Participation, Citizenship and Trust in Children’s Lives

225 Pages·2013·0.95 MB·English

by  Hanne Warming (eds.)

Participation, Citizenship and Trust in Children’s Lives
Studies in Childhood and Youth
Participation, Citizenship
and Trust in Children’s
Lives
Edited by
Hanne Warming
Roskilde University, Denmark
Selection and editorial matter © Hanne Warming 2013
Individual chapters © their respective authors 2013
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Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Hanne Warming
Chapter 1 Theorising Trust – Citizenship Dynamics 10
Conceptualisation of the Relationship Between
Trust and Children’s Participation and
Citizenship in Globalised Societies
Hanne Warming
Chapter 2 Adult Trust and Children’s Democratic 32
Participation
Jo Moran-Ellis and Heinz Sünker
Chapter 3 Trust Building and Violation During Childhood 52
Consequences for Children’s Wellbeing and
Dispositions for Trust in Later Life
Julia Grosse and Hanne Warming
Chapter 4 Betrayal of Trust: Victims of Maternal Incest 73
Jackie Turton
Chapter 5 Trust Relationships Between Children, Social 93
Welfare Professionals and the Organisations
of Welfare
Sharon Pinkney
Chapter 6 Trust, Social Work and Care Ethics 114
An Exploration of the Luhmannian Concept
of Trust and Social Work with Children
at Risk: Relating Luhmann’s Concept of
Trust to the Ethics of Care
Michael Christensen
Chapter 7 Trust and Facilitation in Educational Interactions 132
Claudio Baraldi and Federico Farini
Chapter 8 Negotiating ‘Children’s Best Interests’ in the 154
Context of Parental Migration
Maria-Carmen Pantea
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Chapter 9 ‘I trust my mom the most’: Trust Patterns of 174
Contemporary Youth
Mirjana Ule
Conclusion: Potentials, Challenges and Limitations of the 194
Trust Approach
Hanne Warming
Index 210
Notes on Contributors
Claudio Baraldi is Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative
Processes, Department of Language and Cultural Sciences, University of
Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. His research includes work on inter-
actions between adults and children in institutional settings, promotion
of children’s citizenship and social participation and the development of
methodologies and techniques for conflict management and dialogue.
Michael Christensen holds a Master’s in Social Science and Social Geo-
graphy from Roskilde University, Denmark, and is currently a doctoral
student at the same university at the Department of Society and Global-
isation. Michael’s main field of interest is the everyday life of children
and young people, and, for some, their contact with social welfare
institutions and social workers. Moreover, Michael has worked in two
Danish organisations, researching in the social welfare institutions’
perspectives on their contact with children and young people.
Federico Farini is a contracted researcher at the Department of
Language and Culture Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio
Emilia, Italy, where he received his PhD in 2008. He participates in
research teams about children and young people’s participation, inter-
linguistic and intercultural mediation. His field of expertise covers the
topics of educational interaction, healthcare interaction, intercultural
communication, mass media and methodology of social research.
Julia Grosse has been affiliated to the Institute for Civil Society
Research at Ersta Sköndal University College and the Department of
Social Work at Stockholm University, Sweden. She recently finished
her PhD thesis on trust from a life course perspective. In her earlier
works she dealt with young people’s engagement in civil society and is
also interested in mixed methods approaches.
Jo Moran-Ellis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology,
University of Surrey, UK. Her two main areas of childhood research are
children as social actors and the implications of this for everyday life,
and considerations of research issues in empirical studies of children’s
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lives. Her other key area of work looks at methodological questions in
integrating multiple research methods.
Maria-Carmen Pantea holds a PhD in Sociology (BBU, Romania), an
MSc in Evidence Based Social Interventions (Oxford) and a MA with
Merit in Gender Studies (CEU). She has conducted research on the impact
of migration on children and young people, on volunteering and
the Roma minority. She is a member of the Pool of European Youth
Researchers and holds a teaching position at the ‘Babes Bolyai’ University,
Romania.
Sharon Pinkney is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University,
UK, and is currently the Faculty’s Associate Dean (Nations, Regions and
External Relations). She is engaged in research on children and young
people’s ‘participation’ in decision-making about their lives and how
this constructs, produces and reproduces children as ‘new subjects’
within social-welfare formations.
Heinz Sünker is Professor in Social Pedagogy and Social Politics in
the Faculty of Educational and Social Science at Wuppertal Univer-
sity, Germany. He is engaged in research and publications on critical
social theory, history and theory of social pedagogy and social politics,
childhood studies and child and youth welfare, German fascism and
resistance.
Jackie Turton is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the
University of Essex, UK. She is an experienced qualitative researcher
with both national and international publications. Her research activ-
ities include social and health needs of marginalised groups, child pro-
tection and women as offenders. Jackie has completed projects for the
Home Office, Department of Health and the Royal College of Paediatrics
and Child Health in the UK as well as the Ministry of Integration in
Ireland. The subsequent reports have been used to influence both policy
and practice.
Mirjana Ule is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of
Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Slovenia. She is the head of the
Center for Social Psychology and the coordinator of the graduate pro-
gramme ‘Sociology of everyday life’. Her main topics of research are
youth studies, life course (from youth to adulthood), identity studies
and gender studies.
Notes on Contributors ix
Hanne Warming is Professor of Sociology, Childhood and Social Work
at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University,
Denmark. For many years, she has been doing research on childhood
and children’s everyday lives, perspectives, participation and lived cit-
izenship. Currently she leads a research project on ‘Trust in social work
with children at risk’, financed by the Danish Research Council. Further
she holds the position as appointed member of the National Council of
Children’s Affairs (until Oct. 2012), as coordinator of the ESA research
network on children and childhood, and as head of the international
research network TRUDY (Trust dynamics in the governance of child-
hood), which was created in relation to this book project.