Childrens Understandings of Well-being: Towards a Child Standpoint [Hardcover]

The book presented here describes an outstanding attempt, not only to include childrens views but to partner with children to develop the concept of well-being and to study the phenomenon as the children understand it. The authors do this by placing the concept of childrens well-being within the existing discourses on the topic and by developing their unique theoretical approach to the concept. Then, and based on what children told them, the authors identify different domains and dimensions of childrens well-being and touch upon its multifaceted nature. The book concludes with drawing research and policy implications from an integrated summary of the studys findings and lists indicator concepts that present an alternative framework and conceptualisation of well-being from a child standpoint.  

Preface.- Introduction.- Part I.- Chapter 1. Tracing Conceptualizations of Well-Being: Locating the Child in Well-Being Discourse.- Chapter 2. Researching Childrens Understandings of Well-Being.- Part II.- Chapter 3. Overviewing a Child Standpoint on Well-Being.- Chapter 4. Agency, Autonomy and Asymmetry in ChildAdult Relations.- Chapter 5. Safety and Ontological Insecurity: Contesting the Meaning of Child Protection.- Chapter 6. Self, Identity and Well-Being.- Part III.- Chapter 7. Activities as Autonomy and Competence: The Meaning and Experience of Leisure for Well-Being.- Chapter 8. Money, Markets and Moral Identity: Exploring Childrens Understandings and Experiences of Economic Well-Being.- Chapter 9. Childrens Health and Well-Being.- Part IV.-Chapter 10. Findings and Conclusions on Well-Being from the Unique Vantage Point of Children.- Appendix.

Academics and postgraduate students will appreciate its disciplinary contribution and advancement of the field of child well-being; practitioners and policy makers will find use in its practical application and tangible outputs that can be used to improve the lives oflSp