Elena Samonova
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 95072 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elena Samonova |
| PRENOMES | Elena |
| SOBRENOME | Samonova |
| ASSINATURA | SAMONOVA E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6078-7739 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Building Children’s Competencies for Educational Achievement Through Chores and Labor
This study investigates whether children’s work outside of school (manual work and domestic chores) positively impacts their educational outcomes, via the development of social and emotional resources. This challenges assumptions that child work is always detrimental to academic outcomes. The study is set in rural Sierra Leone and uses four waves of data from the Safe Learning Study (N = 3,118; female: 43%), a longitudinal intervention aimed at i…
The Covid-19 pandemic and children’s engagement with learning in rural Sierra Leone
The COVID-19 pandemic caused worldwide educational disruption. This paper addresses a gap in the literature relating to the impact of the pandemic on learning experiences of children in rural communities in the Global South, particularly in earlier years of schooling. Children in these communities are at considerable disadvantage in comparison to their urban peers due to poor school infrastructure and challenges in recruitment and retention of te…
Picturing safety and danger
The question of dangers and safety in children's lives has become a matter of increasing concern. This paper aims to contribute to the discussion in this field and elaborate on children's experiences of risks and dangers in the context of chronic poverty. Drawing on the post‐humanism approach, we argue that children's conceptions of risks and dangers emerge through their active and mutual exchange with other human and non‐human beings such as riv…
The man is always in front while the woman is at the back”
Our research from Sierra Leone shows how the schooling experience presents new gender puzzles. Since the end of the civil war in 2002, serious efforts have been made to improve access to education and enhance gender equality in schools as part of the Education for All agenda. However, despite enhanced educational opportunities for girls and rising school enrolment rates, girls are still more likely to drop out from school than boys especially in …
Lifeworlds of female bonded labourers among the Sahariya tribe
Debt bondage is one of the most widespread forms of unfree labour today. The majority of the existing studies focuses on bonded labourers as a homogenous group rather than examining group dynamics within the population of bonded labourers. This paper tries to overcome these limitations and examines experiences of female bonded labourers from the Sahariya tribe in India. It argues that gendered norms intersect with other patterns of structural vio…
Developing a Social Evolutionary Measure of Child and Adolescent Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Rural Sierra Leone
The study establishes the validity of a new measure of child and adolescent hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing designed for international use and based on social evolutionary theory. The measure advances the fields of psychometrics and happiness studies by providing the first a-contextual assessment of both hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing that is suitable for use with children and adolescents. The Child and Adolescent Personal and Social Assessmen…
Assessing experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone
Purpose This paper aims to discuss the construction of two composite indices to assess children’s experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone. Design/methodology/approach The authors provide a conceptual framework based on the three dimensions of the violence index (direct, structural and cultural violence) and the three dimensions of the positive peace index (inclusion, citizenship and well-being). After that, this wor…
Under the Mango Tree
In recent decades, photovoice has become a popular method in research that involves children as active research participants. This paper focuses on the procedures and methods of gathering and interpretation of data from a photovoice project with children in rural Sierra Leone. Photovoice in this project was an integral part of a more wide ranging multi-modal study on gender, well-being and schooling of primary school children. The inclusion of ph…
Power, agency and children’s time use in rural Sierra Leone
Children’s time allocation plays an important role in their well-being, education and future chances in life. This paper examines children’s time use in rural Sierra Leone in the context of dynamics of power. It analyses the ways in which children co-construct their patterns of time use and create their own temporal spaces within the boundaries of existing expectations and norms. Drawing on rich qualitative data we argue that children’s routines …
An empty bag cannot stand upright’
Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world with a literacy level of 51%. The government has oficially abolished school fees; however, families still have to cover various education-related costs for their children. This paper analyses the nature of the schooling costs in Sierra Leone. It shows that despite the abolition of school fees, schooling costs remain prohibitively high. Based on field research – which involved the observati…
