Sociale velfærdsordninger

This book examines the lives of children and young adults living in residential care systems in Zimbabwe and their unique conceptualization of family. While the importance of family for the development and wellbeing of children can't be overemphasized, the questions of what and who counts as family to orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) are under-researched. Gwenzi brings a social constructionist approach to study OVCs in institutional care as well as living with their families in Zimbabwe, finding that they do not have a single definition of family and that they use diverse characteristics to describe what family means to them. With the data suggesting a need for belonging, continuity of relationships, protection, and trust, this study makes recommendations for policy and practice with youth in alternative care in sub-Saharan Africa.

This edited volume investigates the effects of shifting configurations and conceptualizations of the experience and meaning of home as it is embodied in early childhood care and education (ECCE). As the globalized early learning agenda drives more children to attend ECCE institutions, these institutions increasingly employ the concept of home through their curriculum and daily operations by attempting to foster a homelike environment or by incorporating items from children's homes into play. Chapters seek to recognize the complexity of a concept that is often taken for granted by exploring ways of being and thinking that share an interest in the notion of home. Authors offer multiple lenses and approaches to make sense of home as a conceptual space that operates in complex and often interrelated ways, including as an intellectual space, a built environment, a disciplinary technology, and a threshold.

This book explores the connection between family structure and circumstances, parental engagement, and adolescent sexual behavior. Given that South Africa contains the highest portion of the global HIV epidemic within a single country, a comprehensive, book-length investigation intösometimes risky¿adolescent sexual behaviour is necessary. Drawing from the longitudinal Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS) of more than 4,000 adolescents between the ages of fourteen and twenty-two, as well as qualitative interviews and focus group discussions with parents and adolescents, this study pioneers empirical investigation of adolescent sexual behavior within the intricate framework of family dynamics in South Africa.

The present research deals with the policies directed at young adults on social assistance without vocational training (YAS). Drawing on data collected within cantonal administrations and providers of integration (Basel-City and Geneva) as well as interviews with YAS, the publication analysis cantonal social policies and their moral underpinnings. In Switzerland, there is an ongoing strategical shift in the field of youth policies that emphasizes educational integra- tion as a first and primary integration step. This policy shift has implications for the strategical scope of the cantons. The focus on "education first" as a guideline dictates an approach, which follows an intertwined neo-liberal and paternalistic discourse: On the one hand, social policies are designed as investment to avoid a long-term labour market exclusion of the YAS. On the other hand, these policies are legitimized via narratives that construct the YAS as irresponsible and dependent - not yet ready to enter adulthood. In doing so, social policies create and reproduce structural vulnerabilities related to dominant moral values like reinforcing the work ethics of young welfare beneficiaries.

11-årige Ronnies mor, Linda, er blevet dømt for butikstyveri og skal i fængsel. Det er ikke en lang dom, men den føles uendelig for Ronnie og hans mindre søskende, der skal være derhjemme alene. Damen fra socialkontoret har forsøgt at overtale Linda til at sende børnene på børnehjem, indtil hun bliver løsladt, men det vil hverken Linda eller Ronnie have. I stedet aftaler de at bilde alle ind, at de bliver passet af deres mormor. Det bliver ikke nemt for Ronnie og hans søskende, men én ting er de enige om – alt er bedre end børnehjemmet.”Når mor kommer hjem” er en realistisk og rørende fortælling om en familie på bunden af samfundet. Bogen udkom første gang i 1995 og blev i 1998 filmatiseret af Lone Scherfig.Martha Christensen (1926-1995) var en dansk forfatter, der skrev en lang række romaner og noveller. Hendes bøger kredser om livet for samfundets svage og forsømte børn og voksne, som hun blandt andet mødte i sit arbejde som fritidspædagog. Hun debuterede som romanforfatter i 1962 med romanen ”Vær god ved Remond” om en udviklingshæmmet dreng, der bliver sat på børnehjem. Martha Christensen modtog en lang række udmærkelser for sine bøger blandt andet De Gyldne Laurbær i 1987 og Herman Bangs Mindelegat i 1977. Flere af hendes bøger er blevet filmatiseret med stor succes.

