Michael Wyne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Wyne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Wyne |
| SIGNATURE | WYNE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8692-704X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Children's perceptions and challenges of participation in decision‐making: A case study of a participatory initiative in a Chinese primary school
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), adopted in 1989, stipulates that children have the right to freely express their views on all matters affecting them, as stated in Article 12. Although China signed the UNCRC in 1990 and ratified it in 1992, its application remains a challenge. There is little research on children's participation in decision‐making in the school context in China. This article reports a qualitative …
Negotiating Caring and Education: A Small‐Scale Study of Young Carers and Their Transitions Towards Independence and Adulthood
This article reports on findings from a pilot study with eight young carers, aged 15–21, in the Midlands region of England. The study looked at the impact of caring responsibilities on young carers' life worlds as they negotiated transitions towards independence and adulthood. It explored the aspirations and future plans of five younger members of the group (15–18) who were on the cusp of adulthood and post compulsory schooling and three slightly…
Speeding up and slowing down: Managing migrant children’s schooling and resettlement in an English city
There is an expectation that schools generate certainty in migrant children’s lives in the processes of resettlement in host communities. However, there is also a critical body of literature highlighting a tension between an inflexible system of mass compulsory schooling that predominates in most affluent “destination” countries and the complex multi-dimensional nature of migrant children’s lives. In this paper, we examine the relationship betwee…
Peace Education in a Post-Conflict Society: The Case Study of Sierra Leone
The end of the conflict in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002 provided an important context for exploring the role of peace education in restoring governance, rebuilding institutions, and promoting socio-economic development. Following the civil war, a variety of externally designed peace education programmes were introduced across the country. These included formal programmes integrated into the school curriculum and non-formal initiatives led b…
Children’s Participation in Decisions Affecting their School Life in China: Towards Children’s Subjective Well-Being in School
Sierra Leone and Peace Education: A Case Study of Transportation Poverty in the Aftermath of Civil War
Unequal access to education and employment inequalities were major issues that led to the Sierra Leone civil war from 1991 to 2002. Many educational practices were introduced to the country in the direct aftermath of the war to bring more positive changes such as education opportunities and reconciliation. However, by using the social constructionist approach in our analysis, we found that infrastructural issues were neglected by researchers and …
Breaking the silence: Working with pupil voice in Iranian primary schools
The paper provides analysis of findings from research on “pupil voice” collected from 88 Iranian pupils within five primary classrooms. No previous research has been carried out in Iran on “pupil voice” emphasising children’s right to a say about different matters in their school lives. Two methods of data collection were applied: a) participant observation where the observer facilitated workshops within each classroom enabling children to reflec…
The Uneven Distribution of Children’s Rights: Schooling, Caring and “Living” Rights
The discourse on children’s rights has reconceptualised children and childhood in terms of human integrity and ontology. However, there are ongoing questions over its universal applicability. In this paper I offer a critical examination of children’s rights, focusing on the uneven distribution rather than universal spread of rights which dominates the discourse. The paper focuses on educational rights in terms of frames of reference that limit ch…
The responsible parent and networks of support: A case study of school engagement in a challenging environment
Research, policy and practice on education in recent years has focused attention on the mediating role that parents play in children's schooling. Parents have been constructed as responsible agents; as consumers, investors and partners in the performance‐oriented educational project. Much of the literature has looked at parent–school relations from the vantage point of parents, particularly parents in disadvantaged areas. Less has been written on…
Childhood, Human Rights and Adversity: The Case of Children and Military Conflict
The Convention on the rights of the Child focuses global attention on those children living in adverse situations crystallising a global commitment to protecting children. Nevertheless, beyond these commitments to children, researchers have questioned whether the rights agenda captures the diversity of children's lives globally. Does the Convention connect with the lifeworlds of children playing formative roles? Drawing on critical research on ch…
Young Citizens and Political Participation in a Digital Society: Addressing the Digital Disconnect, written by Philippa Collin
The social and emotional dimensions of schooling: A case study in challenging the ‘barriers to learning’
