The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has raised the profile of children's participation in the United Kingdom. Hart's ‘ladder of participation’ has been the most influential model in this field. This paper offers an alternative model, based on five levels of participation: 1. Children are listened to. 2. Children are supported…
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Children & Society is a peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley, covering Children's Rights and Participation, Early Childhood Education and Development, Child Welfare and Adoption.
| Publisher | Wiley |
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| Reference style | Author–year (Chicago) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Children & Society 12 (3): 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Children's Rights and Participation Early Childhood Education and Development Child Welfare and Adoption Child Abuse and Trauma Homelessness and Social Issues |
| ISSN | 0951-0605 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.35 |
| h-index | 95 |
| i10-index | 904 |
| Total citations | 46,159 |
| Article processing charge | $3,450 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University College London |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com |
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This paper attempts to provide an overview of ethical issues related to social research with children. It sets the discussion in the context of current debates about researching children in the UK, and explores the extent to which children should be regarded as similar to, or different from, adults in social research, focusing on how…
Notions of ‘being’ and ‘becoming’ are intrinsic to childhood research. Whilst the ‘being’ child is seen as a social actor actively constructing ‘childhood’, the ‘becoming’ child is seen as an ‘adult in the making’, lacking competencies of the ‘adult’ that he or she will ‘become’. However, I argue that both approaches are in themselves problematic.…
The recognition of children's social agency and active participation in research has significantly changed children's position within the human and social sciences and led to a weakening of taken‐for‐granted assumptions found in more conventional approaches to child research. In order to hear the voices of children in the representation of their own lives it is…
Children's participation in decision‐making is complex: it is undertaken for different purposes and is reflected in different levels of involvement, different contexts and different activities. This paper reviews the current state of participation and, drawing on practice and research literature, highlights several aspects of practice where further consideration is needed if participation is to develop…