Enabling talk and reframing messages: working creatively with care experienced children and young people to recount and re-represent their everyday experiences

Mannay, Dawn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7368-4111, Staples, Eleanor, Hallett, Sophie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7792-4453, Roberts, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6154-3549, Rees, Alyson ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-4965, Evans, Rhiannon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0239-6331 and Andrews, Darren 2019. Enabling talk and reframing messages: working creatively with care experienced children and young people to recount and re-represent their everyday experiences. Child Care in Practice 25 (1) , pp. 51-63. 10.1080/13575279.2018.1521375

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Abstract

The educational experiences and outcomes of care experienced children and young people is of longstanding concern. The pervasive inequalities they face suggest that current policies have been unable to respond fully to the complex causes of the problem. This paper reflects on a qualitative study into the educational experiences and aspirations of children and young people who are looked after in Wales. The project worked with care experienced peer researchers and drew on visual, creative and participatory techniques to explore 67 children’s and young people’s experiences of education and, importantly, their opinions on what could be done to improve it. This multimodal approach allowed space for participants to think through their subjective, mundane, but important, experiences that operate alongside, and interact with, more structural challenges. A range of films, magazines, artwork, and music outputs were developed to ensure that the project recommendations could reach wide and diverse audiences. This paper argues the voices of children and young people need to be given a platform to inform policy and practice. For this to happen researchers need to be creative in their approaches to both fieldwork and dissemination; harnessing the power of the arts to make positive changes in the everyday lives of children and young people.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races L Education > L Education (General) N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Care; children; education; participatory research; visual methods; young people
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
ISSN:	1357-5279
Funders:	Welsh Government
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 June 2018
Date of Acceptance:	12 June 2018
Last Modified:	18 May 2023 17:48
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/112207

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