"Through an action media methodology, various participatory, grassroots, and traditional media methods, such as role plays, movie screenings, and drawing, were used with eight HIV-positive children to empower them to collectively respond to better treatment adherence. The paper demonstrates how, thr
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ough a process of participatory methodologies, the young children developed a cricital consciousness about their lived experiences and were empowered to actively participate in decision making and their right to treatment." (Abstract)
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"We are very happy to publish the second edition of The World through Picture Books, enriched with sixteen new annotated lists. This new edition proves even more the very enthusiastic, skilled participation of librarians and the great success of this international programme. The programme deals with
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something we children’s librarians must never lose sight of, even if we are so busy with new technologies, budget restrictions, everyday work…: read children’s books and choose the best ones for our readers. And what does “best” mean? One thing it surely means is very good books from the readers’ own country and from as many other countries as possible… This is why, inspired by Kazuko Yoda’s request to our Committee for advice on the” top ten” picture books in Committee members’ countries, we launched “The World through Picture Books” programme in 2011. Librarians from fifty-two countries (or parts of countries) have made their choices which we publish here, with book presentations in the thirty-seven languages of publication, together with the English translation. Papers on picture books in several countries were presented at IFLA conferences in Helsinki, Singapore and Lyon and are on-line. Thanks to publishers’ generosity, two sets of touring book exhibitions were made, that have been shown in Finland, Japan, Korea, Italy, France, Reunion Island and Serbia. These collections are based in the National Libraries of France and Japan and are available to be booked by any country wishing to exhibit them." (Foreword)
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"The way you design your service can have a real impact on children and young people. The type of safeguards shown in this guide lead to immediate positive benefits (e.g. limiting exposure to inappropriate content) and longer-term effects (such as helping users to understand how to share their infor
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mation responsibly). But online safety is also critical to your platform’s future, and this guide will be particularly useful to: • protect the health of your brand, and reassure sponsors, advertisers and investors who all need to consider their own reputational risks; • implement the basics (and more) of safety policies and procedures before launching your service; • overhaul or strengthen existing user safeguards; • give confidence to both users and parents that you can manage safety risks; and • implement even tighter safety provisions for users under 13 years old." (Page 7)
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"Der Ausgangspunkt der medienpädagogischen Arbeit mit Kindern sollte ihr alltäglicher Mediengebrauch sein. Das medienpädagogische Angebot sollte sich dabei an den Interessen und Bedürfnissen der Kinder sowie an den altersbedingten Entwicklungsstufen orientieren. Das Buch richtet sich an alle, di
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e medienpädagogisch mit Kindern arbeiten wollen, in Kindertagesstätten, Schule und Hort sowie im außerschulischen Kontext. Als praktische Handreichung liefert das Buch im ersten Teil Ideen und Konzepte für die medienpädagogische Arbeit mit Kindern. Zur theoretischen Vertiefung werden im zweiten Teil die Grundlagen der medienpädagogischen Arbeit mit Kindern aus interdisziplinärer Sicht behandelt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"In Brazil, India and Kenya, a wide range of factors currently inhibit media from playing their full role in promoting awareness of child rights and in helping children realise their rights, says this report. Crucial issues identified in all three countries include lack of media coverage, inadequate
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professionalism among journalists, absence of children's voices in the public debate, and scarce coperation among the media and child rights advocates. For each country, a detailed chapter provides insights into the national media landscape, the child rights reporting practice (based on a content analysis), the "media perspective" (based on focus groups and interviews with media professionals), and the "civil society perspective" (based on focus groups and individual interviews). The report recommends creating more youth journalists by training young people to produce radio programmes; establishing incentives for journalists to specialise in child rights; improving networking among civil society organisations and media, and establishing and monitoring guidelines for reporting on child rights." (CAMECO Update 1-2015)
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"This paper explores the characteristics of the puppet which can be utilized to generate critical thinking and informed choices in a troubled society with reference to projects of historical and contemporary importance. As an animated performance object the puppet has an imagined life which enables
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an unusual freedom of expression so that controversial social and political ideas and conventions may be challenged. As a dual-natured performance object the puppet has an extraordinary license to criticize and mock by means of satire and parody. These qualities offer artists as activists remarkable opportunities to create entertainment aimed at enhancing social and political awareness and transformation while conscientising audiences at the same time." (Abstract)
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"The pioneering research process consisted of a review of relevant literature and in-depth interviews with 35 experts in the field connecting ICT4D with child-focused development, thus providing one of the most comprehensive overviews of the subject to date. The literature review focuses on the topi
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cs of extreme poverty, maternal and child health, nutrition, access to education, governance and accountability, and eParticipation, children and the internet. This provides a foundation for the eight analytical themes, which are grounded in the expert interviews with practitioners, policy makers and academics." (Executive summary)
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"This study investigated the role of the news media in the lives of Jewish and Arab children in Israel. A survey of 1657 children (ages 8–18), including analysis of open-ended questions, reveals that Jewish and Arab children in Israel live in two different worlds of news. They are exposed to diffe
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rent sources, stories, and interpretations; they take different messages from the news; and they hold to some degree different attitudes toward their roles in their lives. The news also seem to be more heavily integrated in the lives of the Jewish majority young people than it is in the lives of the Arab ones who treat it as more important to adults. If anything, it seems that the consumption of news serves mostly to contribute to separatism and further alienation of the minority Arab young people group from Israeli society." (Abstract)
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This report is based on a quantitative study of 3500 children, aged from 9 to 16 years in seven countries, and a qualitative study with 327 children and 230 adults (parents, teachers and educators) in nine European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain
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and Romania).
