A New Approach for Investigating Children's Participation Rights in Early Childhood Education: Listening to Voices in Interaction for Participation (LViIP)

Cynthia Hicban; Maryanne Theobald; Julia Mascadri

doi:10.1163/15718182-32040003

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A New Approach for Investigating Children's Participation Rights in Early Childhood Education: Listening to Voices in Interaction for Participation (LViIP)

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A New Approach for Investigating Children's Participation Rights in Early Childhood Education: Listening to Voices in Interaction for Participation (LViIP)

Cynthia Hicban, Maryanne Theobald and Julia Mascadri

The International Journal of Children's Rights, Vol.32(4), pp.910-944

2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-32040003

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Abstract

Sociological methodology and research methods

children's participation rights

conversation analysis (CA)

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Lundy model

participation rights methodology

Article 12

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Research into children’s participation rights has largely focused on the challenges for early childhood educators to navigate children’s participation rights enactment. The aim of this article is to show how the enactments of children’s participation rights in an educational setting can be identified using a new approach, Listening to Voices in Interaction for Participation (LViIP). LViIP is based on Lundy’s (2007) conceptualisation of Article 12(1) and combines with conversation analysis (ca) to identify how rights enactment sequentially unfolds and how the interactants mobilise (or gatekeep) opportunities for children to have a say. A step-by-step worked example of LViIP shows in detail how participatory approaches by educators and children are built in early childhood education, thus demonstrating which interactional practices contribute towards the co-construction of children’s participation rights and how early childhood professionals can listen, be and do as duty-bearers of children’s rights in their daily practice.

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Title: A New Approach for Investigating Children's Participation Rights in Early Childhood Education: Listening to Voices in Interaction for Participation (LViIP)
Authors: Cynthia Hicban (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary Access
Maryanne Theobald - Queensland University of Technology
Julia Mascadri - Queensland University of Technology
Publication details: The International Journal of Children's Rights, Vol.32(4), pp.910-944
Publisher: Brill - Nijhoff
Date published: 2024
DOI: 10.1163/15718182-32040003
ISSN: 1571-8182; 0927-5568
Copyright note: Published with license by Koninklijke Brill bv
Organisation Unit: School of Education and Tertiary Access
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991087794902621
Output Type: Journal article

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