SYSTEM IDENTIFYING PARTICIPATION Life World System • instrumental rationality CHILDHOOD RELEVANT APPROACHES • individualism competing value systems? LIFE WORLD THEORIZING PARTICIPATION WHAT DOES PARTICIPATION MEAN? • a struggle for recognition (Thomas) • analyse what is meant by participation • modes of recognition • understand what happens when children • love - primary relationships, strong emotional participate • the world of meaningful lived experience attachments • a normative account in terms of the ethical • rights - respect purpose of the activity • solidarity - “social relations of symmetrical esteem” from Thomas
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CHILDREN PARTICIPATE? Another definition of agency “an individual’s or group’s capacity to make decisions, act, and interact with other people in a subject of rights social actor • Stoecklin - The socially competent way.” kaleidoscope of experience –Nibell in Stoecklin CHILD AS ‘SUBJECTS OF RIGHTS’ SOCIAL ACTOR ETHICAL PURPOSE OF PARTICIPATION? • paternalistic - ‘becomings’ emerging capabilities • welfare - protection • Capability approach • emancipation - comptent reflexive • liberationist - ‘beings’
AGENTICITY AND CAPABILITIES The focus of the capability individual advantage is approach is...what (one) is in judged in the capability • agenticity refers to action opportunities for fact able to do, whether or not approach by a person’s children (one) chooses to make use of capability to do things he or • capabilities refers to action opportunities children that opportunity. she has reason to value have reason to value
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