The educational landscape in England and Wales is shaped by demands made on head teachers, teachers and pupils to perform within a ‘field of judgement’ dominated by clearly defined outcomes of academic success. This puts schools from socio‐economically excluded areas where there are potentially ‘barriers to learning’ at a considerable disadvantage. This article draws on case‐study data from an English secondary school in an area of considerable d…
Children, Family and the State: Revisiting Public and Private Realms
The state is often viewed as part of the impersonal public sphere in opposition to the private family as a locus of warmth and intimacy. In recent years this modernist dichotomy has been challenged by theoretical and institutional trends which have altered the relationship between state and family. This article explores changes to both elements of the dichotomy that challenge this relationship: a more fragmented family structure and more individu…
Global standards and deficit childhoods: The contested meaning of children's participation
In recent years a discursive voice-based form of children's participation has become a global standard. This has rendered more material children's practices particularly in less-affluent regions as deviant forms of participation. Drawing on the case of child labour, I critically examine the dominance of a discursive model of participation in terms of international policy statements. I argue for a more inclusive notion of children's participation …
Children's participation and intergenerational dialogue: Bringing adults back into the analysis
Within the field of children's participation there has been a shift from adults mediating children's worlds to children themselves becoming the sole interpreters of their own standpoints. In the process this has sometimes led to the marginalisation of adults' perspectives on and contributions to children's participation. In this article the author argues that analyses of children's participatory roles need to take account of the form and nature o…
Childhood and Society
Preface to the Second Edition Introduction PART I: CHILDHOOD AND THEORY The Social Meaning of Childhood Childhood and Social Structure Children and Childhood in Late Modernity Theories of Growing Up: Developmentalism and Socialisation Theory PART II: CHILDREN, SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL POLICY Childhood in Crisis: Social Disorder and Reconstruction Children, Family and the State: Policing Childhood Schooling Children and Childhood PART III: CHILD…
Adult’s Involvement in Children’s Participation: Juggling Children’s Places and Spaces
While children and young people’s participation is a well‐established research field, much less has been written about the roles that adults play in supporting this participation. This article examines the involvement of adults within participatory forums in English schools and local authorities. Drawing on empirical data from research on children’s participation in pupil and civic councils, the article discusses the complex and sometimes contrad…
Children Representing Children: Participation and the problem of diversity in UK youth councils
This article is concerned with the relationship between children's participation and the diversity of childhoods. While there are a number of different arrangements for encouraging children and young people to participate, the article focuses on a dominant mode of participation through which children are elected to represent the interests of other children within formal institutional structures. Drawing on empirical data from work with school and…
The Politics of Childhood: International Perspectives, Contemporary Developments
by Jim Goddard, Sally McNamee, Adrian James and Allison James ( eds ) Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2005 ISBN: 1403935513 , 280 pp , £50.00 (hb) The central theme in this readable and wide-ranging collection is the tension between childhood as a vehicle for political and ideological struggle and the lack of recognition of children within these contested political spaces. The dominant focus within this book is a politics of childhood, with ed…
Childhood, Politics and Ambiguity: Towards an Agenda for Children’s Political Inclusion
This article examines the relationship between children, young people and the world of politics. Whilst the past decade or so has seen the development of initiatives that draw children within the political sphere, there are powerful political and social forces that position children as dependent subalterns and thus exclude them from political participation.We address this ambiguous situation by referring to competing discourses on childhood: the …
Children's Space and Interests: Constructing an Agenda for Student Voice
Student voice is now a more prominent feature of the education policy agenda in England and Wales. The introduction of citizenship education and the demands on schools to become more socially inclusive have forced educationalists to look more critically at the most popular expression of student voice, the school council. Drawing on empirical data from four secondary schools, this paper explores the strategies adopted by students and staff in esta…
Living with parental involvement: A case study of two 'open schools
This account is based on case study data collected in two first phase schools (5-8 years) in England. The focus is the response of parents and teachers to a supposed opening up of schools through increased parental involvement in schooling. The idea of the 'open' school dominates the data; it emerges as a metaphor of convenience and is pivotal in the way in which parents and teachers use it to explain and sustain parent-teacher relations of a mut…
