Book description
This volume explores the questions related to the theory, practice, and policy of the well-being and well-becoming of children. It does so in a truly interdisciplinary way with a focus on the social sciences and philosophy, giving therefore justice to the growing insight that studying and promoting the well-being of children has a strong ethical component. It is dependent on the questions of good life, its conditions and cannot be separated from the concept of social justice and moral entitlements of children and their families. In this book, philosophers and social scientists, in close dialogue, shed light on some of the most challenging matters involved.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Gunter Graf & Gottfried Schweiger
- Introduction: Conceptualizing Children’s Well-Being
- Section I: Theories and Concepts of Children’s Well-Being
- Gunter Graf
- 1 Conceptions of Childhood, Agency and the Well-Being of Children
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 The Social Construction of Childhood
- 1.3 Children as Equals?
- 1.4 Agency and Well-being
- 1.5 Conclusion
- References
- Tatjana Višak
- 2 Does Welfare Trump Freedom? A Normative Evaluation of Contextualism about how to Promote Welfare
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Childhood Obesity
- 2.3 Childhood Obesity as a Welfare Problem
- 2.4 Contextualism About How to Promote Welfare
- 2.5 Defending Contextualism in the Case of Childhood Obesity Prevention Against a Normative Challenge
- 2.6 Is Childhood Obesity a Special Case?
- 2.7 Conclusion
- References
- Tim Moore
- 3 Keeping them in Mind
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Competing Conceptualisations and the Challenges of Researching Children
- 3.3 My Study
- 3.4 Reflexivity as a Process Through Which Theoretical and Procedural Challenges might be Navigated
- 3.5 Re-Considering Vulnerability and Incompetence Reflexively
- 3.5.1 The Influence of Vulnerable Conceptions
- 3.6 (Re)considering Vulnerability Reflexively
- 3.7 Negotiating Risks with Ethics Committees
- 3.7.1 Managing Researchers’ Vulnerabilities
- 3.7.2 Encouraging Conversations about Vulnerability and Children within the Broader Research Field
- 3.7.3 Children’s Competence and Incompetence
- 3.8 Reconsidering Children’s Competence
- 3.8.1 Children’s Competence Greater than Suggested
- 3.8.2 The Influence of Incompetent Conceptions
- 3.9 (Re)considering Competence Reflexively
- 3.9.1 Being Aware of one’s own Theoretical, Ontological and Epistemological Position
- 3.9.2 Considering Methodologies and Methods
- 3.9.3 Reflecting on Power
- 3.9.4 Considering Competence within the Field
- References
- Bill Gardner
- 4 The Developmental Capability Model of Child Well-Being
- 4.1 Development and Capabilities
- 4.2 Developmental Capability Well-Being and Justice
- 4.3 Implications for the Care of Children
- 4.4 Conclusion
- References
- Gottfried Schweiger
- 5 Justice and Children’s Well-Being and Well-Becoming
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 The Goals of Justice: Well-Being and Well-Becoming
- 5.3 Choosing Dimensions of Well-Being and Well-Becoming and the Currency of Justice
- 5.4 Pluralism and the Rule of Justice
- 5.5 Conclusions
- References
- Section II: Children Well-Being and Well-Becoming
- Amy Clair
- 6 Conceptualising Child versus Adult Well-Being: Schooling and Employment
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Engagement
- 6.2.1 Employee Engagement and Job Quality
- 6.2.2 School Engagement and Connectedness
- 6.3 The Happy-Productive Worker Hypothesis
- 6.4 A Brief Summary of Existing School/Subjective Well-Being Research
- 6.5 Do Differences between Children and Adults Undermine this Comparison?
- 6.6 Can this Comparison be Used to Influence Education Policy?
- References
- Alexander Bagattini
- 7 Male Circumcision and Children’s Interests
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Circumcision and the Bodily Integrity of the Child
- 7.3 Circumcision and Future Interests of the Child
- 7.3.1 Sexual Flourishing of the Future Adult
- 7.3.2 Autonomy
- 7.4 The Benefits of Circumcision
- 7.5 Conclusion
- References
- Mar Cabezas
- 8 Children’s Mental Well-Being and Education
- 8.1 Healthy Bodies and Healthy Minds: Why do Children Need Mental Well-Being?
- 8.2 Some Changes in our Educational Systems: Three Promising Attempts?
- 8.3 Psychology and Ethics in Mental Well-Being: Before a How You Need a What
- 8.4 Conclusion
- References
- Matteo D’Emilione, Giovannina Giuliano & Paloma Vivaldi Vera
- 9 Will Children of Social Care Services Users be Future Users? Results of a Pilot Research in Rome
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 MACAD Rationale: How the Model Works and How it Could be Developed
- 9.2.1 From the Capability Approach to Ecological Systems Theory: the Child at the Centre of the Development Process
- 9.3 Families’ Capabilities and Children’s Well-being: Results of Empirical Investigation
- 9.4 Policy-making and children’s well-being: lessons and concluding remarks
- References
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Index
- Back Cover
Product information
- Title: The Well-Being of Children
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2016
- Publisher(s): De Gruyter Open
- ISBN: 9783110450644
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