Contemporary Children Research Articles

زواج القاصرات المعاصر وبيان الاختلاف عليه في ضوء الشريعة الإسلامية

Contemporary child marriage has become a noticeable phenomenon in recent times, spreading rapidly and extensively. This research aims to clarify the concept of minors and elucidate the reasons and motivations behind the prevalent phenomenon of child marriage, both in the past and in contemporary society. The study reveals that there are social, economic, health, and psychological factors contributing to this issue. The research adopted a descriptive and inductive approach to investigate the reasons for marrying minors, based on an analysis of books and studies that discussed the motives for such marriages and the legal rulings on marrying minors. Additionally, the negative consequences of child marriages were examined. The research yielded findings, including the definition of a minor as someone who has not reached the legal age for marriage and is incapable of assuming marital responsibilities. The economic circumstances of the guardian sometimes force them to marry off their daughters to avoid the financial burden. Some parents resort to informal marriages, which the law prohibits, thus denying minors their rights. The study also highlighted the physical and mental health risks associated with child marriages, such as weakened immunity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other health issues. Research has also documented cases of minors dying within a year of marriage. In conclusion, this research contributes to clarifying the concept of minors, uncovering the reasons for child marriages, and explaining the legal rulings regarding such unions.

Construction of AR and VR Children's Film and Television Education Curriculum System Based on 5G

Film and television (including digital media art) will be explicitly included in the Chinese Compulsory Education Curriculum Plan and Curriculum Standards in 2022, according to the Chinas Ministry of Education. With the advancement of science and technology, significant changes in film and television production and communication have occurred.5G, AR, and VR technologies are reshaping film and television language expression techniques, presentation forms, and viewing methods. As a result, it is necessary to combine the current development trend of film and television technology, comprehend the science and technology of film and television, master the new expression of film and television language, cultivate children's media literacy as the goal, and build the curriculum system of contemporary children's film and television education, in order to promote the implementation of the curriculum plan and curriculum standards of film and television education.

Modern children’s choral art of Ukraine and China: presentation of masters’ experience (Serhiy Prokopov – Yang Hongnian)

Statement of the problem. The information space of the 21st century, including the cultural and educational areas, is characterized by tendencies towards synthesis and integration. So, modern children’s choral art of Ukraine and China appears as an art of cultural dialogue, in the process of which the spiritual values of a new type of a person are forming. The relevance of this study is determined by the need for analytical comparison and comprehension in the scientific discourse of the principles of creative activity of the leading representatives of the both cultural traditions in the field of children’s choral art. Despite the wide range of scientific works in the sphere of choral art, both, the historical and theoretical basis of contemporary children’s choral pedagogy in Ukraine and China, and its leading trends in nowadays remains relevant and requires special research. Objectives, methods and novelty of the research. The purpose of the article is to highlight the scientific, practical and pedagogical achievements of outstanding masters of modern children’s choral art of Ukraine and China, Serhiy Prokopov and Yang Hongnian. For the first time a comparative analysis of the scientific-practical and pedagogical experience of these outstanding masters is represented. The methods оf analysis and systematization, comparative, historical and culturological approach were attracted to research. Research results and conclusion. Summarizing the results of the analysis of the scientific, practical and pedagogical works of two famous masters of children’s choral performance of Ukraine and China, Serhiy Prokopov and Yang Hongnian, we noted that their methodological approaches are focused on the development of individual vocal and choral skills (singing arrangement, singing breathing, attack of sound, sound management, diction, articulation, timbre of the voice); on the formation of musical-auditory ideas (harmonic sense, coordination of hearing and voice, etc.); mastering the skills of choral singing (singing in unison and polyphony, rhythmic synchronicity, ensemble diction, etc.); on the development of emotional and figurative perception and thinking in children. Our research gives reasons to assert that the theoretical principles of two well-known choral conductors of modern children’s choral performances in Ukraine and China are based on the same priority approaches to choral pedagogy: humanistic, person-oriented, multicultural, comparative, systemic. The main factors that should be taken into account in the process of comparative analysis of the basic theoretical concepts of the both masters are the specifics of their national mentality determined by sociohistorical, cultural and educational conditions.