Childhood, Agency and Education Reform
This article provides commentary on the relationship between childhood and agency within the context of education reform. The prominence of a `child-centred' social science and the trends in childcare policy, at least in some countries, towards the articulation of children's voices suggest possibilities for children as both research subjects and competent members of society. The article will address these possibilities through the analysis of a s…
Parental Responsibilities, Social Policy and the Maintenance of Boundaries
This article explores the theoretical, empirical and policy driven links between the idea of parental responsibility and the practice of boundary setting within the home. Two forms of boundary setting are initially described: first, parents' attempts to draw boundaries between themselves and 'external' sources of child support such as the school and the social services; second, parents' attempts to assert a clear hierarchical difference between t…
Policy, Protectionism and the Competent Child
This article examines the way that recent policy initiatives on childhood in Britain generate contradictory models of childhood. It is argued that the childcare and educational policy contexts suggest that children are (1) in need of greater protection, control and `redevelopment' and (2) more active in constructing strategies for dealing with problems within the home and the school. In an attempt to make sense of these seemingly irreconcilable d…
Children's participation and intergenerational dialogue: Bringing adults back into the analysis
Within the field of children's participation there has been a shift from adults mediating children's worlds to children themselves becoming the sole interpreters of their own standpoints. In the process this has sometimes led to the marginalisation of adults' perspectives on and contributions to children's participation. In this article the author argues that analyses of children's participatory roles need to take account of the form and nature o…
Children Representing Children: Participation and the problem of diversity in UK youth councils
This article is concerned with the relationship between children's participation and the diversity of childhoods. While there are a number of different arrangements for encouraging children and young people to participate, the article focuses on a dominant mode of participation through which children are elected to represent the interests of other children within formal institutional structures. Drawing on empirical data from work with school and…
Global standards and deficit childhoods: The contested meaning of children's participation
In recent years a discursive voice-based form of children's participation has become a global standard. This has rendered more material children's practices particularly in less-affluent regions as deviant forms of participation. Drawing on the case of child labour, I critically examine the dominance of a discursive model of participation in terms of international policy statements. I argue for a more inclusive notion of children's participation …
Childhood, Politics and Ambiguity: Towards an Agenda for Children’s Political Inclusion
This article examines the relationship between children, young people and the world of politics. Whilst the past decade or so has seen the development of initiatives that draw children within the political sphere, there are powerful political and social forces that position children as dependent subalterns and thus exclude them from political participation.We address this ambiguous situation by referring to competing discourses on childhood: the …
Childhood, Agency and Education Reform
This article provides commentary on the relationship between childhood and agency within the context of education reform. The prominence of a `child-centred' social science and the trends in childcare policy, at least in some countries, towards the articulation of children's voices suggest possibilities for children as both research subjects and competent members of society. The article will address these possibilities through the analysis of a s…
Policy, Protectionism and the Competent Child
This article examines the way that recent policy initiatives on childhood in Britain generate contradictory models of childhood. It is argued that the childcare and educational policy contexts suggest that children are (1) in need of greater protection, control and `redevelopment' and (2) more active in constructing strategies for dealing with problems within the home and the school. In an attempt to make sense of these seemingly irreconcilable d…
Children, Family and the State: Revisiting Public and Private Realms
The state is often viewed as part of the impersonal public sphere in opposition to the private family as a locus of warmth and intimacy. In recent years this modernist dichotomy has been challenged by theoretical and institutional trends which have altered the relationship between state and family. This article explores changes to both elements of the dichotomy that challenge this relationship: a more fragmented family structure and more individu…
Parental Responsibilities, Social Policy and the Maintenance of Boundaries
This article explores the theoretical, empirical and policy driven links between the idea of parental responsibility and the practice of boundary setting within the home. Two forms of boundary setting are initially described: first, parents' attempts to draw boundaries between themselves and 'external' sources of child support such as the school and the social services; second, parents' attempts to assert a clear hierarchical difference between t…
