Cedar, L;
Coleman, A;
Haythorne, D;
Jones, P;
Mercieca, D;
Ramsden, E;
(2022)
Child agency and therapy in primary school.
Education 3-13
, 50
(4)
pp. 452-470.
10.1080/03004279.2022.2052231.
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Abstract
The article reports on, and analyses, qualitative research involving children’s therapy in two primary school contexts in England. It aims to explore the potentials of how agency as a concept can contribute to a challenge to existing theory, research and ways of working concerning therapy in primary school contexts. The article addresses how this challenge can be theorised: drawing on a critical review of how the fields of health, therapy, education and child rights connect to concepts of agency. Themes within this review include different disciplinary paradigms of childhood; how concepts of agency relate to those of child rights and voice; how a field such as therapy, created around concepts of welfare, can shift to acknowledge the presence of a child rights framework; and the complexities of child agency in therapy within primary school contexts. Data are included from the authors’ research projects that access children’s views of their therapy and that engages with them through a questionnaire, a member checking group and as co-researchers into their experiences of therapy. The analysis of the data reveals the challenges, potentials and advantages of recognising and listening to children as ‘active agents’ and ‘experts’ in relation to their therapy.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Child agency and therapy in primary school |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1080/03004279.2022.2052231 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2022.2052231 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way |
Keywords: | Agency, voice, child rights, therapy, drama therapy, arts therapy |
UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148249 |
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