Postmemory of Stalinist Repressions and the Siege of Leningrad in Olga Lavrentieva’s Graphic Novel Survilo (2019)

AbstractOlga Lavrentieva’s graphic novelSurvilo, published in Russia in 2019, and since then translated into a few languages, is one of the recent examples of harnessing the comic form to overcome historical taboo in contemporary children’s and young adult literature. The polemic around accounts of the Stalinist repressions in the 1930s and the period of the Leningrad siege that arose a few years ago in Russia’s cultural space shows that the quest for the truth about the past continues to haunt successive generations of Russian authors. Lavrentieva spins a narrative based on the history of her own family and, specifically, on the life of her grandmother, Valentina Survilo, whose childhood overlapped with the Great Terror with its atrocities and her adolescence with the blockade of Leningrad. The author of this article argues that although she writes about Stalinist atrocities, in her fragmented biographical graphic novel, Lavrentieva does not deconstruct the Soviet myth of the Great Patriotic War but weaves a narrative based on a particular version of postmemory. The author uses the framework of memory studies and focuses predominately on the textual layer of Survilo; however, the black-and-white vignettes composed by Lavrentieva add up to a formally and thematically thought-provoking book.

THE LEGACY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE TRADITIONAL PAINTING IN A MODERN PICTURE BOOK

Children’s picture books have developed relatively maturely in Western countries, and Chinese publishing houses have chosen imported children’s picture books as their first choice for a long time. Regarding the development of the domestic children’s picture book market, due to the short development time, there are currently only a handful of children’s books that truly integrate Chinese traditional culture, and the connotation has not been truly inherited and popularized, and the unique historical meaning has not been truly reflected in the market. resonate in children’s lives. As far as image design is concerned, due to the influence of foreign children’s picture books, domestic children’s picture books mostly focus on natural expressions of objects and lack deep cultural value and spiritual connotation. As a result, our country’s children’s picture books lack national characteristics. Traditional Chinese painting is part of Chinese cultural heritage and has a unique form of artistic expression that can embody the connotation of Chinese humanistic spirit. The integration of traditional painting elements with modern children’s picture book design not only shows the diversity of the children’s world, but also reflects the cultural characteristics and artistic styles of different nations. When applying Chinese painting elements in the design of children’s picture books, whether in terms of formal language or philosophical spirit, blind application must be avoided. Modern children’s picture book design concepts should be followed, scientifically absorbed and flexibly applied Chinese painting elements to create deep and refreshing works for readers. A children’s picture book with Chinese elements. When creating picture books, we must also combine them with current science and technology to make picture books more nationally distinctive and modern in design, in line with the development of today’s diversified era. Based on the unique artistic characteristics of traditional Chinese painting — composition, pen and ink, color, artistic conception and other elements, this article discusses its application and embodiment in contemporary children’s picture books. It conducts research and analysis on the works of outstanding contemporary picture book creators, and summarizes The application methods and principles of traditional Chinese painting elements in the design of children’s picture books, and explore the new development of traditional painting elements in the creation of children’s picture books.

Effect of art painting on preschool children with from psychological anxiety the perspective of art psychology

BackgroundIn recent years, the psychological anxiety problem among preschool children has received widespread attention from parents, educators, and researchers. From learning pressure to social interaction with peers, these factors can all lead to the accumulation of psychological stress, resulting in psychological anxiety. Art painting is seen as a way to facilitate individual emotional expression and psychological adjustment, providing children with a stress-free environment where they can freely express their emotions and thoughts without worrying about being judged or misunderstood. The research aims to explore the impact of art painting on the psychological anxiety of contemporary preschool children from the perspective of art psychology.Subjects and Methods The study randomly divided 88 preschool children with psychological anxiety into an experimental group and a control group. The control group received routine intervention, while the experimental group received art painting from the perspective of art psychology on the basis of routine intervention. The study used the Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS) to assess the level of psychological anxiety in preschool children.ResultsAfter the experiment, the psychological anxiety scores of the experimental group children were significantly lower than before (P<0.05), and meanwhile significantly lower than the psychological anxiety scores of the control group students after the experiment (P<0.05).ConclusionsFrom the perspective of art psychology, art painting has a positive and positive effect on alleviating psychological anxiety in preschool children, and can serve as an auxiliary means of intervention.AcknowledgementResearch results of the Teaching Reform Research project of Colleges and Universities in Hunan Province, (Hunan Jiaotong (2021) No. 298:HNJG-2021-0200).