Rethinking the contributions of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology for political ethnography, the Politics of Relations elaborates its relational approach to the state along four interlaced axes of research - embeddedness, boundary work, modalities and strategic selectivity - that enable thick comparisons across spatio-temporal scales of power. In Serbia local experiences of self-government, infrastructure and care motivate its citizens to "become the state" while cursing it heartily. While both officials and citizens strive for a state that enables a "normal life," they navigate the increasingly illiberal politics enacted by national parties and tolerated by trans-national donors.

Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes the right to participation: children and adolescents are entitled to participate and to have their views taken into account in all issues affecting them in accordance to their age and maturity. The volume explores this right to participation in residential care. The impact of participation and complaint procedures in residential care facilities are evaluated by means of crucial results from an empirical study. How do these participation and complaints procedures work? The authors discuss crucial facilitators and barriers with regard to the implementation of children's rights to participate.

This book considers the responses of states to migrant girls who are separated from family and enter state care systems as unaccompanied or trafficked young people. The book draws on research with girls and social work practitioners in the UK to explore what can happen when separated girls encounter professionals at borders and within care systems. It considers how separated girls adapt to different ideas of what it means to be a girl in destination countries, and how this is affected by their other intersecting identities. The book identifies how girls can feel welcomed, but also how young migrants can be seen in excluding ways. It argues that narratives of the fragile 'refugee child' are unhelpful ways to understand individual girls. Using theories and clear language relevant to both academics and practitioners, the author fills a gap in the research on migrant and trafficked young women who frequently represent the minority in care systems globally. 

This book analyzes children's agency as interactional achievement in formal and informal contexts of education and illuminates how agency can be encouraged and supported in these educational contexts. Taking a sociological approach, the author deals with children as social agents rather than learners and considers structures of interaction which encourage and support agency, rather than teaching. The book draws from field research conducted over more than twenty years in a variety of Italian and international contexts. This book is unique in providing a theoretical reflection on the social structures that can support children's agency, as well as a large amount of examples which show how these structures and agency work. 

Partizipation oder auch Kinder- und Jugendbeteiligung beziehen sich u. a. auf eine unterschiedlich umfänglich alltagsgerichtete Teilhabe von jungen Menschen und eine zukunftsorientierte Demokratiebildung. Bei der fast schon inflationären Verwendung des Begriffs "Partizipation" bleibt jedoch häufig unklar, was darunter verstanden wird oder werden soll. Eingebettet in den gesellschaftlichen Kontext der Demokratie als Herrschaftsform wird das dualistische Verhältnis von Partizipation als Chance für Entscheidungsbetroffene versus Partizipation als Instrument der Herrschenden aufgezeigt. Denn auch wenn Partizipation im öffentlichen Diskurs verspricht, eine Möglichkeit des Mitredens und -wirkens zu sein, muss sie nicht zwangsläufig auf Veränderung zielen, sondern kann gleichermaßen bestehende Ungleichheitssysteme stabilisieren. Mit Blick auf Kindheit gilt es besonders die Ungleichheit von Akteur*innen innerhalb der generationalen Ordnung hervorzuheben. Es wird sich mit der Frage auseinandergesetzt, wie Partizipation unter Ungleichen innerhalb dieser generationalen Verortungen und der damit verbunden asymmetrischen Sozialisationsarrangements überhaupt gelingen kann und welchen Möglichkeitsräumen, Restriktionen und Gefahren des Machtmissbrauchs sie unterliegt.

Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen"Nein, Danke, geht arbeiten!"Das Bürgergeld ist Wasser auf den Mühlen von linken und rechten Populisten. Der Mindestlohn und Armutsrenten sind schon lange nicht mehr ausreichend und die Aushängeschilder neoliberaler Politik der etablierten Parteien. Schleichend entsteht ein neues und hoch modernes Feudalsystem unter dem Deckmantel eines Sozialstaates, wovon die Meisten nichts hören wollen.Wie soll es also weitergehen?Veränderungen sind für die Meisten viel zu unbequem. Weshalb auch der Status quo an Armut und bundesweiten Notständen einfach so weiter aufrecht gehalten wird. Aber, wie lange wird das noch gut gehen, bei völlig maroden Sozialsystemen?Schöne neue Zukunft.Ein Erzähl- und Sachbuch über eine ganz neue Form des Sozialstaates und des Zusammenlebens, was Sie so bestimmt noch nicht kennen.Aufklärend, interessant, visionär. Stimmen aus dem Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung empfehlen es bereits.Jetzt auch zum Leihen unter www.schoeneneuezukunft.wordpress.com