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"Why was there in the year 2000 a significant shift in the representation of families on Indian soap operas, from middle-class nuclear families with independent working women to upper-class joint families with only homemakers; and from milieus in which the religion of the characters was incidental,
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to milieus in which the Hindu religion and the performance of it was of central importance? I argue that a confluence of three forces enabled these shifts: (1) in marketing, a radical 'bottom-of-the-pyramid' approach; (2) in TV, the industry's attempts to find audiences in large numbers, mediated by the structure of the Indian audience measurement system; and (3) Hindu nationalists' focus on 'middle-class' audiences. In other words, I show how the very structure of the audience marketplace, especially the Indian television audience measurement system and shifts in marketing practices, abets the naturalization of particular political discourses within popular cultural forms, in this case Hindu nationalist discourse within television soap opera." (Abstract)
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"This guide is intended for use by international NGOs who want to use social media with children and the youth that they work with. This may include developing children’s skills and capacity, using social media as a development tool for a community project, providing access to technology, or offer
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ing social media as a communication tool between communities or between sponsors and sponsored children. The information here is particularly relevant to NGOs working with children and youth in developing countries with increasing use of social media and a need for organisations working with children to protect them in the online world. This guide reviews some of the main risks and presents a range of tools for combating them. Due to the multifaceted nature of some of these risks, this guide makes no claim to address all of them exhaustively." (Resourcecentre.savethechildren.net)
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"Welcome to the guide! The guide has been written to tell children and young people about sexual exploitation online. We hope you will find it interesting and useful." (Page 2)
"This report analyses the findings of a follow-up survey of child-related news contents, in newspapers with an aim to assess the coverage trend and its ethical standards. The survey monitored 10 national-level mainstream dailies over a year (January 2013 to December 2013). A secondary set of data fr
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om the arena of general news was analysed in order to explore the impacts of inappropriate news content on children. An introduction to the ethical concerns of news coverage in the context of children is provided. This follow-up content analysis takes into account the findings of previous two studies on the same subject. One was a baseline study monitoring media over three consecutive months in 2009. And the other, a follow-up study, covered six fortnights spread across a year (June 2010 to May 2011). This exercise began on the premise that journalists can play a strong role in ensuring the wellbeing of children and in minimising any potential harm to them from news consumption. The comprehensive trend finds a lack of planned focus and consequently, insufficient news coverage of children and their interests or affairs to be a key problem. Dominance of surface coverage of events and issues, inadequacies of reportorial enterprise and a dearth of in-depth coverage appear to be major problems. Insensitivity to the issues of portrayal and dignity, lack of thought to the safety and security of children in sensitive situations, and inconsideration of potential negative impacts of gruesome depictions on child consumers of news could also be noted in the general trend of coverage. However, between 2009 and 2013, a few positive changes can be traced even if disjointedly and sporadically." (Abstract)
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"Die vorliegende Veröffentlichung gibt einen Überblick über die Situation indigener Kinder und Jugendlicher in Bolivien, Ecuador und Peru im Lichte der UN-Konvention über die Rechte des Kindes sowie des Übereinkommens 169 der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation (ILO). Die Anerkennung und prakti
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sche Umsetzung indigenen Rechts (indigene Rechtsprechung) findet hierbei Berücksichtigung. Im Mittelpunkt der Analyse steht das Handeln der nationalen Regierungen als zentrale Pflichtenträger zur Achtung und zum Schutz der genannten Rechte. Ferner werden die Arbeitsansätze der Institutionen zur Förderung von Kinderrechten (internationale Zusammenarbeit, zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen u. a.) genauer betrachtet." (Einleitung)
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