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IDENTIFYING PARTICIPATION

CHILDHOOD RELEVANT APPROACHES

Life World System

competing value systems?

SYSTEM

• instrumental rationality
• individualism

LIFE WORLD

• the world of meaningful lived experience

THEORIZING PARTICIPATION

• analyse what is meant by participation
• understand what happens when children

participate

• a normative account in terms of the ethical

purpose of the activity

from Thomas

WHAT DOES PARTICIPATION MEAN?

• a struggle for recognition (Thomas)
• modes of recognition
• love - primary relationships, strong emotional

attachments

• rights - respect
• solidarity - “social relations of symmetrical

esteem”

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CHILDREN PARTICIPATE?

• Stoecklin - The

kaleidoscope of experience

–Nibell in Stoecklin

“an individual’s or group’s capacity to make decisions, act, and interact with other people in a socially competent way.”

Another definition of agency

subject of rights social actor CHILD AS ‘SUBJECTS OF RIGHTS’

• paternalistic - ‘becomings’
• welfare - protection
• emancipation - comptent
• liberationist - ‘beings’

SOCIAL ACTOR

emerging capabilities

reflexive ETHICAL PURPOSE OF PARTICIPATION?

• Capability approach

The focus of the capability approach is...what (one) is in fact able to do, whether or not (one) chooses to make use of that opportunity. individual advantage is judged in the capability approach by a person’s capability to do things he or she has reason to value

AGENTICITY AND CAPABILITIES

• agenticity refers to action opportunities for

children

• capabilities refers to action opportunities children

have reason to value