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Children’s Understandings of Well-Being in Global and Local Contexts: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations for a Multinational Qualitative Study

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  • Tobia Fattore

    (Macquarie University)

  • Susann Fegter

    (Technische Universität Berlin)

  • Christine Hunner-Kreisel

    (Universität Vechta)

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Research on child well-being is an expanding international, inter- and trans-disciplinary field of research that has developed significantly within the last decades. While the achievements in the field are immense, the developments raise new challenges for the child well-being research field. In this paper three major challenges will be highlighted and discussed: Firstly, challenges regarding how to define well-being theoretically, secondly; challenges associated with integrating children’s perspectives in research; and thirdly, challenges of engaging with processes of globalisation and trans-national contexts which impact on children’s well-being and how we engage with these processes as researchers. We then outline a comparative qualitative study “Children’s understandings of well-being - global and local contexts” that attempts to respond to these challenges: by starting with children’s constructions of well-being as a basis for analysing the normativity of constructions of well-being; by explicitly accounting for the context in which these constructions are developed -embedding children’s perspectives within the social orders they are part of and contribute to; and by empirically analysing the relevance of multi-scalar contexts as social constructions for children’s understandings and experiences of well-being.

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  • Tobia Fattore & Susann Fegter & Christine Hunner-Kreisel, 2019. "Children’s Understandings of Well-Being in Global and Local Contexts: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations for a Multinational Qualitative Study," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 12(2), pages 385-407, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:chinre:v:12:y:2019:i:2:d:10.1007_s12187-018-9594-8
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