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Is there a place for children as emotional beings in child protection policy and practice?
Drake, Gabrielle Edenborough, Michel Falloon, Jan Fattore, Tobia Felton, Rhea Mason, Jan Mogensen, Lise
Drake, Gabrielle
Edenborough, Michel
Falloon, Jan
Fattore, Tobia
Felton, Rhea
Mason, Jan
Mogensen, Lise
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Abstract
The emotional aspects of children's social relations have generally been marginalised in social science discourse. Children, who participated in the Australian segment of the Children's Understandings of Well-being (CUWB) project used various media to 'voice' the importance for their well-being of emotional relatedness with family, friends, animals and places. In this paper we place our construction of children's discussion of emotional relatedness in the context of the 'emotional turn' in research and briefly describe how the methodology for our project facilitated an understanding of the importance of children's emotions for their lives in the present. We then focus on the significance for child protection policy and practice, of what children tell us about feeling safe, as this relates to the importance of agency and relatedness with people and also with places.
Keywords
children's well-being, emotional relatedness, child protection, agency, place and belonging
Date
2019
Type
Journal article
Journal
The international journal of emotional education
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Volume
11
Issue
1
Page Range
115-134
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Open access
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All rights reserved
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Open