A handbook of children and young people's participation: perspectives from theory and practice
London ; New York
Routledge
2010
xxii, 378 p.: ill.; 25 cm
edited by Barry Percy-Smith and Nigel Thomas
The realisation of children's participation rights: critical reflections / Gerison Lansdown -- Challenges of participatory practice with children / Karen Malone and Catherine Hartung -- Children's participation in Bangladesh: issues of agency and structures of violence / Sarah White and Shyamol Choudhury -- Children's participation in armed conflict and post conflict peace building / Clare Feinstein, Annette Giertsen and Claire O'Kane -- The participation of children living in the poorest and most difficult situations / Patricia Ray -- Dikwankwetla-- children in action: children's participation in the law reform process in South Africa / Lucy Jamieson and Wanjiru Mukoma -- Younger children's individual participation in "all matters affecting the child" / Priscilla Alderson -- Disabled children and participation in the UK: reality or rhetoric? / Anita Franklin and Kate Martin -- Participation among young people with mental health issue: redefining the boundaries / Ann Dadich -- Advocacy for children in family group conferences: reflections on personal and public decision making / Perpetua Kirby and Sophie Laws -- Questioning understandings of children's participation: applying a cross-cultural lens / Jan Mason and Natalie Bolzan -- The construction of childhood and the socialisation of children in Ghana: implications for the implementation of article 21 of the CRC / Afua Twum-Danso -- Youth participation in indigenous traditional communities / Yolanda Corona Caraveo, Carlos Perez and Julian Hernandez -- Rights through evaluation and understanding children's realities / Vicky Johnson -- Children's participation in school and community: European perspectives / Renate Kr'nzl-Nagl and Ulrike Zartler -- Building towards effective participation: a learning-based network approach to youth participation / Tiina Sotkasiira, Lotta Haikkola, and Liisa Horelli -- Getting the measure of children and young people's participation: an exploration of practice in Wales / Anne Crowley and Anna Skeels -- "No one ever listens to us": challenging obstacles to the participation of children and young people in Rwanda / Kirrily Pells -- Child reporters as agents of change / Lalatendu Acharya -- "Pathways to participation" revisited: learning from Nicaragua's child coffee-workers / Harry Shier -- "Students as professionals": the London Secondary School Councils action research project / Hiromi Yamashita and Lynn Davies -- Children's participation in citizenship and governance / Sara L. Austin -- Maintaining the status quo: appraising the effectiveness of youth councils in Scotland / Brian McGinley and Ann Grieve -- More than crumbs from the table: a critique of youth parliaments as models of representation for marginalised young people / Alan Turkie -- Nil desperandum as long as you carpe diem / Jack Lewars -- In search of agency: participation in a youth organisation in Turkey / Fahriye Sancar and Yucel Can Severcan -- Children's participation as a struggle over recognition: exploring the promise of dialogue / Robyn Fitzgerald, Anne Graham, Anne Smith, and Nicola Taylor -- Children and deliberative democracy in England / Tom Cockburn -- Governance and participation / E. Kay M. Tisdall -- After participation: the socio-spatial performance of intergenerational becoming / Greg Mannion -- Children as active citizens: an agenda for children's civil rights and civic engagement / Joachim Theis