Peer-reviewed article
On Major Conceptual Shifts within Research on Child Well-Being in Estonia
Dagmar Kutsar ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This paper is a personal, narrative look back at how research on children and childhood has changed in Estonia. It begins with child poverty research, which grew out of the recognition of poverty as a social issue in the early 1990s. It then reviews shifts in theory and methods in childhood research. It ends with international comparative approaches to children's subjective and relational well-being.
Key points
- The paper presents the author's own narrative of major shifts in research on children and childhood.
- It gives a retrospective of child poverty research in Estonia.
- Poverty was socially and politically acknowledged as a social issue in Estonia in the early 1990s.
- It revisits shifts in theory and methodology of childhood research.
- It reaches international comparative approaches to child subjective and relational well-being.
Limitations
Only the abstract is available, so no data, specific findings or methods are given. The account reflects the author's perspective and is not an evaluation of any intervention.
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to highlight major shifts in research regarding children and childhood as a narrative of the author. It starts from presenting a retrospective of child poverty research in Estonia, and it is demonstrated how it has developed from the social and political acknowledgement of poverty as a social issue in the early 1990s. Then it revisits main shifts in theory and methodology of childhood research and reaches international comparative approaches to child subjective and relational well-being.