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Conclusion: autonomy, dialogue and recognition
Abstract
This chapter draws together themes from all the preceding contributions in order to ask some questions about child-adult relationships, questions of theoretical interest that are also salient for practitioners and policy makers. It observes that political and social theories are beginning to engage, from different directions, with questions about how communities of meaning and action are constructed when communicative styles and competencies are divergent. It attempts to explore the nature of this engagement, and point to some future directions, both for research and for social action in communities.
Abstract
This chapter draws together themes from all the preceding contributions in order to ask some questions about child-adult relationships, questions of theoretical interest that are also salient for practitioners and policy makers. It observes that political and social theories are beginning to engage, from different directions, with questions about how communities of meaning and action are constructed when communicative styles and competencies are divergent. It attempts to explore the nature of this engagement, and point to some future directions, both for research and for social action in communities.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Acknowledgements iv
- Notes on contributors v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction: children, politics and communication 1
- Charting change in the participatory settings of childhood: a very modest beginning 7
- Children’s autonomous organisation: reflections from the ground 31
- The children of Loxicha: participation beyond the UNCRC rhetoric? 49
- Displaced children’s participation in political violence: towards greater understanding of mobilisation 69
- Between a rock and a hard place: negotiating age and identity in the UK asylum system 89
- Understanding silences and secrets when working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children 107
- Doing Britishness: multilingual practices, creativity and criticality of British Chinese children 123
- Closings in young children’s disputes: resolution, dissipation and teacher intervention 145
- Keeping connected: textual cohesion and textual selves, how young people stay together online 167
- Conclusion: autonomy, dialogue and recognition 185
- Index 199
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Acknowledgements iv
- Notes on contributors v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction: children, politics and communication 1
- Charting change in the participatory settings of childhood: a very modest beginning 7
- Children’s autonomous organisation: reflections from the ground 31
- The children of Loxicha: participation beyond the UNCRC rhetoric? 49
- Displaced children’s participation in political violence: towards greater understanding of mobilisation 69
- Between a rock and a hard place: negotiating age and identity in the UK asylum system 89
- Understanding silences and secrets when working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children 107
- Doing Britishness: multilingual practices, creativity and criticality of British Chinese children 123
- Closings in young children’s disputes: resolution, dissipation and teacher intervention 145
- Keeping connected: textual cohesion and textual selves, how young people stay together online 167
- Conclusion: autonomy, dialogue and recognition 185
- Index 199