Keeping Tabs on an Uncivil Society: Positive Parental Control
Interview data from a sample of parents with adolescent children are used to assess arguments that centre on the fears parents have about their child rearing practices. The focus in some recent accounts of parenting has been on how these fears indicate the moral and psychological state of parenthood rather than the problems parents think their children have negotiating an increasingly insecure outside world. By focusing on the latter, this paper …
Children's Space and Interests: Constructing an Agenda for Student Voice
Student voice is now a more prominent feature of the education policy agenda in England and Wales. The introduction of citizenship education and the demands on schools to become more socially inclusive have forced educationalists to look more critically at the most popular expression of student voice, the school council. Drawing on empirical data from four secondary schools, this paper explores the strategies adopted by students and staff in esta…
Schooling and the Normalisation of Sex Talk within the Home
This paper addresses public concern over the extent to which the school has supplanted parental responsibilities for the sex education of their children. This concern is investigated through a series of interviews with parents of adolescent children. I argue that rather than focus on an opposition between the intrusive school and the private domestic unit, the problem with sex education is located within the domestic unit as parents had difficult…
The responsible parent and networks of support: A case study of school engagement in a challenging environment
Research, policy and practice on education in recent years has focused attention on the mediating role that parents play in children's schooling. Parents have been constructed as responsible agents; as consumers, investors and partners in the performance‐oriented educational project. Much of the literature has looked at parent–school relations from the vantage point of parents, particularly parents in disadvantaged areas. Less has been written on…
The social and emotional dimensions of schooling: A case study in challenging the ‘barriers to learning’
The educational landscape in England and Wales is shaped by demands made on head teachers, teachers and pupils to perform within a ‘field of judgement’ dominated by clearly defined outcomes of academic success. This puts schools from socio‐economically excluded areas where there are potentially ‘barriers to learning’ at a considerable disadvantage. This article draws on case‐study data from an English secondary school in an area of considerable d…
Peace Education in a Post-Conflict Society: The Case Study of Sierra Leone
The end of the conflict in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002 provided an important context for exploring the role of peace education in restoring governance, rebuilding institutions, and promoting socio-economic development. Following the civil war, a variety of externally designed peace education programmes were introduced across the country. These included formal programmes integrated into the school curriculum and non-formal initiatives led b…
Children’s Participation in Decisions Affecting their School Life in China: Towards Children’s Subjective Well-Being in School
Sierra Leone and Peace Education: A Case Study of Transportation Poverty in the Aftermath of Civil War
Unequal access to education and employment inequalities were major issues that led to the Sierra Leone civil war from 1991 to 2002. Many educational practices were introduced to the country in the direct aftermath of the war to bring more positive changes such as education opportunities and reconciliation. However, by using the social constructionist approach in our analysis, we found that infrastructural issues were neglected by researchers and …
Living with parental involvement: A case study of two 'open schools
This account is based on case study data collected in two first phase schools (5-8 years) in England. The focus is the response of parents and teachers to a supposed opening up of schools through increased parental involvement in schooling. The idea of the 'open' school dominates the data; it emerges as a metaphor of convenience and is pivotal in the way in which parents and teachers use it to explain and sustain parent-teacher relations of a mut…
Schooling and the Normalisation of Sex Talk within the Home
This paper addresses public concern over the extent to which the school has supplanted parental responsibilities for the sex education of their children. This concern is investigated through a series of interviews with parents of adolescent children. I argue that rather than focus on an opposition between the intrusive school and the private domestic unit, the problem with sex education is located within the domestic unit as parents had difficult…
Keeping Tabs on an Uncivil Society: Positive Parental Control
Interview data from a sample of parents with adolescent children are used to assess arguments that centre on the fears parents have about their child rearing practices. The focus in some recent accounts of parenting has been on how these fears indicate the moral and psychological state of parenthood rather than the problems parents think their children have negotiating an increasingly insecure outside world. By focusing on the latter, this paper …
Schooling, Welfare and the Policing of Parents