This book explores how the increasing need for specific kinds of parental engagement impacts care-experienced young peoples' trajectories. Previous Australian studies have found that care-experienced young people demonstrate poorer outcomes in health, education, and the criminal justice system throughout their life course. However, this multi-layered case study is the first to specifically address barriers in obtaining higher education¿an effective tool for social mobility. In particular, the authors unpack how university marketing relies on young people to have a parent who understands tertiary education transitions to help them navigate post-school pathways to careers or higher education, as well as how policies might fail to help students who do not have such a figure in their lives. The authors offer suggestions for policy change in Australia while providing a basis for global comparisons and recommendations for how care-experienced young people and their support networks can overcome present challenges.

This edited volume covers issues related to educational research and practices for early childhood education and care (ECEC), highlighting interprofessional and family-professional collaboration within inclusive education in different cultural contexts. Contributors include authors from throughout Europe, including Lithuania, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Spain, UK, and Ukraine. Chapters provide a forum for intentional dialogue about and shared understanding of successful and inspiring ECEC practices, the main barriers of interprofessional and family-professional collaboration, and opportunities for further improvement of inclusive ECEC practices.

Das Buch vereint bislang weitgehend entkoppelte Diskurse zur Demokratiepädagogik und Demokratiebildung in Jugendhilfe und Schule und gibt Impulse zur Weiterentwicklung in den beiden Institutionen sowie in Kooperation. In den Beiträgen werden Grundlagen und Studien zu demokratischer Bildung präsentiert sowie unterschiedliche Bildungsorte im Aufwachsen von Kindern und Jugendlichen betrachtet. Die jeweilige Perspektive auf Demokratiepädagogik und Demokratiebildung wird ebenso diskutiert wie Fragen von Voraussetzungen und Möglichkeiten demokratischer Bildung. Zusätzliche Potenziale finden über die Beschäftigung mit den Themen Kooperation, Digitalisierung, Diversität, Familienbildung, Reformpädagogik und Organisationsentwicklung Berücksichtigung.

The EPDF and EPUB are available open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This publication was supported by the University of Essex's open access fund. How do young people transitioning from care plan their future lives? Planning is usually thought of as requiring clear goals and 'future orientation', but how might planning be regarded by young people whose wishes, hopes, and plans have been repeatedly dashed? In this book Peter Appleton builds on research interviews with care-experienced young adults, and on cross-disciplinary theories of planning and of emotions, to develop a creative and non-dogmatic three-aspects model of planning for young people leaving care. A valuable resource for practitioners, researchers, and educators, this book puts forward a powerful case to think more broadly and flexibly about transition planning with care-leavers, placing the voices of young people at its heart.

This book powerfully sets out the case for Transitional Safeguarding, a new approach to protection and safeguarding designed to address the needs and behaviours of young people in their mid-teens to mid-twenties who are falling between gaps in current systems, with often devastating results. Addressing these gaps, it outlines how the specific needs of young people can be met through this approach. Written by leading experts in this area with strong practice networks, it presents up-to-date evidence for its effectiveness, and also uses examples from practice to illustrate the ways in which services are beginning to address these issues.

What do the best youth arts programs look like, and how can young people develop through them? This groundbreaking book highlights the conditions needed for youth arts work to be successful, using six international, best practice case studies.

Telling the stories of young refugees in a range of international urban settings, this book explores how newcomers navigate urban spaces and negotiate multiple injustices in their everyday lives. This innovative edited volume is based on in-depth, qualitative research with young refugees and their perspectives on migration, social relations and cultural spaces. The chapters give voice to refugee youth from a wide variety of social backgrounds, including insights about their migration experiences, their negotiations of spatial justice and injustice, and the diverse ways in which they use urban space.

This book introduces the use of facilitation to support children¿s agency in the classroom as authors of knowledge. The authors draw on research undertaken in two Year Three classrooms, in which children were invited to share photographs in a workshop to facilitate the sharing and creation of narratives. Motivated by the idea that elevating children¿s status to constructors of knowledge is essential for a pedagogy of authentic listening, understandings of childhood are challenged in relation to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the tension between self-determination and the protection of children. The book will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners in the areas of education, early childhood studies, sociology of childhood, social work, children¿s rights and educational management.

