Children's Participation in Global Contexts: Going Beyond Voice

ISBN-13: 9781138929791 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str.

Anne Crowley; Vicky Johnson

Opis

Increasingly children and young people s right to participate as expressed in Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been acknowledged internationally. This book offers an analysis of children s participation in formal, collective and participatory processes in six different international settings to understand what helps or facilitates children and young people s participation in decision-making to effect change. This analysis is set in the context of historical and current discourses of participation, childhood studies, education and international development.

Themes addressed include:

• Skills and capacities of workers/adults
• Time frames in decision-making processes
• Spaces for children s participation
• Accountability and power
• Relational dialogue and what you do with whom

The book considers the implications of this for the development of policy and practice around participation. It promotes an approach to children s participation as relational, capacity building, and collaborative. It uniquely acknowledges the importance of voice, but demonstrate through case studies that this approach has met its limits. The book concludes with an examination of the far reaching implications for policy and practice of these findings.

This is an invaluable book for scholars, postgraduates and practitioners in childhood studies, children s rights, development studies, politics, social policy, social work. It is also relevant for courses in social and community work, education, early years, youth work, sociology, social policy and development studies."

Spis treści

PART I: INTRODUCTION – BEYOND VOICE  1. Introduction: following the Journey of Voice  PART II: CONSTRUCTING CHILDHOOD AND CHILDREN’S PARTICIPATION  2. Constructions of Childhood   3. Constructing Children’s Participation  PART III: SETTING THE SCENE IN ASIA AND THE UK  4. Cases of Children’s Participation in Global Contexts  5. Creative and Participatory Methods and Revisits with Children  PART IV: THEMES FOR POLICY AND PRACTICE  6. Reflections on Participation Processes  7. Children’s identities and capacities in process  8. Places and Spaces for Children’s Participation  9. Skills and Capacities of Workers and Participants  10. Power and Accountability  PART V: CONCLUSION: GOING BEYOND VOICE  11. Conclusion