The challenge of childhood: distributions of childhood's ambiguity in adult institutions  

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Lee, Nick

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research vol. 06 no. 04 (Nov. 1999), page 455-474.
Topik: ambiguity; legitimacy; institution; childhood; children's rights

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: C43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Three case studies of the position of children within adult institutions are reported. Each study examines the difficulties that surround children speaking for themselves. The studies focus on three different scales of analysis, moving from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to a regional crisis in child protection in the UK, to the constraints and opportunities for children as witnesses in UK courtrooms. Childhood's ambiguity, which is at once a product or and a hindrance to, institutional legitimacy is typically 'managed' by institutions by deferring the moment of its resolution. Childhood ambiguity is thus open to distribution and redistribution. Deferral can push the burden of ambiguity onto children's shoulders. It is through this deferral of ambiguity that children's ability to speak for themselves in adult institutions is made problematic. The implications or these case studies for social studies of childhood that aim at increasing children's opportunities for self-representation within adult institutions are explored.

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