해방기 아동 잡지의 문학장 형성과 담론 연구

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the plan pursued by contemporary children's literature through various discourses of children's magazines in South and North Korea during the liberation period. The children's magazines of South and North Korea during the liberation period reveal education, society, literature, and politics as a literary space, and each children's magazine develops various theories and contents of the work.The children's magazines of South and North Korea during the liberation period allowed children of the time to expand their consciousness through 'education', 'culture', 'Hangeul', 'children's writing', and 'propaganda'. This is an important point to consider as a stepping stone for the formation of a new nation. This study presents an important point of insight into social problems, culture, and literature through various discourses of children's magazines in South and North Korea during the liberation period.

Reimagining the Past to Construct the Future: Nostalgia and Netflix’s She-Ra

Abstract Netflix’s She-Ra (2018) is an example of how nostalgia-based children’s culture uses speculative fiction to reimagine the past while commenting on the present. The new She-Ra papers over shortcomings in the original show, rewriting adults’ memories of the character. She-Ra, and shows like it, allow adults to experience nostalgia for childhood media and toys by rewriting potentially unpleasant aspects of these thirty-year-old narratives. Though She-Ra uses characters and imagery familiar to parents, the show changes fundamental elements of the original to reflect contemporary social justice concerns, using its science-fiction elements to access political commentary including environmental degradation and coalition building. I will read the television show alongside recently released merchandise which depicts both the new and the 1985 versions of the character. Accessing the new and original versions of the character allows parents to both connect to contemporary children’s programming and reimagine their own childhoods through a contemporary social justice lens. As major producers of children’s culture such as Disney and Netflix embrace the nostalgia trend, scholars should pay careful attention to how these remakes as well as their marketing campaigns treat the source material. Even if the updated films and television shows are more self-aware, nostalgia-based marketing may allow adults to uncritically embrace and endorse the original content of works created in the 1980s that treat issues of race, gender, and sexuality in ways that are inconsistent with current cultural norms. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power argues against this embrace of nostalgic forms, even while using nostalgia to draw in a millennial audience.

(Not So) Minor Encounters: Little Amal from The Jungle to The Walk

Abstract: How do we comprehend the scale of contemporary Syrian child displacement, much less represent it theatrically—and ethically? In this essay, I explore how the Good Chance Theatre has continued to try, through the evolving figure of Little Amal, an unaccompanied Syrian girl who appears in two transnational performances, The Jungle (2017) and The Walk (2021). Drawing on interviews with directors, actors, and puppeteers, I argue that both productions renegotiate the adoptive gaze Western European and North American audiences usually impose upon Syrian refugee children. The eight locally cast child actors that played Little Amal across The Jungle ’s original tour produced a Brechtian doubling of performances that complicated violent spectatorial relations, while The Walk ’s twelve-foot-tall puppet of Little Amal resists adoptive logics’ reliance on humanitarian tropes of liminality and minority. Complicating hegemonic binaries of insider/outsider, seeing/being seen, and even life/death, The Jungle and The Walk invite Euro-American onlookers to reconsider their relation to the refugee ‘crisis,’ undercut the individual logic of adoption, and call for a collective response. Little Amal’s (not so) minor encounters, I find, lay bare the inherent theatricality of the current refugee rights paradigm as applied to displaced peoples of all ages. Reclaiming the figurative and embodied potential of the Syrian child refugee, Amal reveals mass displacement to be a shared human phenomenon: already lived by so many, and looming for all.

“Warming the house”: Children and animals “doing family”

In this article, we explore the common worlds of children and companion animals, and ask how animals are contributing to the making of contemporary families, and of childhood therein. Departing from D. H. Morgan’s conceptualisation of family practices, we explore the possibility of extending this concept to children-animals relationships and ask whether it is possible to talk about children-animal practices. We draw on empirical data from 48 interviews conducted within 24 Portuguese families, with children aged 8–14, and living with at least one dog and/or one cat for six months or more. We propose that animals are actively doing family, and contributing to the making of contemporary childhood and parenthood. We conclude that there is theoretical and methodological potential in developing the concept of children-animal practices.

