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This book offers an analysis of childrens participation in formal, collective and participatory processes in six different international settings with a view to extending our learning about what helps or facilitates children and young peoples participation in decision-making to effect change. It considers the implications of this for the development of policy and practice around participation. This analysis is set in the context of historical and current discourses of participation, childhood studies, education and international development. It promotes an approach to childrens participation as relational, capacity building, and collaborative.
Children''s and young peoples right to participate has been increasingly acknowledged and taken up internationally, as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet much of this has focused on collecting childrens voices, rather than achieving change, and has met its limits. This book provides an analysis of childrens participation in formal, collective and action research processes in six different international settings. It offers a deeper understanding of what helps and facilitates children''s and young peoples participation through research, evaluation and decision-making to go beyond voice and effect change. This analysis is set in the context of historical and current discourses of participation, the sociology of childhood, contemporary anthropology, childrens geography and international development.
Themes addressed include time and processes in childrens participation, shifting and multiple identities of children, political and cultural contexts, places and spaces children inhabit, skills and capacities of adults, accountability and power. The analysis promotes an approach to childrens participation as relational and collaborative, and will contribute to answering some of the questions facing practitioners and researchers embarking on participatory enquiry with children and young people.
This is an invaluable book for practitioners and for scholars, postgraduates in anthropology, sociology, human geography, childhood studies, development studies, social policy, social work, community work, education, youth work and those with an interest in citizenship, childrens rights and human rights. Researchers and practitioners in UN, government and non-government services will also find it applicable to engaging with children and young people.
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