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Koziel, S. & Spånberger Weitz, Y. (2023). Discourses about children’s participation and child perspective: A comparative study of the policy documents that guide social work in Sweden and Germany. Baltic Worlds, XVI(1-2), 90-105
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Discourses about children’s participation and child perspective: A comparative study of the policy documents that guide social work in Sweden and Germany
2023 (English)In: Baltic Worlds, ISSN 2000-2955, E-ISSN 2001-7308, Vol. XVI, no 1-2, p. 90-105Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article compares Swedish and German social work, including policy documents, and discusses the policies of these two countries regarding the implementation of children’s rights in social work practice. The analysis focuses on two main concepts that are used in social work practice: the concept of a child perspective in Sweden and the concept of participation in Germany. This study aims to investigate the ideas, values and guidelines mediated by political institutions to social workers in the field. The results showed that both the Swedish and German policy documents gave the distinct impression that the concepts had been properly implemented and formed part of child welfare practice. In the Swedish context, the idea of both making children visible and the formal aspects were highlighted, whereas in Germany, participation was related to an educational discourse. However, it is argued here that the discourses suggest that there is unequal relationship between children and adults, and we conclude that social workers must contribute to the child’s status as an active subject.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Södertörns högskola, 2023
Keywords
Child Perspective, Children’s Participation, German Social Work, Swedish Social Work, Discourse Analysis
National Category
Social Work
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51895 (URN)
Funder
Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
Available from: 2023-07-05 Created: 2023-07-05 Last updated: 2023-07-05Bibliographically approved
Koziel, S., Hultman, L., Spånberger Weitz, Y., Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H. & Elmersjö, M. (2023). Failures in the Child Perspective: Social Workers’ Experiences of Losing Focus of the Child. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 31(2), 352-377
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Failures in the Child Perspective: Social Workers’ Experiences of Losing Focus of the Child
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2023 (English)In: The International Journal of Children's Rights, ISSN 0927-5568, E-ISSN 1571-8182, Vol. 31, no 2, p. 352-377Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Children’s invisibility, non-participation or limited participation can be associated with social workers’ experiences of losing focus of the child in their work, while at the same time navigating organisational and legal demands where a child perspective is strongly promoted. This article sheds light on social workers’ experiences of workingwith a child perspective and with children’s participation. Six in-depth interviews were conducted with professionals from social services and ngo s and from different child welfare services in Sweden. Our findings indicate that losing focus of the child is a common phenomenon that relates to the dominance of adult-centred practice and that child-centred methods need to be developed. Social workers from NGOs described having better opportunities for working in a child-centred way. Losing focus of the child mirrors the subordinated position of child-centred practice, proving that a child perspective and children’s participation are still inadequately anchored in social work practice.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Brill Academic Publishers, 2023
Keywords
children’s participation, child perspective, social work practice, child-centred practice, Sweden, epistemic justice
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51894 (URN)10.1163/15718182-31020006 (DOI)001033618900004 ()2-s2.0-85165090410 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2023-07-05 Created: 2023-07-05 Last updated: 2023-08-25Bibliographically approved
Hultman, L., Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Elmersjö, M. & Koziel, S. (2023). Making me with others-gendered meanings of youth and youthfulness among young female disabled assistance users. Disability & Society, 38(9), 1626-1646
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Making me with others-gendered meanings of youth and youthfulness among young female disabled assistance users
2023 (English)In: Disability & Society, ISSN 0968-7599, E-ISSN 1360-0508, Vol. 38, no 9, p. 1626-1646Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The paper explores how disabled girls with Personal Assistants (PA:s) in a Swedish context constitute themselves as subjects in relation to intersecting meanings of age, gender, space, time and disability. The results illuminate the importance of social spaces and social relationships for the girls’ forming their sense of selves. Similar to ablebodied girls, disabled girls’ transition into adulthood can be viewed as a yoyo-transitions, entering and exiting different adult positions several times. Unlike ablebodied girls, they enter adult positions not commonly associated with youths, such as work leadership positions in relation to adult employees, such as the adult PA. This implies that they to some extent manage their own process of becoming an adult. Our findings stress the importance of recognition and awareness of disabled girls transition to adulthood as different not pathological to nondisabled girls’, where consideration is taken both to individual needs and preferences of female assistance users.

