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Dr FRANCESCA SALVI's Outputs (9)

'The sun was so thirsty it drank all the water!' Co-constructing pedagogies for environmental education in UK primary schools (2025)
Journal Article
Salvi, F., Wijaya-Mulya, T., Sabine, A., & Tjahjono, E. (in press). 'The sun was so thirsty it drank all the water!' Co-constructing pedagogies for environmental education in UK primary schools. Children's Geographies,

Children are often positioned as future leaders, yet given few opportunities to lead in their local communities-schools a prime example. In response to calls for more inclusive and child-led pedagogies, we carried out a study around the question: Wha... Read More about 'The sun was so thirsty it drank all the water!' Co-constructing pedagogies for environmental education in UK primary schools.

‘Grass, rice, and aubergine’: a case study of an Islamic eco-pesantren in Indonesia (2024)
Journal Article
Wijaya Mulya, T., & Salvi, F. (2024). ‘Grass, rice, and aubergine’: a case study of an Islamic eco-pesantren in Indonesia. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2024.2385049

Twenty-first-century environmental movements and education have been criticised as predominantly secular, middle-class and Western-originated. As such, their ability to generate momentum and increase uptake can be limited to individuals and groups wh... Read More about ‘Grass, rice, and aubergine’: a case study of an Islamic eco-pesantren in Indonesia.

Play and learn: Children's agency through the COVID‐19 pandemic in Mozambique (2022)
Journal Article
Di Napoli Pastore, M., & Salvi, F. (2023). Play and learn: Children's agency through the COVID‐19 pandemic in Mozambique. Children & Society, 37(1), 270-287. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12669

Social distancing, one of the measures adopted in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, profoundly impacted on the lives of children. The consequences were, however, not homogenous. By focusing on the daily practices of 41 Mozambican children aged 3–... Read More about Play and learn: Children's agency through the COVID‐19 pandemic in Mozambique.

Inhlawulo, Kin and Custom: Young men negotiating fatherhood and respectable masculinity (2022)
Book Chapter
Bhana, D., & Salvi, F. (2022). Inhlawulo, Kin and Custom: Young men negotiating fatherhood and respectable masculinity. In E. Moore (Ed.), Generation, Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa (86-101). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

When African teenagers in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa become fathers out of wedlock, cultural practices around the acknowledgement of paternity and the payment of damages are invoked. Damage payments refer to culturally embedded compen... Read More about Inhlawulo, Kin and Custom: Young men negotiating fatherhood and respectable masculinity.

The state and my happiness: Youth mental health, citizenship education and discursive contestations in contemporary Indonesia (2021)
Journal Article
Wijaya Mulya, T., Salvi, F., Gorczynski, P., Wells Brown, T., & Sims‐Schouten, W. (2022). The state and my happiness: Youth mental health, citizenship education and discursive contestations in contemporary Indonesia. Children & Society, 36(1), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12481

Complementing studies on youth mental health that were mainly depoliticised, this article offers a discursive examination of youth mental health in an Indonesian educational context. We argue that subject positions enabled by the discourse of mental... Read More about The state and my happiness: Youth mental health, citizenship education and discursive contestations in contemporary Indonesia.

The Regulation of Pregnancy in Mozambican Schools: From Policy, to Practice, to Identities (2019)
Journal Article
Salvi, F. (2019). The Regulation of Pregnancy in Mozambican Schools: From Policy, to Practice, to Identities. Comparative Education Review, 63(3), 337–355. https://doi.org/10.1086/703792

This article discusses how institutional practices reproduce and operationalize specific discourses of in-school pregnancy and motherhood in Mozambique. National Decree 39/ GM/2003 indicates that girls should be transferred to night courses if pregna... Read More about The Regulation of Pregnancy in Mozambican Schools: From Policy, to Practice, to Identities.

Teenage Pregnancy and Education in the Global South: The Case of Mozambique (2019)
Book
Salvi, F. (2019). Teenage Pregnancy and Education in the Global South: The Case of Mozambique. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351124768

Teenage pregnancy is seen as a problem by researchers and policymakers alike all over the world, but particularly so in the context of developing countries. Here, it is seen as an obstacle to personal and national development, exacerbating the gender... Read More about Teenage Pregnancy and Education in the Global South: The Case of Mozambique.

In the making: constructing in-school pregnancy in Mozambique (2016)
Journal Article
Salvi, F. (2018). In the making: constructing in-school pregnancy in Mozambique. Gender and Education, 30(4), 494-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2016.1219700

This article examines current in-school pregnancy policy in Mozambique, Decree 39/GM/2003, discussing how it discursively constructs in-school pregnancy as a problem, thereby raising the need to regulate its occurrence. Decree 39/GM/2003 indicates th... Read More about In the making: constructing in-school pregnancy in Mozambique.