RADICAL: Respect and Disrespect in Children's and Adolescents' Lives

激进：儿童和青少年生活中的尊重与不尊重

• 批准号: ES/X007588/1
• 负责人: Siobhán McAlister
• 金额: $ 54.58万
• 依托单位: Queen's University Belfast
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX007588%2F1
• 关键词: RADICAL; Respect; Disrespect; Children; Adolescents

There is a deepening crisis in intergenerational relationships which, alongside a growing concern about children and young people's (CYP) mental health and well-being, may be linked to, or manifest in, everyday interactions between CYP, their peers and other generations. The young co-researchers in our team have linked these to issues of 'respect', 'disrespect' and/or 'lack of respect'. Experiences of giving and getting respect, and experiencing and showing disrespect, will depend, of course, on individual CYP and their circumstances: one set of behaviours may, for example, be a deliberate attempt to be disrespectful (e.g.to a teacher) in order to gain respect of peers (by protesting against a perceived indignity). CYP may interpret certain behaviours of adults, such as bans on entering shops in groups as disrespectful, while others might see this as a necessary business practice. Many adults expect to have the respect of CYP, but not always in ways or for reasons that are understood by them.Respect is rarely the primary focus of research related to CYP, and research on disrespect is rarer still. In none are CYP involved as co-researchers. Further, and significantly for this project, respect and disrespect have been theorised, defined and researched by adults, often with adults as respondents. In existing research, adults report a lack of respect shown by CYP, and CYP, when asked about their relationships with adults and others, often comment on a lack of respect shown to them.We have worked from the outset with an advisory group of CYP to determine the focus and design of the research (a radical approach to research in itself), and, in an approach that we consider to be highly innovative in childhood research, will continue to work with them and an advisory group of younger children to develop their own theories of respect and disrespect which will guide the study; contribute to decisions about what will be researched and how it will be carried out; and to understand, publish, distribute and communicate the findings. We will use a variety of methods to enable CYP to develop a theory of respect, and to capture CYP's views, attitudes and lived experience of respect/disrespect/lack of respect. These will include: conducting representative surveys of a large group of children; undertaking participatory research with groups of CYP in 'dialogue hubs', as well as individual narrative interviews with CYP who may experience respect/disrespect in distinctive ways, for example, those with disabilities; who have experience of care or the criminal justice system; who are LGBT+; ethnic minorities; and who have chronic and invisible health conditions. At every stage of the project, we will work with CYP as co-researchers to determine what is asked, how it is asked, and how the findings should be understood, made public and used to improve CYP's experiences.The study will be based in Northern Ireland, enabling us to harness our extensive networks to collaborate throughout with key stakeholders in government and across the public and voluntary sectors. We will connect CYP to significant adults and decision-makers from a variety of spheres connected to CYP lives including education, social and health care, transport and businesses - groups identified as target stakeholders by our young co-researchers. The approach will break new ground by contributing a child-authored theory of respect and disrespect. It will also trial new methods, and challenge existing assumptions about how children understand and experience respect. The findings will inform local government policy and professional practice with a view to generating improved relationships among CYP and their peers and the adults in their lives. We will, in addition, work with CYP and adult stakeholders to determine the most effective ways of presenting those findings and making them impactful, and will complete the project with an innovative, creative intergenerational showcase.

代际关系中存在着日益加深的危机，随着人们对儿童和青少年 (CYP) 心理健康和福祉的日益关注，这种危机可能与 CYP、同龄人和其他代际人之间的日常互动有关或体现在其中。我们团队中年轻的联合研究人员将这些与“尊重”、“不尊重”和/或“缺乏尊重”问题联系起来。当然，给予和获得尊重、经历和表现出不尊重的经历将取决于个人 CYP 及其情况：例如，一组行为可能是故意不尊重（例如对老师），以赢得同伴的尊重（通过抗议被认为的侮辱）。 CYP 可能会将成年人的某些行为（例如禁止集体进入商店）解释为不尊重，而其他人可能会认为这是一种必要的商业行为。许多成年人期望得到 CYP 的尊重，但并不总是以他们理解的方式或原因。尊重很少成为 CYP 相关研究的主要焦点，而关于不尊重的研究则更加罕见。 CYP 没有作为联合研究人员参与其中。此外，对这个项目来说意义重大的是，尊重和不尊重已经由成年人理论化、定义和研究，通常以成年人作为受访者。在现有的研究中，成年人报告 CYP 缺乏尊重，而当被问及他们与成年人和其他人的关系时，CYP 经常评论缺乏对他们的尊重。我们从一开始就与 CYP 的顾问小组合作，确定研究的重点和设计（本身就是一种激进的研究方法），并且，我们认为这种方法在儿童研究中具有高度创新性，将继续与他们和年幼儿童的顾问小组合作，发展他们自己的尊重理论 和不尊重将指导研究；有助于决定研究内容以及如何进行；并理解、发布、分发和交流调查结果。我们将使用多种方法使CYP发展出尊重理论，并捕捉CYP的观点、态度以及尊重/不尊重/缺乏尊重的生活经验。这些措施包括： 对一大群儿童进行代表性调查；在“对话中心”与 CYP 团体进行参与式研究，并对可能以独特方式经历尊重/不尊重的 CYP 进行个人叙述性访谈，例如残疾人；有护理或刑事司法系统经验的人；谁是 LGBT+；少数民族；以及患有慢性和隐形健康问题的人。在项目的每个阶段，我们将作为联合研究人员与 CYP 合作，确定提出的问题、如何提出问题，以及如何理解、公开和使用研究结果来改善 CYP 的经验。该研究将在北爱尔兰进行，使我们能够利用我们广泛的网络与政府以及公共和志愿部门的主要利益相关者进行合作。我们将把 CYP 与来自与 CYP 生活相关的各个领域的重要成年人和决策者联系起来，包括教育、社会和医疗保健、交通和企业——被我们年轻的联合研究人员确定为目标利益相关者的群体。该方法将通过贡献儿童创作的尊重和不尊重理论来开辟新天地。它还将尝试新的方法，并挑战关于儿童如何理解和体验尊重的现有假设。研究结果将为当地政府的政策和专业实践提供信息，以改善 CYP 与其同龄人和生活中的成年人之间的关系。此外，我们将与 CYP 和成人利益相关者合作，确定展示这些发现并使其产生影响力的最有效方式，并将通过创新、创意的代际展示来完成该项目。