Opowiadanie świata. Dorośli w roli pośredników lektury współczesnej książki dla dzieci

The aim of the article is to describe the contemporary function and role of an adult reader as a mediator in a young child’s contact with a book. The specificity of children’s literature in the context of literary communication and contemporary education was discussed. It shows what competencies are required from an adult to read picture books and stories about difficult situations in a child’s life together with a child. Selected literary examples illustrate that books for the youngest require joint dialogical reading, and the adult most often assumes the function of a translator of difficult words, the depicted world, as well as the cultural, social, or political context. The article is of a review nature, the clues collected in it indicate the need for conscious and competent mediation in contemporary children’s reading by teachers, parents, and other adult participants of literary education.

Odtwarzanie wzorów konstrukcyjnych przez dzieci 4-, 5- i 6-letnie 70 lat temu i dzisiaj. Porównanie wyników badań

Introduction: Recreation of construction patterns is an important form of supporting students’ cognitive development. Unfortunately, a lack of research makes it impossible to characterise the skills of contemporary children. Research Aim: To establish the current ability of pre-school children to reproduce constructions and to determine how these skills have changed in relation to research conducted 70 years earlier (Popiel, 1955–1957). Method: In order to compare the results of the research conducted, the tools were recreated and the method of the research conducted 70 years earlier was repeated. Seven finished constructions were presented to the children and the method of recreating them was recorded. The description included the method of construction and the correctness of the reconstructed construction. Results: The level of reproduction of the constructions is similar. However, modern children are better at recreating more difficult constructions. The small number of subjects limits the generalising power of the results of the study. Conclusions: The results of the study shed some light on children’s constructional abilities. They indicate that the situation of recreating constructions can be used as a form of supporting children’s mental development. The differences in the results of the studies indicate that caution should be exercised in citing research findings on the construction skills of children living many years earlier. Research is needed to explore these issues in more depth.

REVISING FAIRY TALES FOR CHILDREN: PATRICK NESS’S A MONSTER CALLS AND TERRY PRATCHETT’S THE WEE FREE MEN

Manlove, and Andrew O’Malley, the first part of the paper historicizes the relatively recent cultural connection of children and fairy tales, specifically, the mobilization of fairy tales as vehicles for the lessons directed at the young. Against this background, in the second part of the paper, two contemporary children’s fantasy novels, Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men (2003) and Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls (2011), are examined. The discussion of the two novels focuses on their critical attitudes towards classic fairy tales and the lessons aimed at children, which range from the promotion of unquestioning obedience and patriarchal gender stereotypes, to the normalization of social stratification and the assumption of a happy end. Pratchett and Ness, however, do not merely expose the problematic instructions of classic fairy tales; as twenty-first century fantasy and children’s books authors, they also write new ones. A Monster Calls and The Wee Free Men thus both subvert and appropriate the didactic aspects of the genre, in order to educate their (young) readers on the crucial matters of life, death, grief, justice, and duty.

Art and Storytelling on the Streets: The Council on Interracial Books for Children’s Use of African American Children’s Literature

From 1970 until 1974, the Council on Interracial Children’s Books (CIBC) ran the Arts and Storytelling in the Streets program throughout New York City. This program involved African American and Puerto Rican artists and storytellers bringing children’s literature directly to children in the streets. This occurred amid a rise in African American children’s literature and educational upheavals in the city as local communities demanded oversight of their schools. Originating in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district in New York City, the Arts and Storytelling on the Streets program helps to underscore the interrelation between African American children’s literature and educational activism. This article examines how storytelling sessions run by authors and illustrators became extensions of African American children’s literature and educational activism in the city as Black American children’s books became key tools in a fight for a more representative and relevant education. Storytelling teams hoped to use African American children’s literature to help engage children in reading and provide a positive association with literature among local children. The Art and Storytelling program mirrored ideas and themes within African American children’s literature including Black pride, community strength, and resisting white supremacy. The program also became a key extension of the literature as the locations, storytellers, and the audiences all helped to expand upon the impact and many meanings inherent in contemporary African American children’s literature.

