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....
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 a...