Gendering childhood(s) and engagement with schooling in rural Sierra Leone
In spite of widespread initiatives to improve access to education for girls, substantive concerns remain. While there is a rich and growing body of literature on gendered experiences of school in majority world contexts, absent is a focus on how this intersects with children’s out of school lives. Further, research with children in rural communities is limited, including those who are in the earlier years of their schooling. This paper addresses …
Becoming 'brilliant
This paper explores the generationing of education and development in five villages in Northern Sierra Leone. Understood as 'fields' governed by power dynamics, we consider how the interactive 'fields' of generation, education and development coalesce, re/structuring adult and child 'being' and 'doing'. We explore the tensions that arise between transformation and preservation in the field in light of wider social, cultural and economic change, a…
Modern Slavery and Bonded Labour in South Asia
Modern Slavery and Bonded Labour in South Asia
This book investigates one of the most pervasive forms of modern slavery: bonded labour, whereby labour is linked with a credit agreement, leaving a debtor bound to repay their debt through long-term servitude. Drawing on cases from Nepal and India, the author adopts a human rights-based approach, interpreting slavery as a violation of human rights, and focusing on the empowerment of slaves as rights holders. Ultimately the book aims to explore t…
Gendering childhood(s) and engagement with schooling in rural Sierra Leone
In spite of widespread initiatives to improve access to education for girls, substantive concerns remain. While there is a rich and growing body of literature on gendered experiences of school in majority world contexts, absent is a focus on how this intersects with children’s out of school lives. Further, research with children in rural communities is limited, including those who are in the earlier years of their schooling. This paper addresses …
Under the Mango Tree
In recent decades, photovoice has become a popular method in research that involves children as active research participants. This paper focuses on the procedures and methods of gathering and interpretation of data from a photovoice project with children in rural Sierra Leone. Photovoice in this project was an integral part of a more wide ranging multi-modal study on gender, well-being and schooling of primary school children. The inclusion of ph…
The man is always in front while the woman is at the back”
Our research from Sierra Leone shows how the schooling experience presents new gender puzzles. Since the end of the civil war in 2002, serious efforts have been made to improve access to education and enhance gender equality in schools as part of the Education for All agenda. However, despite enhanced educational opportunities for girls and rising school enrolment rates, girls are still more likely to drop out from school than boys especially in …
Assessing experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone
Purpose This paper aims to discuss the construction of two composite indices to assess children’s experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone. Design/methodology/approach The authors provide a conceptual framework based on the three dimensions of the violence index (direct, structural and cultural violence) and the three dimensions of the positive peace index (inclusion, citizenship and well-being). After that, this wor…
Becoming 'brilliant
This paper explores the generationing of education and development in five villages in Northern Sierra Leone. Understood as 'fields' governed by power dynamics, we consider how the interactive 'fields' of generation, education and development coalesce, re/structuring adult and child 'being' and 'doing'. We explore the tensions that arise between transformation and preservation in the field in light of wider social, cultural and economic change, a…
Modern Slavery and Bonded Labour in South Asia
This book investigates one of the most pervasive forms of modern slavery: bonded labour, whereby labour is linked with a credit agreement, leaving a debtor bound to repay their debt through long-term servitude. Drawing on cases from Nepal and India, the author adopts a human rights-based approach, interpreting slavery as a violation of human rights, and focusing on the empowerment of slaves as rights holders. Ultimately the book aims to explore t…
Modern Slavery and Bonded Labour in South Asia
Power, agency and children’s time use in rural Sierra Leone
Children’s time allocation plays an important role in their well-being, education and future chances in life. This paper examines children’s time use in rural Sierra Leone in the context of dynamics of power. It analyses the ways in which children co-construct their patterns of time use and create their own temporal spaces within the boundaries of existing expectations and norms. Drawing on rich qualitative data we argue that children’s routines …
An empty bag cannot stand upright’
Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world with a literacy level of 51%. The government has oficially abolished school fees; however, families still have to cover various education-related costs for their children. This paper analyses the nature of the schooling costs in Sierra Leone. It shows that despite the abolition of school fees, schooling costs remain prohibitively high. Based on field research – which involved the observati…
