Seran Demiral
Biographic Data
| ID | 933536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seran Demiral |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seran |
| FAMILY NAME | Demiral |
| SIGNATURE | DEMIRAL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bahçeşehir University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9618-8295 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What to preserve for future generations? children’s visions of future society: Ecological, political, and technological perspectives
How political is the child? Exploring children's political agency in geo-contexts of their lives
This adult-initiated child-led study explored how children exercised political agency by raising their critical and constructive voice regarding matters that concerned them in different geo-contexts of their lives. Capitalizing on the notion of children as "political beings" and "social-political actors," the study drew upon a geosocial approach and spatio-political socialization frameworks. Data were collected with 60 children in Istanbul at thr…
Roadblocks in Child Participation Practices in Academia and Civil Society: Insights from a Turkish Case
This article discusses the potential and pitfalls of children’s participation in academic and non-academic settings through a child participation project in Turkey by questioning various forms of childism from child and adult perspectives. We first and foremost acknowledge and emphasise the child’s position as a form of political resilience in a world where adult centrism has been the norm, regardless of differences in childhood experiences acros…
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey
This ethnographic study reveals how young people become environmentally aware citizens. The study traces the lived worlds of early youth in Turkey by focusing on their environmental experiences and by problematising climate change and consumerism. Through online mapping activities and in‐depth interviews, the applied geo‐social methodology explores the social, spatial and political subjectivities of 21 young people from different parts of Turkey,…
Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights
This study focuses on an adult‐initiated and child‐led research journey that aimed to explore the path to empower children towards exercising their participation rights in different environments of their lives. To this end, a series of multi‐stage participation empowerment activities were carried out with 60 children in Istanbul, as guided by the child participation model and ecological systems theory. Findings are narrated through children's voi…
Erken çocukluk döneminde felsefe aracılığıyla yeni pedagoji
Çocukların düşünce ve dil gelişimleri konusundaki geleneksel teorilere genel bir değerlendirme niteliğini taşıyan bu yazıda çocuk-merkezli eğitim konusu çocuklar ile felsefe pratiği çerçevesinde tartışmaya açılmaktadır. Gelişim basamaklarına göre çocukların zihinsel işlevlerini aşamalandıran Piaget’nin dil ve düşünme arasındaki ilişkiye dair görüşlerine Vygotsky’nin sosyo-kültürel yaklaşımı ile bakmayı öneren metnin ilerleyen kısımlarında, Bjorkl…
Roadblocks in Child Participation Practices in Academia and Civil Society: Insights from a Turkish Case
This article discusses the potential and pitfalls of children’s participation in academic and non-academic settings through a child participation project in Turkey by questioning various forms of childism from child and adult perspectives. We first and foremost acknowledge and emphasise the child’s position as a form of political resilience in a world where adult centrism has been the norm, regardless of differences in childhood experiences acros…
How political is the child? Exploring children's political agency in geo-contexts of their lives
This adult-initiated child-led study explored how children exercised political agency by raising their critical and constructive voice regarding matters that concerned them in different geo-contexts of their lives. Capitalizing on the notion of children as "political beings" and "social-political actors," the study drew upon a geosocial approach and spatio-political socialization frameworks. Data were collected with 60 children in Istanbul at thr…
Erken çocukluk döneminde felsefe aracılığıyla yeni pedagoji
Çocukların düşünce ve dil gelişimleri konusundaki geleneksel teorilere genel bir değerlendirme niteliğini taşıyan bu yazıda çocuk-merkezli eğitim konusu çocuklar ile felsefe pratiği çerçevesinde tartışmaya açılmaktadır. Gelişim basamaklarına göre çocukların zihinsel işlevlerini aşamalandıran Piaget’nin dil ve düşünme arasındaki ilişkiye dair görüşlerine Vygotsky’nin sosyo-kültürel yaklaşımı ile bakmayı öneren metnin ilerleyen kısımlarında, Bjorkl…
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey
This ethnographic study reveals how young people become environmentally aware citizens. The study traces the lived worlds of early youth in Turkey by focusing on their environmental experiences and by problematising climate change and consumerism. Through online mapping activities and in‐depth interviews, the applied geo‐social methodology explores the social, spatial and political subjectivities of 21 young people from different parts of Turkey,…
Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights
This study focuses on an adult‐initiated and child‐led research journey that aimed to explore the path to empower children towards exercising their participation rights in different environments of their lives. To this end, a series of multi‐stage participation empowerment activities were carried out with 60 children in Istanbul, as guided by the child participation model and ecological systems theory. Findings are narrated through children's voi…
Roadblocks in Child Participation Practices in Academia and Civil Society: Insights from a Turkish Case
This article discusses the potential and pitfalls of children’s participation in academic and non-academic settings through a child participation project in Turkey by questioning various forms of childism from child and adult perspectives. We first and foremost acknowledge and emphasise the child’s position as a form of political resilience in a world where adult centrism has been the norm, regardless of differences in childhood experiences acros…
What to preserve for future generations? children’s visions of future society: Ecological, political, and technological perspectives
How political is the child? Exploring children's political agency in geo-contexts of their lives
This adult-initiated child-led study explored how children exercised political agency by raising their critical and constructive voice regarding matters that concerned them in different geo-contexts of their lives. Capitalizing on the notion of children as "political beings" and "social-political actors," the study drew upon a geosocial approach and spatio-political socialization frameworks. Data were collected with 60 children in Istanbul at thr…
Children's Rights and Participation (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)