  • All girls need to develop their sense of themselves to become women
  • Disabled girls with personal assistants find it difficult to live ordinary lives as girls without the support of external personal assistants
  • With the help of personal assistants disabled girls can participate in the places and with the people they choose themselves
  • The relationship with the personal assistant put demands on the disabled girl to become a woman faster than abledbodied girls, in the same time it can hinder the girl’s development into a woman
  • It is important for practioners and policymakers to recognize the dual role of personal assistants in disabled girls lives
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2023
Keywords
Personal assistance, transition to adulthood, intersectionality, identity, space, disabled girl
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-47802 (URN)10.1080/09687599.2021.2007360 (DOI)000729029700001 ()2-s2.0-85121374958 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Norrbacka-Eugenia Foundation
Available from: 2021-12-13 Created: 2021-12-13 Last updated: 2023-11-24Bibliographically approved
Elmersjö, M., Koziel, S., Hultman, L., Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Hallqvist, J. & Obrenovic Johansson, S. (2022). Swedish citizenship through multicultural parenting: parental support as a learning practice for migrant parents in Sweden. European Journal of Social Work, 25(2), 329-340
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Swedish citizenship through multicultural parenting: parental support as a learning practice for migrant parents in Sweden
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2022 (English)In: European Journal of Social Work, ISSN 1369-1457, E-ISSN 1468-2664, Vol. 25, no 2, p. 329-340Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article examines the role of a civil society organisation that offers parental support to migrant parents with regard to meanings of parenthood and citizenship. It is based on the results of an action research study of a civil society organisation. The material consists of notes from participatory work in a local centre for children, youth and their parents, and of interviews with professionals, a project manager of the local organisation, and a public servant and a social worker who both work for the district council. Additional material is taken from notes of study visits to organisations working with the same target group. The results highlight four central themes. The first two themes, difficult parents in a precarious place and a place with a future?, revolves around parental needs in relation to place, the suburb. The third theme, civic parenting practices, focuses on parenting practices as civic practices. The fourth theme, gendering parent citizens, discusses the gendered meanings of the parent citizen as both an object and an agent of integration.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2022
Keywords
civil society, migrant parents, parenthood, citizenship, civilsamhället, migration, föräldraskap, medborgarskap
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-42081 (URN)10.1080/13691457.2020.1820451 (DOI)000576002700001 ()2-s2.0-85092418077 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2020-10-13 Created: 2020-10-13 Last updated: 2022-11-22Bibliographically approved
Koziel, S. (2019). Barnperspektiv i det socala arbetet? En analys av diskurser kring barnperspektiv och storstaden i Socialstyrelsens dokument (1ed.). In: Alinia Minoo & Songur Welat (Ed.), Socialt arbete i storstaden: Villkor och praktik (pp. 161-178). Stockholm: Liber
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Barnperspektiv i det socala arbetet? En analys av diskurser kring barnperspektiv och storstaden i Socialstyrelsens dokument
2019 (Swedish)In: Socialt arbete i storstaden: Villkor och praktik / [ed] Alinia Minoo & Songur Welat, Stockholm: Liber, 2019, 1, p. 161-178Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Liber, 2019 Edition: 1
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-37317 (URN)9789147113392 (ISBN)
Available from: 2019-01-17 Created: 2019-01-17 Last updated: 2019-02-26Bibliographically approved
Koziel, S. (2015). ”De tyckte att de var finare”: En adressatstudie om föräldrastöd för småbarnsföräldrar i Tyskland. ARKIV. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys (4), 99-120
Open this publication in new window or tab >>”De tyckte att de var finare”: En adressatstudie om föräldrastöd för småbarnsföräldrar i Tyskland
2015 (Swedish)In: ARKIV. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, ISSN 2000-6225, E-ISSN 2000-6217, no 4, p. 99-120Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [sv]

Sylwia Koziels artikel ger en bakgrund till det föräldrastöd som erbjuds småbarnsföräldrar i Tyskland och presenterar resultat från en så kallad adressatstudie. Både socialt utsatta föräldrars erfarenheter av föräldra–barn-grupper och nyblivna föräldrars livssituation (här med fokus på sociala nätverk) har undersökts genom intervjuer. Analysen mynnar ut i empiriskt grundade typologier och i formuleringen av specifika lärande- och bildningsteman som är kopplade till föräldrarnas livssituation och som kan vara relevanta för utvecklingen av föräldrastödsverksamhet. Resultaten visar bland annat att den traditionella kärnfamiljen tjänade som normalitetsideal och försvårade eller omöjliggjorde deltagande för de som tyckte sig avvika från normen, samt att socialt utsatta föräldrar använde föräldrastöd för att kompensera för resursbrister. Vidare visar resultaten att sociala nätverk kan upplevas som en belastning och att lärande- och bildningstemana då handlar om att kunna avgränsa sig eller att etablera några få men stödjande relationer.

