Children's Emotions in Policy and Practice: Mapping and Making Spaces of Childhood (Studies in Childhood and Youth)

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. Cover 1 Contents 8 List of Figures 11 Acknowledgements 12 Notes on Contributors 13 Highlights for Policy and Practice 17 1 Introduction: Children’s Emotions in Policy and Practice 21 Part I: Spaces of Care, Home and Family 34 2 The Role of Emotion in Institutional Spaces of Russian Orphan Care: Policy and Practical Matters 35 3 Inappropriate Aid: The Experiences and Emotions of Tsunami ‘Orphans’ Living in Children’s Homes in Aceh, Indonesia 52 4 Young People’s Emotional and Sensory Experiences of ‘Getting By’ in Challenging Circumstances 70 5 Smoke-Free Cars: Placing Children’s Emotions 86 Part II: Spaces of the Public Realm, Community and Peer Relationships 102 6 Planning for Resilience: Urban Nature and the Emotional Geographies of Children’s Political Engagement 103 7 Geographies of Hanging Out: Connecting Everyday Experiences with Formal Education 123 8 Young People, Work and Worklessness 138 9 Social Suicide: A Digital Context for Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation 154 Part III: Spaces of Informal Education, Youth Work and Outreach 170 10 Emotion, Volunteer-Tourism and Marginalised Youth 171 11 Are You Listening? Voicing What Matters in Non-Formal Music Education Policy and Practice 188 12 Biographical Interviews as Emotional Encounters in Street Youth’s Lives: The Role of Research in Facilitating Therapeutic Intervention 203 13 Understanding (How to Be with) Children’s Emotions: Relationships, Spaces and Politics of Reconnection in Reflections from Detached Youth Work 218 Part IV: Spaces of School, Formal Education and Citizenship 233 14 Children, Nature and Emotion: Exploring How Children’s Emotional Experiences of ‘Green’ Spaces Shape Their Understandings of the Natural World 234 15 Reconstituting Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties? The Use of Restorative Approaches to Justice in Schools 255 16 Freedom or Coercion? Citizenship Education Policies and the Politics of Affect 272 17 Divided Emotions: Children at War 287 18 Mapping and Making Spaces of Childhood 304 Index 321 Front Matter....Pages i-xix Introduction: Children’s Emotions in Policy and Practice....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 The Role of Emotion in Institutional Spaces of Russian Orphan Care: Policy and Practical Matters....Pages 17-33 Inappropriate Aid: The Experiences and Emotions of Tsunami ‘Orphans’ Living in Children’s Homes in Aceh, Indonesia....Pages 34-51 Young People’s Emotional and Sensory Experiences of ‘Getting By’ in Challenging Circumstances....Pages 52-67 Smoke-Free Cars: Placing Children’s Emotions....Pages 68-83 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 Planning for Resilience: Urban Nature and the Emotional Geographies of Children’s Political Engagement....Pages 87-106 Geographies of Hanging Out: Connecting Everyday Experiences with Formal Education....Pages 107-121 Young People, Work and Worklessness....Pages 122-137 Social Suicide: A Digital Context for Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation....Pages 138-153 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 Emotion, Volunteer-Tourism and Marginalised Youth....Pages 157-173 Are You Listening? Voicing What Matters in Non-Formal Music Education Policy and Practice....Pages 174-188 Biographical Interviews as Emotional Encounters in Street Youth’s Lives: The Role of Research in Facilitating Therapeutic Intervention....Pages 189-203 Understanding (How to Be with) Children’s Emotions: Relationships, Spaces and Politics of Reconnection in Reflections from Detached Youth Work....Pages 204-218 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Children, Nature and Emotion: Exploring How Children’s Emotional Experiences of ‘Green’ Spaces Shape Their Understandings of the Natural World....Pages 221-241 Reconstituting Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties? The Use of Restorative Approaches to Justice in Schools....Pages 242-258 Freedom or Coercion? Citizenship Education Policies and the Politics of Affect....Pages 259-273 Divided Emotions: Children at War....Pages 274-290 Mapping and Making Spaces of Childhood....Pages 291-307 Back Matter....Pages 308-311