Der Band stellt aktuelle Diskurse zu Ganztagsbildung mit Blick auf die Kooperation von Jugendhilfe und Schule dar und gibt Impulse zur theoretischen und empirischen Vergewisserung kooperativer Praxis. In den Blick genommen werden das Zusammenwirken verschiedener Bildungsinstitutionen und Akteur*innen, unterschiedliche Bildungsverständnisse sowie differente Erwartungen an Ganztagsbildung. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich sowohl mit etablierten Formen der Zusammenarbeit über das Handlungsfeld Schulsozialarbeit, Ganztagsbetreuung und Jugendsozialarbeit, als auch mit neuen Perspektiven und Entwicklungen, u. a. im Hinblick auf Fragen von Kinderschutz, Beratung, Bildungslandschaften oder Demokratiebildung. Der Rechtsanspruch auf Ganztagsbetreuung im Grundschulalter ab 2026 unterstreicht die Aktualität der behandelten Thematik.

Gennem 25 år har Jette Norup Würtz arbejdet i AC Børnehjælp, der nu hedder DIA, og har i den forbindelse besøgt mange af verdens fattigste lande med et særligt fokus på børn, unge og familier i udsatte positioner.Jette fortæller om personlige møder med børn og familier og om vilkår, der ofte bliver til generaliseringer i tv-spots eller artikler. Ofte har Jette hørt fra udenforstående, at det kan være svært at føle nærværet til de projekter, der laves landsdækkende indsamlinger til.Skæbnerne er mange, udfordringerne er store, men samtidig er det vigtigt at finde mulighederne ved hjælp af en støttende håndsrækning fra en organisation, hvad enten den er stor eller lille. Det er betydningen af denne lille håndsrækning, som bliver fortalt med den nysgerriges blik, forsøget på at finde balance, når der ved selvsyn er ubalance i livets vægtskål.I 2018 skiftede Jette spor jobmæssigt. Virkelighedens historier, som er blevet fortalt og oplevet sammen med børnene, har bidt sig fast. Alverdens børnestemmer trænger sig på og vil med denne bog nå bredere ud i verden. Det nytter at hjælpe.

La responsabilité sociale en santé fait actuellement l¿objet d¿une attention croissante à travers le monde, et est souvent présentée comme l¿une des réponses nécessaires à l¿amélioration des systèmes de santé dans les pays développés. L¿absence de données africaines à ce sujet a motivé la réalisation d¿une enquête, qui avait pour but d¿évaluer la responsabilité sociale des hôpitaux publics africains en termes de prise charge de la maladie rénale, et d¿explorer les facteurs qui l¿influencent en se basant sur les perceptions des patients et des médecins. Le présent travail a mis en exergue le rôle crucial de la gouvernance et de la gestion hospitalières, en impliquant les différentes parties prenantes, dans l¿amélioration de la responsabilité sociale des hôpitaux, et par conséquent l¿offre de soins.

Das Erkenntnisinteresse der qualitativen Forschungsarbeit liegt im Praxisfeld der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe und fokussiert sich dort auf den Bereich der Hilfen zur Erziehung. Von Interesse sind die Spuren, die die individuelle Bearbeitung von Kernproblemen durch professionelle Akteur:innen im sonderpädagogischen Hort in den Biographien der Adressat:innen hinterlässt. Der multiperspektivischen Wirklichkeit wird im besonderen Rechnung getragen, in dem aus den drei Perspektiven Institution, Adressat:in und professionelle Akteur:innen auf die Wirkung der Hilfen zu Erziehung geblickt wird und die Ergebnisse mit Hilfe einer Mehrebenenanalyse miteinander in Beziehung gesetzt werden. Aus den Merkmalen wird ein Kontinuum entwickelt, welches den "charismatischen Arbeitsstil" beispielhaft skizziert.

Die Eingewöhnung in den Kindergarten kann eine aufregende, aber auch herausfordernde Zeit für Eltern und Kinder sein. Dieses Buch bietet eine professionelle Unterstützung für Eltern während und vor der Eingewöhnungsphase, um noch einmal nachzulesen, worauf es in dieser Zeit wirklich ankommt.Kurz und knapp erklärt dieses Buch die wichtigsten Aspekte der Eingewöhnung und geht dabei ehrlich und offen mit dem Thema um. Von der Vorbereitung auf den Kindergarten bis hin zur Begleitung des Kindes während der Eingewöhnung, bietet dieses Buch wertvolle Tipps und praktische Ratschläge.