National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-37544 (URN)10.13068/2000-6217.4.3 (DOI)
Available from: 2019-02-05 Created: 2019-02-05 Last updated: 2019-02-26Bibliographically approved
Koziel, S. (2011). Konfliktfelder und Bildungsthematiken von Familien: Ein Beitrag zur sozialpädagogischen AdressatInnenforschung im Kontext von Familienbildung. In: Arbeitskreis "Jugendhilfe im Wandel" (Ed.), Jugendhilfeforschung: Kontroversen – Transformationen – Adressierungen (pp. 265-276). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Konfliktfelder und Bildungsthematiken von Familien: Ein Beitrag zur sozialpädagogischen AdressatInnenforschung im Kontext von Familienbildung
2011 (German)In: Jugendhilfeforschung: Kontroversen – Transformationen – Adressierungen / [ed] Arbeitskreis "Jugendhilfe im Wandel", Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011, p. 265-276Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-27509 (URN)10.1007/978-3-531-93112-8_18 (DOI)9783531171142 (ISBN)9783531931128 (ISBN)
Available from: 2015-05-21 Created: 2015-05-21 Last updated: 2020-05-08Bibliographically approved
Bergs-Winkels, D., Koziel, S. & Buschorn, C. (2011). „Sure Start“ in Münster: ein Familienbildungsprojekt mit bildungsfernen und wirtschaftlich armen Familien. In: Klaus Fröhlich-Gildhoff & Iris Nentwig-Gesemann (Ed.), Forschung in der Frühpädagogik II: (pp. 197-221). Freiburg: FEL Verlag Forschung - Entwicklung - Lehre
Open this publication in new window or tab >>„Sure Start“ in Münster: ein Familienbildungsprojekt mit bildungsfernen und wirtschaftlich armen Familien
2011 (German)In: Forschung in der Frühpädagogik II / [ed] Klaus Fröhlich-Gildhoff & Iris Nentwig-Gesemann, Freiburg: FEL Verlag Forschung - Entwicklung - Lehre , 2011, p. 197-221Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Freiburg: FEL Verlag Forschung - Entwicklung - Lehre, 2011
Series
Materialien zur Frühpädagogik ; 3
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-27510 (URN)9783932650321 (ISBN)
Available from: 2015-05-21 Created: 2015-05-21 Last updated: 2019-02-26Bibliographically approved
Koziel, S. (2010). Lern- und Bildungsthematiken beim Übergang zur Elternschaft: Ein Beitrag zur sozialpädagogischen AdressatInnenforschung im Kontext von Familienbildung. (Doctoral dissertation). Dortmund: Technische Universität Dortmund
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Lern- und Bildungsthematiken beim Übergang zur Elternschaft: Ein Beitrag zur sozialpädagogischen AdressatInnenforschung im Kontext von Familienbildung
2010 (German)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [de]

Die Dissertation stellt einen Beitrag zur sozialpädagogischen AdressatInnenforschung im Kontext von Familienbildung dar. Das Ziel der Untersuchung richtete sich auf zwei Aspekte: Zum einen wurde eine Rekonstruktion der Lebenssituation der AdressatInnen angestrebt, zum zweiten wurden Anknüpfungspunkte, in Form von Lern- und Bildungsthematiken, für die Familienbildung herausgearbeitet. Im Fokus der Untersuchung steht die größte TeilnehmerInnengruppe von Familienbildung: Familien, die sich beim Übergang zur Elternschaft befinden (werdende Eltern sowie Eltern mit Kleinkindern). Darüber hinaus werden ‚benachteiligte’ Eltern berücksichtigt, die Zielgruppe also, die von Familienbildung nicht erreicht wird, jedoch erreicht werden soll. Bei der Untersuchung handelt es sich um eine qualitative Studie, bei der insgesamt 18 Mütter, Väter und Erziehungsberechtigte mit der Methode des problemzentrierten Interviews befragt wurden. Die Auswertung erfolgte in Anlehnung an die Grounded Theory und mündete in einer Typenbildung. Theoretische Anknüpfungspunkte bilden die Theorie der Familienerziehung von Mollenhauer, Brumlik und Wudtke (1975) sowie die strukturale Bildungstheorie von Marotzki (1990). Die Ergebnisse geben Einblick in die Lebenssituation der AdressatInnen und berücksichtigen Eltern, die sonst in der Forschung vernachlässigt werden (Eltern, die von der klassischen Kleinfamilie abweichen). Ein zentrales Ergebnis ist, dass die aktuelle (inhaltliche) Ausrichtung von Familienbildungsangeboten zu kurz greift und zum Ausschluss von Eltern führt, die vom Ideal der ‚Normalfamilie’ abweichen. Des Weiteren wurde aufgezeigt, dass das politisch und fachlich unterstellte Desinteresse ‚sozial benachteiligter’ Eltern an Familienbildung nicht haltbar ist. Vielmehr hat sich gezeigt, dass gerade Eltern, die von sozialer Ungleichheit betroffen sind, Familienbildung als Kompensation mangelnder Ressourcen nutzen. Die Ergebnisse geben Anhaltspunkte, über die Ausrichtung der Familienbildung kritisch zu reflektieren und zeigen Anknüpfungspunkte in Form von adressatInnenspezifischen Lern- und Bildungsthematiken auf.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Dortmund: Technische Universität Dortmund, 2010. p. 240
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-27506 (URN)
Available from: 2015-05-21 Created: 2015-05-21 Last updated: 2019-02-26Bibliographically approved
Koziel, S., Buschhorn, C. & Bergs-Winkels, D. (2009). Sure Start Münster: Familienbildung mit neuem Fokus. Standpunkt Sozial (3), 60-67
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sure Start Münster: Familienbildung mit neuem Fokus
2009 (German)In: Standpunkt Sozial, ISSN 0937-5791, no 3, p. 60-67Article in journal (Other academic) Published
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-27511 (URN)
Available from: 2015-05-21 Created: 2015-05-21 Last updated: 2019-02-26Bibliographically approved
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