Overview
- Offers perspectives from academia and humanitarian groups as well as from a collective of youth activists themselves
- Sheds light on the experience of childhood in lockdown to counteract youth invisibility in pandemic times
- Asks whether children's rights are being put into practice, why, and why not
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About this book
This edited volume examines how opportunities to realise children’s rights and the experience of childhood itself have been changed by the pandemic. It brings together the voices of leading scholars, policy advisors, psychologists, charities engaged in empowering children, and children and young people themselves. By exposing children’s own perspectives and ideas for change, the book aims to suggest ways in which children could be better supported during this crisis. Chapters connect the experiences of under-represented groups, including children with disabilities and housing-distressed children. Authors illuminate ways to see and hear children more clearly and enable children’s participation during and beyond COVID-19.
This book is part of a mini-series that explores the effects of COVID-19 on children’s education, rights and participation. These books will expose and connect the struggles faced by particularly vulnerable children, including children with disabilities, housing-distressed children, and refugee and displaced children. They will explore how best to listen to and support children in diverse situations, in order to enable them to realise their rights more effectively.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Part III
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Reviews
“This edited collection presents a compelling range of voices that illuminate how children’s lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws on cutting-edge methodological and theoretical approaches to present the often-unheard voices of students and children themselves as well as researchers and those from civil society organisations. Written in a clear and accessible style, it will be a grip** read for anyone interested in the impact of the pandemic on global childhoods.”(Ann Phoenix, Professor of Psychosocial Studies, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Social Research Institute, UCL Institute of Education, UK)
“This is an extraordinary, inclusive, multi-layered and multi-actor critical analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the rights of children and young people. Its editor’s genuine concern to promote a sustainable debate that effects participatory, positive change on the lives of children is reflected in the choice of authors and perspectives presented. Young people, practitioners, and academics invite readers on a journey of understanding and thinking in manners that will undoubtedly lead them to act for change, and that will encourage further academic, political, and public debates in which childhood is re-positioned and the practice of listening is made central.” (Sofia Leitão, Senior Advisory Board Member at “Hope For Children” CRC Policy Center, Cyprus, and Senior Development Manager at Rinova Ltd, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ruby Turok-Squire is studying for the Graduate Diploma in Law at City, University of London, UK. She previously completed an LLM in International Development Law and Human Rights at the University of Warwick, UK. In 2020, she co-organised an interdisciplinary conference entitled “Rainbows in Our Windows: Childhood in the Time of Corona”.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children’s Experience, Participation, and Rights During COVID-19
Editors: Ruby Turok-Squire
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07099-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07098-3Published: 17 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07099-0Published: 16 September 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 181
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Education, general, Human Rights, Public Health