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‘We can play tag with a stick’. Children's knowledge, experiences, feelings and creative thinking during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Waboso Nwakerendu,
Donison Laurel,
Raby Rebecca,
Harding Evan,
Sheppard Lindsay C.,
Grossman Keely,
Myatt Haley,
Black Sara
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12579
Subject(s) - viewpoints , feeling , pandemic , reflexivity , agency (philosophy) , isolation (microbiology) , covid-19 , psychology , social psychology , sociology , social science , medicine , art , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , microbiology and biotechnology , visual arts , biology
Using a relational approach, we draw on repeated interviews with a group of 30 diverse children from Ontario to share and reflect on their knowledge, experiences and feelings early in the COVID‐19 pandemic. Prioritising relational interdependence and relational agency, this paper illustrates our participants' embedded engagements with the pandemic and their contribution to the co‐production of knowledge. We emphasise their thoughtful responses to the pandemic; their creative, self‐reflexive strategies for managing a difficult time; and their advice to others. We thus prioritise children's viewpoints and emphasise their relational interconnections with others during a time that was marked by social isolation.