This book presents a range of innovative analytical frameworks that can be used to approach the complexities of children¿s understandings and experiences of well-being in a locally oriented, context-sensitive and multi-nationally comparative way. It addresses the challenges of undertaking research on children¿s understandings of well-being from a multi-national qualitative perspective. Chapters in the book present results that show how children from various places all over the world conceptualize and experience well-being as well as how this is linked local, regional and national social, political and cultural contexts.

One of the first studies on children's well-being utilizing a comparative qualitative approach

Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Analytical Approaches and Child Well-being: Developments and Challenges (Tobia Fattore).- Part 2. Approaches to Analysing Children's Well-being.- Chapter 2. Well-being as a Cultural Construct: Children¿s Perspectives and Discourse Practise (Susann Fegter).- Chapter 3. Intersectionality as an Approach to Unfold Social Inequalities Within Concepts of Well-being of Children in Azerbaijan and Germany (Christine Hunner-Kreisel).- Chapter 4. Well-being and Socially Valued Resources: Analytical Processes from the Australian Fieldwork Experience (Gabrielle Drake).- Chapter 5. Children's Conceptualisations of Well-Being and the Relationship with their Lived Experiences: The Challenges of Developing a Fresh Analytical Framework (Colette McAuley).- Chapter 6. A New Theoretical Framework for the Study of Children's Experiences of Well-being (Daniel Stoecklin).- Part 3. Methodological Interrogations of Children's Well-being.- Chapter 7. The Contribution of Qualitative Methodologies for a Comprehensive Analysis on Subjective Well-being in Children (Joana Alexandre).- Chapter 8. Children's Delphi: A Participatory Methodological Framework for Developing Child Well-being Indicators (Shazly Savahl).- Chapter 9. The Use of Focus Groups for Improving Data Collection and Interpretation in the Context of Children's Subjective Well-being Assessment (Mònica González-Carrasco).- Part 4. Empirical Explorations in Analysing Children's Well-being.- Chapter 10. Children's Understanding of Subjective Well-being: Findings from a Study in Rural Punjab (Ravinder Barn).- Chapter 11. Children's Subjective Well-being Situated in a Social Location (Basak Akkan).- Chapter 12. Understanding Children's Subjective Well-being: A Case Study of City Children in Uttar Pradesh India (Vinod Chandra).- Chapter 13. Children¿s Feeling of Security (Graciela Tonon).- Part 5. Conclusion.- Chapter 14. Reflections on Analysing Children's Well-being (Tobia Fattore).