scholarly journals Bonding through Designing; how a participatory approach to videography can catalyse an emotive and reflective dialogue with young people

Author(s):  
Marianne McAra ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Križ

This book examines a participatory approach in child protection practices in Norway and the United States, exploring ways of empowering children. The book shows how children can be encouraged to develop and express their own opinions and explores tools for child protection workers to negotiate complex boundaries around the inclusion of children in decision-making. The goal of the book is to show in what ways child protection caseworkers employed by public child protection agencies in Norway and the United States can create citizens by promoting the participation of children and young people in their everyday practice. Public child protection agencies are only one part of the citizenship piece, but they are a salient one in the lives of children and young people who encounter them. Child protection caseworkers working in public child protection agencies, make very important decisions about children and young people's lives and provide children, youth, and families with pertinent services. The book presents valuable insights from front-line child protection professionals' unique perspectives and experiences within two very different systems, and evaluates the impacts of different organizational practices in promoting children's participation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Allan ◽  
Kelly Davis-Steel ◽  
Fran Dunn ◽  
Valerie J Dunn

Most UK child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) support young people up to the age of 17/18, at which point they are discharged, or transition to an adult service. This transition is often difficult for young people, as they also face the complex physical and psychosocial changes of adolescence. Transition from CAMHS is often poorly managed, with negative outcomes for young people. Improved preparation may improve both outcomes and experience. We worked with 17 young people and staff from three NHS mental health foundation trusts to co-produce the CAMHS Transition Preparation Programme (TPP), deliverable in routine NHS settings. We took a creative, participatory approach to maximize young people's involvement in the research. Young people steered the direction of the work, and were involved in decision-making and dissemination both nationally and within their trusts. In this commentary, two young participant–researchers and one NHS staff member describe the project from their perspectives.


Author(s):  
Susan Kay-Flowers

This chapter explains the nature of the study which focused on children’s everyday lived experience of parental separation. It describes how young people were involved in designing the research, constructing the research tools and analysis of some of the data. Adopting a participatory approach, I worked with young people to determine the research design and create specific research tools to investigate young adults’ experience. As the researcher I worked as a ‘bricoleur’ with young people to co-create a short video clip of a fictionalised case study of children’s experience of parental separation, known as a Prompt Simulation Video (PSV) and an online questionnaire. The stages and processes involved in creating this bricolage are explained in the chapter. The chapter goes on to explain the process of data analysis which involved categorising responses to the question which asked respondents how they felt about their parents’ separation now according to the level of satisfaction and level of acceptance shown. Where these coincided a respondent’s level of accommodation of parental separation could be established, this became the central category for further analysis. It concludes with reflections on the strengths, weaknesses and limitations of the methodology.


INFERENSI ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Misbah Zulfa Elizabeth

The youth is the holder estafeta human struggle and development. But in reality , not all young people have the opportunity to forge themselves in order to prepare their individual role in their family since his parents died or because of other calamity. Life in the orphanage then to be an option . With a participatory approach this community engagement program aims to find out what the needs of youth in the orphanage , how to plan and implement communitybased programs, and what the results obtained. Results of the program are: (1) there are motivation to be independent, productive, and responsible, (2) the importance of planting the propagation of Islam as well as the awareness of the importance of public speaking to convey the values of Islam, (3) Entrepreneurship is a subject preparation assistance to have creative and productive life and is a determinant aspect of community empowerment, and (4) IT training is a very important training for debriefing subjects beneficiaries


2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Bertozzi

Child-centred approaches focus on the children’s perspective and on participation. Participatory action research can be a fruitful methodology for investigating delicate topics such as child labour in migrant communities. This article presents a peer research project conducted in Rome (Italy) which actively involved a group of foreign working young people over two years and employed a variety of methodologies. Research methods will be illustrated and critically discussed, with a particular focus on the benefits for the migrant youths involved and ethical questions arising from this type of research. A brief summary of the main findings will also be provided.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thabisile Makhosazana Buthelezi ◽  
Ayinde Mojeed Agbomeji ◽  
Rejoice Gugu Lindiwe Cele

 This article reports on the findings of a study, which included 154 participating university students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Qualitative data obtained from the participants were thematically analysed, using analytical induction and drawing from Mezirow’s transformative learning theory. The findings showed that African folklore provides knowledge that includes cultural, folklore and morality knowledge, which is integrated with values. This knowledge is packaged, arranged and transmitted in particular ways that enable the learner or young person to engage in self-reflection, reflective dialogue, and reflective action. We argue that African folklore in itself is a pedagogical strategy that integrates knowledge and values with entertainment elements that expose the young people to life through a transformative phase, which encompasses psychological, convictional and life-style adaptation processes. In these processes, both the nature of knowledge and the ways in which the knowledge is communicated constitute an African folklore approach to education that when used and reinforced, ultimately leads to lasting positive attitudinal and behaviour changes in young people. We therefore, recommend that further research be conducted to explore the use of African folklore as a teaching and learning strategy in formal school settings, particularly in life-skills education, with the aim of achieving lasting positive attitudinal and behaviour changes in young people.


Haemophilia ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Schultz ◽  
R. B. Butler ◽  
L. Mckernan ◽  
R. Boelsen ◽  

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