| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 社會政策與社會工作學系 === 106 === Abstract
This study aimed to explore the views of supervisors of child and youth welfare agencies toward the right to play, and the strategies these agencies adopted to implement and advocate the right to play. The study further explored the challenges that the interviewees encountered while they implemented and advocated the right to play and how they worked to respond to those challenges. Finally, based on the research findings, related suggestions were proposed to serve as references for the government and non- profit organizations.
This study adopted qualitative research and conducted semi-structural interviews with six interviewees. The interview data were analyzed using the Analytic Hierarchy method. Main research findings were shown below.
I. Interpretation on play
4. The characteristics of play: Children often used equipment, and play could let them feel enjoyable. Play was also children’s inherent needs and could cultivate their competence.
5. The functions of play: Play was helpful to enhance children’s confidence and self-concept, establish positive friendship and parent-children relationship, and also reinforce children’s learning motivation.
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6. The two main roles adults played in children’s games were evaluators and designers.
II. Interpretation on the right to play
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Time, space, free to choose, safety, and phases of development were the conditions to implement the right to play.
The reasons that the right to play had been neglected were proposed by the interviewees. These included that people of the Chinese culture did not regard play as an important task. The services of the right to play were not treated as the priority in children and youth’s agencies. Besides, parents’ attitudes would change according to the age of their own children.
III. The
implemented the right to play in the agencies
tactics, challenges and coping strategies of the interviewees while they
3. The interviewees proposed five strategies to implement the right to play. These included using play to accomplish other service objectives and starting up the right to play as one of the key services. Children could make subjective decisions in their activities. Agencies became the endorsers of the right to play and also protected the right to play of children with special needs.
4. The challenges that agencies encountered when implementing the right to play included shortage of funds, people being unfamiliar with the services provided by agencies, the public constructions were complicated to solve, the traffic was not facilitated, the law was imperfect, and domestic problems.
5. Responses to these challenges: Agencies tried to expand new resources, make V
more advertising, learn the public constructions from the beginning, use different ways to enhance the accessibility of services, cooperate with legislators, and discover and solve those domestic problems.
IV. The tactics, challenges and coping strategies of the interviewees when they advocated the right to play in the agencies
3. Six strategies to advocate the right to play were proposed by the interviewees. These included announcing research findings, participating in meetings and expressing their opinions, making alliance among agencies, promoting concepts on the right to play, lawmaking or administrative lobbying, and presenting new issues in work reports.
4. The challenges that these agencies faced while advocating the right to play were proposed, including that they couldn’t get consensus easily in meetings, workers didn’t have enough capability, and children lacked the right consciousness.
5. Responses to these challenges: Using the tracing mechanism of the meeting, finding external resources to enhance workers’ capabilities, and looking for more knowledgeable children to be the representatives in order to enhance the knowledge of the employees when guiding related groups.
Based on the research findings, this research proposed the following suggestions:
1. In practices: Agencies could increase the playtime to observe children’s play and do more comprehensive evaluations. During the home visiting, workers could try to influence parents’ views on play. Agencies should also invest more
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resources to train those vulnerable children to become the representatives or allow other representatives to fully recognize what difficulties children met. Last, agencies may systematically organize the work experiences and construct spreadable knowledge of play and the right to play to promote them.
2. In policies: The government should review current resources and activate current buildings. The conditions of current resource distribution should be reviewed carefully as well. The government should also fully implement the right to play and encourage non-profit organizations to promote the right to play in different ways.
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