media Mindsets scale, revealing agentic, positive associated with better well-being low-agency, negative worse (Studies 1, 2a, 2b). Notably, these explained more variance relational distress than other measures (Study 3) were differences how used interpreted time spent on it 3 4). Our findings introduce a novel potential explanation for heterogeneous

Language: Английский

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Digital media as ambiguous goods: Examining the digital well-being experiences and disconnection practices of Belgian adults

European Journal of Communication, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 39(2), P. 122 - 144

Published: Oct. 11, 2023

Drawing from a cross-sectional survey ( N = 1000), this study examines (1) the extent to which Belgian adults experience digital well-being (i.e. perceive agency over and functional support use of media), (2) disconnection strategies they limit connectivity, (3) how their these relates well-being, (4) whether different user groups can be identified in terms experiences. We find evidence for ambivalence relationship towards media. Popular involve access restrictions. Those reporting less generally disconnect more. Lastly, typology based on respondents’ scores reveals four clusters indifferent, enthusiastic, ambivalent, sceptical media users that differ demographic, personality use/ownership characteristics. Collectively, gives insight into are distributed, lifting veil who might more susceptible struggling with constant connectivity.

Language: Английский

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Mobile Technology and Teens: Understanding the Changing Needs of Sociocultural and Technical Landscape

Published: April 23, 2025

Language: Английский

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Riding the short video wave: Sense of agency in motion among young users on Douyin

New Media & Society, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 20, 2025

This study examines how young Douyin users navigate algorithm-driven short video platforms, emphasizing their sense of agency (SoA) in shaping engagement strategies. Based on in-depth interviews with 25 users, we identified four statuses—High SoA Use, Low High Nonuse, and Nonuse—and two strategic transitions: Disengagement Reengagement. These transitions illustrate users’ reflective processes regarding past behaviors highlight deliberate efforts to regain control over platform use. Our findings reveal a complex interplay between user autonomy algorithmic influence, highlighting the psychological mechanisms underpinning user-driven adaptations. By exploring coping strategies, this positions as central fostering sustainable interactions platforms. advancing our understanding engagement, research emphasizes offers actionable insights into adaptations, digital wellness, literacy, suggesting value mindful social media

Language: Английский

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Can Social Media Use Be More Health-Promoting? Description and Pilot Evaluation of a School-Based Program to Increase Awareness and Reflection on the Use of Social Media

SAGE Open, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(2)

Published: April 1, 2024

Social media plays a significant role in adolescents’ lives, with both positive and negative effects. Implementing interventions to mitigate the aspects enhance ones could improve well-being. Unfortunately, there is scarcity of evidence-based available. To fill this gap, we have developed school-based program based on combining consensus-based approaches, incorporating input from adolescents, school personnel, researchers, municipal advisers. This paper describes program’s content principles, presents results pilot evaluation, which assesses feedback pupils teachers, thereby informing potential enhancements overall significance. The intervention description encompasses theoretical perspectives, behavior change techniques, procedural details. Pupils ( n = 266; 16+ years) evaluated concerning satisfaction, relevance, importance, usefulness through questionnaire. Additionally, exploratory focus group interviews were conducted seven teachers eleven gather their perspectives impact, changes theme-based teaching. Results showed an average score 7.3/10 for satisfaction program. Sub-questions assessing perceived engagement, averaged between 6.7 7.5. Gender differences observed, boys tending rate lower than girls. In interviews, expressed increasing awareness own others’ social use, that topic was important exciting, generally worked well. pupils’ evaluation indicates need kind described study.

Language: Английский

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Perceptions of people radicalised online: Examining the victim‐perpetrator nexus

Legal and Criminological Psychology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 26, 2025

Abstract Purpose This study explored the victim‐perpetrator nexus in context of cognitive online radicalisation. Specifically, we examined if a person's age and whether they were exposed to extremist content/users incidentally or following active search shape perceptions victimhood. We further assessed how victimhood support for distinct criminal justice responses. Methods conducted pre‐registered two‐factorial (age: young person, adult x exposure type: selection, incidental exposure) between‐subjects experiment ( N = 383), employing vignettes that depicted four scenarios Results The process by which person was materials/settings had no significant effect on However, people (as compared adults) who cognitively radicalised more readily considered victims. A higher level perceived victimhood, turn, associated with increased endorsement rehabilitation; levels not charges. Exploratory analyses highlighted (rather than strongly as victims, predicted elevated rehabilitation interventions. Young also attributed lower responsibility their engagement materials users online, related Conclusions Taken together, findings underscore one issue frame used make meaning phenomenon safeguarding applied respect people, reflecting nexus; criminalisation was, adopted when considering adults online.

Language: Английский

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Posting “what” on social media? The (mis-)use of Facebook by young people in refugee camps

Journal of Information Communication and Ethics in Society, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 17, 2024

Purpose This paper aims to shed light on the threats that young people living in refugee camps face their use of Facebook. While social media enable a participatory process communication (Russo et al., 2008), which is based agency communicator and defined by own cultural moral goals (Lee 2023), these platforms can at times be inappropriately pursued if lacks relevant skills. The outcome such pursuit also inadvertently damage cohesion camp lead conflict. Design/methodology/approach A total 17 semi-structured interviews were carried out 2023 with between ages 20 29 Kakuma camp. refugees asked questions related behaviour practices Facebook those peers. focus was specifically context interactions other youth camp’s groups or pages. Findings reveal limited knowledge, understanding awareness functioning affordances as are leading towards multiple risks involved public online interactions. has significant negative impacts not only lives who active but relationships peers overall community harmony. Originality/value number studies have identified some dangers arising for operating spaces, particularly (see, example, Tech Transparency Project, 2022; Dekker al. , 2018). Yet, there lack research outcomes immediate virtual physical environment result behaviour. To best author’s this study first bring nature dynamics young, encamped engage offer useful reflections inform digital literacy efforts development agencies.

Language: Английский

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