Class and school councils are new concepts in Zambia in the work towards the childs right to participation as defined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child article 12. This Minor Field Study describes and analyses student participation through class and school councils in Copperbelt Provbince, Zambia, as a way of increasing the rights of the child at a school level and democracy at a national level. The study was conducted as a case study at a target high school and based on several observations, four focus-groups interviews with students and three semi-structured interviews with...