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.

代间关系危机日益加深，儿童和青少年的心理健康和福祉日益受到关注，这可能与儿童、青少年和其他几代人之间的日常互动有关，或表现在这些互动中。我们团队中的年轻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，给予和获得尊重的经历，以及经历和表现出不尊重的经历，将取决于个人和他们的环境：例如，一组行为可能是故意不尊重（e.g.to一名教师），以获得同龄人的尊重（通过抗议感知到的侮辱）。儿童可能会将成年人的某些行为解释为不尊重，例如禁止集体进入商店，而其他人则可能认为这是必要的商业做法。许多成年人希望得到他人的尊重，但并不总是以他们理解的方式或理由。尊重很少是与不尊重相关的研究的主要焦点，而关于不尊重的研究更是凤毛麟角。没有一个国家是以共同研究人员的身份参与的。此外，对于这个项目来说，重要的是，尊重和不尊重已经被成年人理论化，定义和研究，通常是成年人作为受访者。在现有的研究中，成年人报告说，他们缺乏对父母的尊重，而父母在被问及与成年人和其他人的关系时，往往会说他们缺乏对父母的尊重。我们从一开始就与父母的顾问小组合作，以确定研究的重点和设计（这本身就是一种激进的研究方法），而且，我们认为这种方法在儿童研究中具有高度创新性，将继续与他们和一个由年幼儿童组成的咨询小组合作，发展他们自己的尊重和不尊重理论，这将指导研究;有助于决定研究什么以及如何进行研究;并了解、公布、分发和交流调查结果。我们将使用各种方法，使学生能够发展一个尊重的理论，并捕捉学生的观点，态度和尊重/不尊重/缺乏尊重的生活经验。这些措施包括：对一大群儿童进行有代表性的调查;与“对话中心”的儿童群体进行参与性研究，并与可能以独特方式受到尊重/不尊重的儿童进行个人叙述式访谈，例如残疾儿童、有护理或刑事司法系统经验的儿童、女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和变性者+儿童、少数民族儿童以及患有慢性和隐性健康问题的儿童。在项目的每一个阶段，我们都将与联合研究人员合作，确定问题的内容、方式，以及如何理解、公开和利用研究结果来改善联合研究人员的经验。该研究将以北方爱尔兰为基地，使我们能够利用我们广泛的网络与政府、公共和志愿部门的关键利益相关者进行合作。我们将连接到重要的成年人和决策者从各种领域连接到生活，包括教育，社会和医疗保健，交通和企业-由我们的年轻的合作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撰写的尊重和不尊重理论来开辟新天地。它还将尝试新的方法，并挑战现有的关于儿童如何理解和体验尊重的假设。调查结果将为地方政府的政策和专业实践提供信息，以期改善残疾人与同龄人和成年人之间的关系。此外，我们还将与儿童和成人利益相关者合作，确定展示这些发现并使其具有影响力的最有效方式，并将以创新，创造性的代际展示来完成该项目。