儿童主体能动性概念溯源及其理论进展

Tracing the Roots and Progress in Theories of Children’s Agency

儿童主体能动性研究在国际范围内获得广泛关注,其概念正在被重新审视。主体能动性存在内在的紧张关系,即主体能动性与社会结构、个人的能动性与社会的能动性的二元对立。这一紧张关系被儿童主体能动性理论直接移植,并在新童年社会学与《儿童权利公约》的推动下进一步加剧。在调和及其超越这一紧张关系的背景下,儿童主体能动性研究呈现四种不同的理论进路:自由主义范式、社会文化范式、后结构主义范式与实用主义范式。四种范式的理论解释力及在经验研究中的影响各有不同。对于我国学者来说,在开展相关研究的过程中,不仅要把握儿童主体能动性研究的核心论争与前沿趋势,参与到儿童主体能动性研究的学术建构中,也要助力打破全球北方的主导局面,发出中国学术的声音。

The exploration of children’s agency has attracted considerable interest worldwide,with a renewed focus on its conceptualization.Children’s agency embodies a fundamental dichotomy between individual and societal agency,and between children’s agency and social structures.This dichotomy is deeply embedded in the theory of children’s agency and has been intensified by developments in the new sociology of childhood and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.In the context of navigating and surpassing this dichotomy,studies on children’s agency have evolved into four main theoretical frameworks:the liberal,the socio-cultural,the post-structuralist,and the pragmatic paradigms.Each framework provides unique theoretical insights and impacts empirical research differently.For Chinese researchers,delving into this area not only means engaging with the central debates and forefront developments of children’s agency studies but also contributing to the scholarly development of this research area.Moreover,it entails challenging the predominance of the Global North in this domain to amplify the presence of Chinese academic perspectives.