The relationship between the home and the school is a subject of much debate within the public domain. Present concerns over a parent charter which grants parents more say in the running of the school overlaps with a more long-standing critique of the school as a welfarist agency which undermines parental authority. This paper focuses on the latter interpretation of ‘parent power’ and offers an empirical assessment at three levels of analysis. Fi…
Policy, Protectionism and the Competent Child
This article examines the way that recent policy initiatives on childhood in Britain generate contradictory models of childhood. It is argued that the childcare and educational policy contexts suggest that children are (1) in need of greater protection, control and `redevelopment' and (2) more active in constructing strategies for dealing with problems within the home and the school. In an attempt to make sense of these seemingly irreconcilable d…
Parental Responsibilities, Social Policy and the Maintenance of Boundaries
This article explores the theoretical, empirical and policy driven links between the idea of parental responsibility and the practice of boundary setting within the home. Two forms of boundary setting are initially described: first, parents' attempts to draw boundaries between themselves and 'external' sources of child support such as the school and the social services; second, parents' attempts to assert a clear hierarchical difference between t…
Living with parental involvement: A case study of two 'open schools
This account is based on case study data collected in two first phase schools (5-8 years) in England. The focus is the response of parents and teachers to a supposed opening up of schools through increased parental involvement in schooling. The idea of the 'open' school dominates the data; it emerges as a metaphor of convenience and is pivotal in the way in which parents and teachers use it to explain and sustain parent-teacher relations of a mut…
Childhood, Agency and Education Reform
This article provides commentary on the relationship between childhood and agency within the context of education reform. The prominence of a `child-centred' social science and the trends in childcare policy, at least in some countries, towards the articulation of children's voices suggest possibilities for children as both research subjects and competent members of society. The article will address these possibilities through the analysis of a s…
Children's Space and Interests: Constructing an Agenda for Student Voice
Student voice is now a more prominent feature of the education policy agenda in England and Wales. The introduction of citizenship education and the demands on schools to become more socially inclusive have forced educationalists to look more critically at the most popular expression of student voice, the school council. Drawing on empirical data from four secondary schools, this paper explores the strategies adopted by students and staff in esta…
Childhood, Politics and Ambiguity: Towards an Agenda for Children’s Political Inclusion
This article examines the relationship between children, young people and the world of politics. Whilst the past decade or so has seen the development of initiatives that draw children within the political sphere, there are powerful political and social forces that position children as dependent subalterns and thus exclude them from political participation.We address this ambiguous situation by referring to competing discourses on childhood: the …
The Politics of Childhood: International Perspectives, Contemporary Developments
by Jim Goddard, Sally McNamee, Adrian James and Allison James ( eds ) Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2005 ISBN: 1403935513 , 280 pp , £50.00 (hb) The central theme in this readable and wide-ranging collection is the tension between childhood as a vehicle for political and ideological struggle and the lack of recognition of children within these contested political spaces. The dominant focus within this book is a politics of childhood, with ed…
Adult’s Involvement in Children’s Participation: Juggling Children’s Places and Spaces
While children and young people’s participation is a well‐established research field, much less has been written about the roles that adults play in supporting this participation. This article examines the involvement of adults within participatory forums in English schools and local authorities. Drawing on empirical data from research on children’s participation in pupil and civic councils, the article discusses the complex and sometimes contrad…
Children Representing Children: Participation and the problem of diversity in UK youth councils
This article is concerned with the relationship between children's participation and the diversity of childhoods. While there are a number of different arrangements for encouraging children and young people to participate, the article focuses on a dominant mode of participation through which children are elected to represent the interests of other children within formal institutional structures. Drawing on empirical data from work with school and…
Childhood and Society
Preface to the Second Edition Introduction PART I: CHILDHOOD AND THEORY The Social Meaning of Childhood Childhood and Social Structure Children and Childhood in Late Modernity Theories of Growing Up: Developmentalism and Socialisation Theory PART II: CHILDREN, SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL POLICY Childhood in Crisis: Social Disorder and Reconstruction Children, Family and the State: Policing Childhood Schooling Children and Childhood PART III: CHILD…
Global standards and deficit childhoods: The contested meaning of children's participation
