Cameron, Claire;
Hauari, Hanan;
Hollingworth, Katie;
O′Brien, Margaret;
Whitaker, Lydia;
(2022)
Young children's lives in East London through the pandemic: Relationships, activities and social worlds.
Children & Society
10.1111/chso.12652.
(In press).
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Abstract
Children's lives in the Covid-19 pandemic were subject to unparalleled restrictions on and disruption to their daily lives. This paper explores the day-to-day relational, social participation and activities of young children in one East London borough in early 2021, as told through qualitative interviews with their parents. We adopt a social-ecological model of children's development, a child rights focused understanding of well-being, underpinned by an agentic view of both parents and children. We find that for some children, parents had additional time to spend with them and new activities were possible. But for others, particularly those living ‘compressed lives’ in low-income households and over-crowded accommodation with no outside space of their own, all three aspects—relational, participatory and activities—were significantly diminished.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Young children's lives in East London through the pandemic: Relationships, activities and social worlds |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/chso.12652 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12652 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Children & Society published by National Children's Bureau and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | activities, compressed lives, Covid-19 pandemic, kin, relationships, young children |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education 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 - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10158838 |
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