Childhood in Crisis? Perceptions of 7-11-Year-Olds on Being a Child and the Implications for Education's Well-Being Agenda

Autor/in	Adams, Kate
Titel	Childhood in Crisis? Perceptions of 7-11-Year-Olds on Being a Child and the Implications for Education's Well-Being Agenda
Quelle	In: Education 3-13, 41 (2013) 5, S.523-537 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4279
DOI	10.1080/03004279.2011.613849
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Children; Childhood Attitudes; Well Being; Empowerment; Disadvantaged Youth; Play; Family (Sociological Unit); Friendship; Adults; Interpersonal Relationship; Parent Child Relationship; Bullying; School Role; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Child; Kind; Kinder; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Spiel; Familie; Freundschaft; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mobbing
Abstract	Notions of a good childhood are inextricably linked with well-being. Both concepts are central to a contentious debate about the quality of childhood in the UK, which is partly situated within the "childhood in crisis" discourse which opponents claim is overstated. This study contributes to the debate by hearing the voices of children as co-constructors of their own childhood. Perceptions of childhood were collected through semi-structured group interviews with 56 children aged 7-11 in a school in an economically deprived town in east England. Children spontaneously identified childhood in a positive way. Further questioning was required to explore the negative aspects. Childhood was mostly considered preferable to adulthood which was deemed tedious and stressful although children also identified advantages to being older. Implications for primary schools' well-being agenda, and the place of the school in shaping childhood, are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10