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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Bullying before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Current Opinion in Psychology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 53, P. 101689 - 101689

Published: Sept. 9, 2023

Language: Английский

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Adolescent Aggression: A Narrative Review on the Potential Impact of Violent Video Games

Deleted Journal, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 7(1), P. 12 - 12

Published: Feb. 18, 2025

Background: Exposure to violent content through video games can shape perceptions of aggression as normative or acceptable, potentially desensitizing adolescents violence and increasing the likelihood that they will engage in aggressive behavior their real-world interactions. This narrative review examines relationship between (VVGs) youth aggression, addressing (i) VVG exposure lens Social Learning Theory General Aggression Model; (ii) biological determinants behavior, including neurophysiological correlates potential modulatory role gut microbiome; (iii) current evidence on influence adolescent aggression. Results: may promote moral disengagement reinforce rewarding actions, leading real-life VVGs increases by elevating cortisol levels, activating sympathetic nervous system, stimulating brain’s reward disrupting neurotransmitter balance. Alterations microbiome composition could occur a result engaging VVGs, mirroring physiological responses observed activities. The among has been widely explored, with studies generally indicating lead desensitization violence, reduced empathy, diminished prosocial behavior. have also linked both bullying perpetration victimization dynamics adolescents, contributing mental health issues, which turn exacerbate problematic gaming behaviors. Conclusions: While there is suggesting associated increased discrepancies literature highlight need for further research aimed at improving our understanding this phenomenon. topic reveal significant limitations, predominance cross-sectional designs, methodological shortcomings, small sample sizes, challenges generalizing results. Factors such developmental stages participants, exclusion females, unmeasured variables during long follow-up periods complicate interpretations. Moreover, parental responsibility effectiveness age ratings require closer examination.

Language: Английский

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Peer victimization and anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic: disentangling between and within person effects

Social Psychology of Education, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 28(1)

Published: March 14, 2025

Language: Английский

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COVID-19 School Closures and Peer Violence in Adolescents in 42 Countries: Evidence from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study

International Journal of Bullying Prevention, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 21, 2025

Language: Английский

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The Relationship Between Bullying and Risk of Suicide Among Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

Journal of korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 35(1), P. 75 - 81

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Objectives: Although adolescents appear less vulnerable to coronavirus disease , the side effects of this pandemic can still be devastating.Bullying and suicidality are significant global issues with detrimental on young people, particularly during school closure.This study aimed identify relationship between bullying suicide risk among in Indonesia CO-VID-19 pandemic.Methods: A cross-sectional was conducted aged 14-18 years May 2020 Bandung, Indonesia, using a webbased closed survey.The Adolescent Peer Relations Instrument Suicide Behavior Questionnaire-Revised were used measure suicide.Multinomial logistic regression analysis performed.Results: This included 268 participants 175 2019.In 2020, prevalence perpetrators victims combined 74.6%.Meanwhile, 2019, 82.9%.Risk increased from 26.1% 2019 (before COVID-19 pandemic) 36.5% (during first wave pandemic).The higher than that alone (odds ratio [OR]=4.0,95% confidence interval [CI]=1.5-6.6 vs. OR=1.3,95% CI=1.0-2.9 OR=1.6, 95% CI=1.1-2.8, respectively).Conclusion: Bullying enhance likelihood highest for combination perpetrators.It is very important provide early prediction youths behavior improve knowledge understanding families schools regarding negative behavior.

Language: Английский

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Bullying victimization and mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 3

Published: May 22, 2024

Bullying victimization is associated with numerous mental health difficulties yet studies from early in the COVID-19 pandemic revealed significant decreases bullying but increases for many children and adolescents. It unclear whether decrease translated to weaker associations between difficulties. Using a population-based design, we examined correlations were significantly magnitude during compared before sample of 6,578 Canadian students grades 4-12. Students randomly assigned report on their experiences either school year or pandemic. Only who reported included present study as questions specifically experienced due victimization. As expected, overall correlated pandemic, girls secondary students. Significant correlation also found predominately general, verbal, social forms victimization, not physical cyber Among lower means most pre-pandemic. Findings indicate strong coupling difficulties, particularly need reduce these improve well-being

Language: Английский

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Exposure to Family Violence and School Bullying Perpetration among Children and Adolescents: Serial Mediating Roles of Parental Support and Depression

Applied Research in Quality of Life, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 19(4), P. 1501 - 1524

Published: April 12, 2024

Language: Английский

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Global Trends in Research on School Bullying and Its Correlation with COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Family Counseling and Education, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 8(2), P. 33 - 49

Published: Sept. 15, 2023

The extensive research conducted has demonstrated that school bullying is a global phenomenon with significant short-term and long-term implications. These concerns about the negative effects of lead to an increase in number publications literature, it becomes inevitable future studies will gradually increase. Therefore, better understanding trends patterns crucial providing new avenues for furthering knowledge this field. This study analyzed 1,388 on retrieved from Web Science database. data were collected, coded, subjected bibliometric analysis using computer software. results evaluated light existing disparities bullying, some recommendations provided.

Language: Английский

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Bullying Prevalence and Associations with Mental Health Problems Among Canadian Undergraduates During the COVID-19 Pandemic

International Journal of Bullying Prevention, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: June 26, 2024

Language: Английский

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