Children's Emotions in Policy and Practice

This volume examines children's and young people's emotions in policy-making and professional practice. It seeks both to inform readers about up-to-date research and to provoke debate, encouraging and enabling critical reflections upon emotions in policy and practice, relevant to readers' own context.

Children's Emotions in Policy and Practice is a timely contribution to children's geography Empirical materials from various childhood spaces, and a range of places, make this edited collection an interesting, and potentially useful, resource. this book is not only a contribution to the children's geography space, but may also be of interest to researchers in social and cultural geography more broadly, as well as other areas in the social sciences . (Leanne Higham, Children's Geographies, Vol. 15 (5), 2017)

Autorentext
Harriot Beazley, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Daryl van Blerk, Aspire Psychological Service, UK Lorraine van Blerk, University of Dundee, UK Fernando J. Bosco, San Diego State University, USA Sophie Bowlby, University of Reading, UK Damian Collins, University of Alberta, Canada Luke Dickens, Open University, UK Tom Disney, University of Birmingham, UK Louise Holt, Loughborough University, UK Kathrin Hörschelmann, Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig, Germany Petra Hricová, Civic Association Ulita, Slovakia Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, San Diego State University, USA Ruth Judge, University College London, UK Jennifer Lea, University of Exeter, UK Douglas Lonie, BOP Consulting, UK Anoop Nayak, Newcastle University, UK Morgan Tymko, University of Alberta, Canada Tamasine Preece, Swansea University, UK Lisa Procter, University of Sheffield, UK Noora Pyyry, University of Helsinki, Finland Sarah Wilson, University of Stirling, UK Bronwyn E Wood, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Children's emotions in policy and practice; Matej Blazek and Peter Kraftl

   PART I: SPACES OF CARE, HOME AND FAMILY

   2. The role of emotion in institutional spaces of Russian orphan care: policy and practical matters; Tom Disney

   3. Inappropriate Aid: the experiences and emotions of tsunami 'orphans' living in children's homes in Aceh, Indonesia; Harriot Beazley

   4. Young People's Emotional and Sensory Experiences of 'Getting-By' in Challenging Circumstances; Sarah Wilson

   5. Smoke-free cars: Placing children's emotions; Damian Collins and Morgan Tymko

   PART II: SPACES OF THE PUBLIC REALM, COMMUNITY AMD PEER RELATIONSHIPS

   6. Planning for Resilience: Urban Nature and the Emotional Geographies of Children's Political Engagement; Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco

   7. Geographies of hanging out: connecting everyday experiences with formal education; Noora Pyyry

   8. Young people, work and worklessness; Anoop Nayak

   9. Social suicide: a digital context for self-harm and suicidal ideation; Tamasine Preece

   PART III: SPACES OF INFORMAL EDUCATION, YOUTH WORK AND OUTREACH

   10. Emotion, volunteer-tourism and marginalized youth; Ruth Judge

   11. Are you listening? Voicing what matters in non-formal music education policy and practice; Douglas Lonie and Luke Dickens

   12. Biographical interviews as emotional encounters in street youth's lives: the role of research in facilitating therapeutic intervention; Lorraine van Blerk and Daryl van Blerk

   13. Understanding (how to be with) children's emotions: relationships, spaces and politics of reconnection in reflections from detached youth work; Matej Blazek and Petra Hricová

   PART IV: SPACES OF SCHOOL, FORMAL EDUCATION AND CITIZENSHIP

   14. Children, Nature and Emotion: Exploring how children's emotional experiences of 'green' spaces shape their understandings of the natural world; Lisa Procter

   15. Re-constituting Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties? The use of restorative approaches to justice in schools; Jennifer Lea, Sophie Bowlby and Louise Holt

   16. Freedom or coercion? Citizenship education policies and the politics of affect; Bronwyn E Wood

   17. Divided emotions: children at war; Kathrin Hörschelmann

   18. Mapping and making spaces of childhood; Matej Blazek and Peter Kraftl