Eliciting young children’s ‘voice’ in low-income areas in England: recognising their mutuality of being

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Table 1. Adaptation of a theoretical framework of child well-being.

Theoretical orientation	Social construction of children mainly as …	Key concepts privileged	Concept dimension emphasised
Distributive approach: Primary Goods Theory (Rawls 1971)	Vulnerable only Tabula rasa Future adults	Becomings Havings	Individual/Self defining Distribution of resources to provide equal means to become
Distributive approach: Capability Theory (Sen 1999; Nussbaum 2013)	Vulnerable- only Tabula rasa Future adults	Beings & Doings	Individual unit of moral concern
		Becomings	Self-defining
		Havings	Distribution of resources according to self-defined goals that people value and have reason to value
Relational approach: Relational well-being (White 2015)	Capable social actors	Belonging	Mutuality of beings and doings
			Interdependent with others, and temporal & spatial contexts

Table 2. Participants.

Participant	Ethnicity	Number of children (under the age of five)	Family eligible for government funding of early education for their two-year old children? (proxy for relative poverty status)
Imani	Black African	3 (1)	Yes
Lisa	White British	2 (1)	Yes
Adenike	Black African	2 (2)	No
Rachel	White British	2 (2)	Yes
Michelle	White British	5 (1)	Yes
Stacy	White British	3 (2)	Yes
Ewa	White European	1 (1)	Yes

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