Session plan for parallel session # 8

Social Indicators of Children Well Being

Day 1: Wednesday June 29, 2005

Time slots Module Title of session, facilitator and abstracts to be involved

10.30 – 12:30
Georg Sverdrups Hus
Grupperom 7 / Paper session / Social Theory and Social Indicators
Chair: Kris Moore
106774 – Ivar Frones (Theorizing Indicators)
124881 - Sauri, G. (Children’s Rights as a Indicators
framework in Mexico)
103582 – Casas, F. et.al. (Aspired values and well being
in adolescents 12-16 years old)
94653 – Mason, J., Fattore, T & Watson, E. (Children’s
conceptualization(s) of their well being
12.30-13.30 / Lunch
13.30 – 15:00
Georg Sverdrups Hus
Grupperom 7 / Paper session / What do Children think?
Chair: TBA
102069 – Asher Ben-Arieh (Beyond the numbers: How do we monitor the state of our children)
94287 – Willenberg, I. (Children’s understanding of well
being in South Africa)
93910 – Taimalu et al. (Children’s fears as indicators of
Children’s well being in social change)
93788 – Fabiansson, C. (Youth’s perception of being Safe
– Globally and Locally)
16.00 – 17.00 / Poster session / 98881 – Jutengren, G & Palmrus K. (The Potential of
conflict resolution schemes in adolescent
psychological adjustment)

Day 2: Thursday June 30, 2005

Time slots Module Title of session, facilitator and abstracts to be involved

10.30 – 12:30
Georg Sverdrups Hus
Grupperom 7 / Paper session / Measuring and Monitoring Children’s Well-Being
Chair: Gerardo Sauri
92439 – Baran, Jolanta (Education and Development of
Children with Disabilities)
103591 – Casas, Ferran (Twelve to Sixteen year-old
adolescents and their own parents well-being)
103730 – Goerge, Robert (A comprehensive Assessment
of the Well Being of 13-14 year olds in Chicago)
104724 – Alt, Christian (The German Longitudinal Study
about Childhood)
102447 – Hood, Suzanne (Reporting on Children’s well
being: the state of London’s children’s reports)
12:30–13:30 / Lunch
13.30 – 15:00
Georg Sverdrups Hus
Grupperom 7 / Paper session / Using indicators to make a difference
Chair: TBA
103291 – Chowdhury, Aparajita (Family Life in India and
Child Mental Health)
87493 – Horsley, K. & Ciske, S. (Mapping School
Readiness for Community action)
93384 – Rabiee, P. et. al. (Desired outcomes for disabled
children: indicators of well being for the children and
their families)

Day 3: Friday July 1, 2005

Time slots Module Title of session, facilitator and abstracts to be involved

10.30 – 12:30
Georg Sverdrups Hus
Grupperom 7 / Paper session / Multi-national efforts to measure and monitor children’s well being
Chair: Mark Small
87029 – Sauri, G; Scott, K; Sykes, N; Reidy, Mairead
(TheChildren in North America Indicators initiative)
103602 – Pavlovic, Z., Rutar, T. (CRISP – Children’s
rights international study project)
108076 – Sulova, Lenka (The History of Child Research
in Eastern and Central Europe)
104503 – Finet, Dayna (Border KIDS COUNTS: child
and family well being in the US/Mexico border)
108074 – Kvapilova Erica (Child Research networks in
Eastern and Central Europe)
92394 – Smith M.A. & Dixon J. (Changes and
Disruptions in Children’s lives
12:30–13:30 / Lunch
13.30 – 15:00
Georg Sverdrups Hus
Grupperom 7 / Forum session / "Childwatch networking in Central and Eastern Europe"
108056 Small, Mark (From Bratislava to Budapest: Progress in Creating a Network of Child Researchers in Eastern and Central Europe)
As a follow up of the papers presented by Erica Kvapilova, Lenka Sulova and Zoran Pavlovic in the morning session: “Multi-national efforts to measure and monitor children’s well being”, representatives from research institutions in Central and Eastern Europe are invited to discuss mechanisms for productive networking in the region.

Day 4: Saturday July 2, 2005

Time slots Module Title of session, facilitator and abstracts to be involved

10.30 – 12:30
Georg Sverdrups Hus
Grupperom 7 / Paper session
30 minutes / The impact of indicators on child policy
Chair: Ivar Frones
124901 -Kristin Anderson Moore (How can we increasethe usefulness of indicators for policies andprograms?)
91803 – Brizzio, Aracell (Necessity to adapt the bases of
data to the approach of the CDN)
102269 – Hanafin, S. & Brooks, AM (Achieving
consensus in developing a national set of child well
being indicators)
92227 – Nyland et.al. (Early childhood in China: the role
of the state in provision of early childhood practice)
102066 – Ben-Arieh et. al. (Indicators of family and
children well being: findings for a comparative study
in NYC and Tel-Aviv)
90561 – Yeung, Wei-Jun and Hao, Lingxin (How do race and class shape childhood consumption inequality?)
12:30–13:30 / Lunch
13.30 – 15:00
Georg Sverdrups Hus
Grupperom 7 / Forum session / Establishing an international society for measuring and monitoring children’s well being
Facilitator: Asher Ben-Arieh
Discussants: To be announced

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