In recent years a discursive voice-based form of children's participation has become a global standard. This has rendered more material children's practices particularly in less-affluent regions as deviant forms of participation. Drawing on the case of child labour, I critically examine the dominance of a discursive model of participation in terms of international policy statements. I argue for a more inclusive notion of children's participation …
Children's participation and intergenerational dialogue: Bringing adults back into the analysis
Within the field of children's participation there has been a shift from adults mediating children's worlds to children themselves becoming the sole interpreters of their own standpoints. In the process this has sometimes led to the marginalisation of adults' perspectives on and contributions to children's participation. In this article the author argues that analyses of children's participatory roles need to take account of the form and nature o…
Children, Family and the State: Revisiting Public and Private Realms
The state is often viewed as part of the impersonal public sphere in opposition to the private family as a locus of warmth and intimacy. In recent years this modernist dichotomy has been challenged by theoretical and institutional trends which have altered the relationship between state and family. This article explores changes to both elements of the dichotomy that challenge this relationship: a more fragmented family structure and more individu…
Childhood, Human Rights and Adversity: The Case of Children and Military Conflict
The Convention on the rights of the Child focuses global attention on those children living in adverse situations crystallising a global commitment to protecting children. Nevertheless, beyond these commitments to children, researchers have questioned whether the rights agenda captures the diversity of children's lives globally. Does the Convention connect with the lifeworlds of children playing formative roles? Drawing on critical research on ch…
Young Citizens and Political Participation in a Digital Society: Addressing the Digital Disconnect, written by Philippa Collin
The social and emotional dimensions of schooling: A case study in challenging the ‘barriers to learning’
The educational landscape in England and Wales is shaped by demands made on head teachers, teachers and pupils to perform within a ‘field of judgement’ dominated by clearly defined outcomes of academic success. This puts schools from socio‐economically excluded areas where there are potentially ‘barriers to learning’ at a considerable disadvantage. This article draws on case‐study data from an English secondary school in an area of considerable d…
The responsible parent and networks of support: A case study of school engagement in a challenging environment
Research, policy and practice on education in recent years has focused attention on the mediating role that parents play in children's schooling. Parents have been constructed as responsible agents; as consumers, investors and partners in the performance‐oriented educational project. Much of the literature has looked at parent–school relations from the vantage point of parents, particularly parents in disadvantaged areas. Less has been written on…
Breaking the silence: Working with pupil voice in Iranian primary schools
The paper provides analysis of findings from research on “pupil voice” collected from 88 Iranian pupils within five primary classrooms. No previous research has been carried out in Iran on “pupil voice” emphasising children’s right to a say about different matters in their school lives. Two methods of data collection were applied: a) participant observation where the observer facilitated workshops within each classroom enabling children to reflec…
The Uneven Distribution of Children’s Rights: Schooling, Caring and “Living” Rights
The discourse on children’s rights has reconceptualised children and childhood in terms of human integrity and ontology. However, there are ongoing questions over its universal applicability. In this paper I offer a critical examination of children’s rights, focusing on the uneven distribution rather than universal spread of rights which dominates the discourse. The paper focuses on educational rights in terms of frames of reference that limit ch…
Sierra Leone and Peace Education: A Case Study of Transportation Poverty in the Aftermath of Civil War
Unequal access to education and employment inequalities were major issues that led to the Sierra Leone civil war from 1991 to 2002. Many educational practices were introduced to the country in the direct aftermath of the war to bring more positive changes such as education opportunities and reconciliation. However, by using the social constructionist approach in our analysis, we found that infrastructural issues were neglected by researchers and …
Children’s Participation in Decisions Affecting their School Life in China: Towards Children’s Subjective Well-Being in School
Negotiating Caring and Education: A Small‐Scale Study of Young Carers and Their Transitions Towards Independence and Adulthood
This article reports on findings from a pilot study with eight young carers, aged 15–21, in the Midlands region of England. The study looked at the impact of caring responsibilities on young carers' life worlds as they negotiated transitions towards independence and adulthood. It explored the aspirations and future plans of five younger members of the group (15–18) who were on the cusp of adulthood and post compulsory schooling and three slightly…
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (21 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (9 works)