Ролевое экспериментирование подростков в контексте идей Л.С. Выготского: деятельностная технология «Мультимедиа-театр»

<p>The article is devoted to the elaboration of a new model of drama for adolescents — “Digital Storytelling Theater”. The model is based on the idea that the leading activity of adolescence is represented by experimenting with roles, in the framework of which adolescents acquire social roles as a new system of cultural signs. “Digital Storytelling Theater” allows to create conditions for adolescents’ experimenting with social and psychological objects (roles, positions, relationships etc.) In this kind of drama adolescents do not only play out roles according to a given scenario but participate in a palette of activities while working on a performance. The elaborated model of drama activity allows to construct the zone of proximal development for adolescents due to two supplementary processes: interiorization and exteriorization. Interiorization is connected with adolescents’ acquiring new cultural signs — various social roles and patterns of role behavior. Exteriorization presupposes revealing — “bringing out on the stage” — role contradictions and conflicts, which are profoundly linked with adolescent crisis and to a large extent determine the way how it occurs. The model was elaborated on the basis of the Center for Interdisciplinary research on Contemporary Childhood of MSUPE in 2019-2022 and was tested in 3 different schools in Moscow and in Moscow Region with the participation of 336 adolescents aged from 13 to 15 years.</p>

Looking Through the Hourglass: The Importance of Our Words and Actions in Contemporary Child Psychoanalysis

ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between our child analytic theories and what we say to the children with whom we work. This is a complicated relationship, one that involves the analyst’s conscious and unconscious ideas, formulations, and emotional reactions. This paper explores the complexities and vicissitudes of this relationship, and encourages an approach to intervention that is direct, simple, respectful, and at times focused on difficult aspects of the child’s intrapsychic landscape.

Now you see them, now you don’t: Professional recognition of specialist professionals working with Deaf British Sign Language parents in child safeguarding

This paper concerns parenting assessments which are integral to child-safeguarding professional processes in England, and which involve Deaf parents whose primary language is British Sign Language (BSL). In an under-researched area of social work, the research aim was to contribute to the existing literature by eliciting the practice wisdom of specialist professionals. Specifically, it draws upon their linguistic and cultural knowledge of the Deaf community when they are involved in parenting assessments with Deaf parents who are subject to safeguarding concerns. Data about these professionals’ actual experiences of navigating Deaf cultural-competency in contemporary child protection practices were collected through seven video-recorded, semi-structured interviews conducted in BSL. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis, data were analysed in their source language (BSL). This article focusses on one key theme, termed ‘Professional Recognition’, which incorporates a) the identification of specialist roles and b) the impact of referral processes and protocols on assessment outcomes. The findings highlight participants’ perspectives on the benefits and disadvantages of their specialist role in this context. Although their brokerage skills, cultural competence, linguistic fluency and specialist knowledge of the Deaf community are highly regarded and valued by some colleagues, there is insufficient recognition of their existence by the majority. Secondly, participants are concerned by the inefficiency and inconsistency of the referral processes and protocols which they consider have adverse effects on assessment outcomes, and consequently the parents involved. The BSL translation of this article is available in the supplementary material .

Страхи современных дошкольников в представлении родителей: результаты эмпирического исследования

<p>The article focuses on the results of an empirical study of preschoolers’ fears through the eyes of their parents. The research was conducted on the basis of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Contemporary Childhood in MSUPE in November 2022 – February 2023. Research methods included a questionnaire for parents of preschoolers elaborated by the research group and “Method of Regulating Fears and Anxiety in Children” by T. Rudskaya. 366 parents of preschoolers from different regions of the Russian Federation took part in the survey. The research provides information about the peculiarities of fears in contemporary Russian preschoolers, as well as on the association between children’s fears and such aspects of upbringing strategies as parents’ reactions to children’s fears and children’s “bad” behavior. In general, the empirical data testifies, that preschoolers’ fears are profoundly connected with the quality of parent-child interactions, which agrees with the results of Russian and foreign researchers.</p>

The Toy Brick as a Communicative Device for Amplifying Children’s Voices in Research

The Toy Brick as a Communicative Device for Amplifying Children’s Voices in Research

Novel Didactics? Defoe’s Legacy in the Contemporary Children’s Robinsonade

Abstract The contemporary children’s robinsonade exemplifies an amalgamation of several centuries worth of intertexts, visible not only in the texts themselves but also in their audiences. In addition to adapting narrative elements, such as the shipwreck or the encounter with Friday, the narrative intent of didacticism spans over centuries, emulating ideologies of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, or twenty-first-century cultures. By utilising adaptation theory, it is possible to consider the Crusoe story as an interpretively doubled narrative of didacticism and to examine the emergence of the children’s robinsonade through the reception of eighteenth- and twenty-first-century audiences. In comparing the reception of early robinsonades and their narrative structures with the contemporary example of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, I aim to show the relation between the early reception of Defoe’s work and contemporary adaptations as parts of the didactic legacy of Robinson Crusoe.