Childrens Concepts of Well-being: Challenges in International Comparative Quali [Hardcover]

This book presents a range of innovative analytical frameworks that can be used to approach the complexities of childrens understandings and experiences of well-being in a locally oriented, context-sensitive and multi-nationally comparative way. It addresses the challenges of undertaking research on childrens understandings of well-being from a multi-national qualitative perspective. Chapters in the book present results that show how children from various places all over the world conceptualize and experience well-being as well as how this is linked local, regional and national social, political and cultural contexts. Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Analytical Approaches and Child Well-being: Developments and Challenges (Tobia Fattore).- Part 2. Approaches to Analysing Childrens Well-being.- Chapter 2. Well-being as a Cultural Construct: Children?s Perspectives and Discourse Practise (Susann Fegter).- Chapter 3. Intersectionality as an Approach to Unfold Social Inequalities Within Concepts of Well-being of Children in Azerbaijan and Germany (Christine Hunner-Kreisel).- Chapter 4. Well-being and Socially Valued Resources: Analytical Processes from the Australian Fieldwork Experience (Gabrielle Drake).- Chapter 5. Children's Conceptualisations of Well-Being and the Relationship with their Lived Experiences: The Challenges of Developing a Fresh Analytical Framework (Colette McAuley).- Chapter 6. A New Theoretical Framework for the Study of Childrens Experiences of Well-being (Daniel Stoecklin).- Part 3. Methodological Interrogations of Childrens Well-being.- Chapter 7. The Contribution of Qualitative Methodologies for a Comprehensive Analysis on Subjective Well-being in Children (Joana Alexandre).- Chapter 8. Childrens Delphi: A Participatory Methodological Framework for Developing Child Well-being Indicators (Shazly Savahl).- Chapter 9. The Use of Focus Groups for Improving Data Collection and Interpretation in the Context of Childrens Subjective Well³”