Gendering childhood(s) and engagement with schooling in rural Sierra Leone
In spite of widespread initiatives to improve access to education for girls, substantive concerns remain. While there is a rich and growing body of literature on gendered experiences of school in majority world contexts, absent is a focus on how this intersects with children’s out of school lives. Further, research with children in rural communities is limited, including those who are in the earlier years of their schooling. This paper addresses …
Becoming 'brilliant
This paper explores the generationing of education and development in five villages in Northern Sierra Leone. Understood as 'fields' governed by power dynamics, we consider how the interactive 'fields' of generation, education and development coalesce, re/structuring adult and child 'being' and 'doing'. We explore the tensions that arise between transformation and preservation in the field in light of wider social, cultural and economic change, a…
Developing a Social Evolutionary Measure of Child and Adolescent Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Rural Sierra Leone
The study establishes the validity of a new measure of child and adolescent hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing designed for international use and based on social evolutionary theory. The measure advances the fields of psychometrics and happiness studies by providing the first a-contextual assessment of both hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing that is suitable for use with children and adolescents. The Child and Adolescent Personal and Social Assessmen…
Assessing experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone
Purpose This paper aims to discuss the construction of two composite indices to assess children’s experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone. Design/methodology/approach The authors provide a conceptual framework based on the three dimensions of the violence index (direct, structural and cultural violence) and the three dimensions of the positive peace index (inclusion, citizenship and well-being). After that, this wor…
Under the Mango Tree
In recent decades, photovoice has become a popular method in research that involves children as active research participants. This paper focuses on the procedures and methods of gathering and interpretation of data from a photovoice project with children in rural Sierra Leone. Photovoice in this project was an integral part of a more wide ranging multi-modal study on gender, well-being and schooling of primary school children. The inclusion of ph…
Picturing safety and danger
The question of dangers and safety in children's lives has become a matter of increasing concern. This paper aims to contribute to the discussion in this field and elaborate on children's experiences of risks and dangers in the context of chronic poverty. Drawing on the post‐humanism approach, we argue that children's conceptions of risks and dangers emerge through their active and mutual exchange with other human and non‐human beings such as riv…
The man is always in front while the woman is at the back”
Our research from Sierra Leone shows how the schooling experience presents new gender puzzles. Since the end of the civil war in 2002, serious efforts have been made to improve access to education and enhance gender equality in schools as part of the Education for All agenda. However, despite enhanced educational opportunities for girls and rising school enrolment rates, girls are still more likely to drop out from school than boys especially in …
Lifeworlds of female bonded labourers among the Sahariya tribe
Debt bondage is one of the most widespread forms of unfree labour today. The majority of the existing studies focuses on bonded labourers as a homogenous group rather than examining group dynamics within the population of bonded labourers. This paper tries to overcome these limitations and examines experiences of female bonded labourers from the Sahariya tribe in India. It argues that gendered norms intersect with other patterns of structural vio…
The Covid-19 pandemic and children’s engagement with learning in rural Sierra Leone
The COVID-19 pandemic caused worldwide educational disruption. This paper addresses a gap in the literature relating to the impact of the pandemic on learning experiences of children in rural communities in the Global South, particularly in earlier years of schooling. Children in these communities are at considerable disadvantage in comparison to their urban peers due to poor school infrastructure and challenges in recruitment and retention of te…
Building Children’s Competencies for Educational Achievement Through Chores and Labor
This study investigates whether children’s work outside of school (manual work and domestic chores) positively impacts their educational outcomes, via the development of social and emotional resources. This challenges assumptions that child work is always detrimental to academic outcomes. The study is set in rural Sierra Leone and uses four waves of data from the Safe Learning Study (N = 3,118; female: 43%), a longitudinal intervention aimed at i…
Sociology (11 obras) · Sierra leone (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (9 obras) · Socioeconomics (9 obras) · Economic growth (5 obras) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (5 obras) · Economics (4 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Geography (4 obras)