Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential Learning from across Countries

by Tisdall, E. Kay M.; Gadda, Andressa M.; Butler, Udi Mandel

• ISBN13: 9780230348677
• ISBN10: 023034867X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-09-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Participation has become a rallying cry for those committed to respecting children and young people as social actors in their own right, as a part of communities and societies. Yet children and young people's participation has faced considerable challenges in realizing the rhetoric, with concerns being raised that too much emphasis has been placed on the process of participation and too little emphasis on its broader aim.

This book brings together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK on the theme of children and young people's involvement in public action. It explores the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative and to challenge social and cultural structures that reproduce inequality and oppression. This book will be particularly appealing to those interested in children's rights, childhood and youth studies, and development studies.

Author Biography

E. Kay M. Tisdall is Professor of Childhood Policy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is Programme Director of the MSc in Childhood Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.
 
Andressa M. Gadda is a Research Associate at the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS), at the University of Strathclyde, UK.
 
Udi M. Butler is a Research Fellow at the International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood (CIESPI) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Children and Young People's Participation in Collective Decision-Making; E. Kay M. Tisdall, Rachel Hinton, Andressa M. Gadda and Udi M. Butler

2. Reflections on Participation and its Link with Transformative Processes; Kelly Teamy and Rachel Hinton

3. De-Colonising the Notion of Participation of Children and Young People; Savyasaachi and Udi M. Butler

4. Children and Young People's Participation in Public Action in Brazil: Genealogies and Recent Innovations; Udi M. Butler and Marcelo Princeswal

5. Brazil's Landless Movement and Children and Young People's Participation; Udi M. Butler and Marcelo Princeswal

6. Children and Young People's Participation in India: Framing Law, Policy and the Media; S. Saeed

7. Transformative Participation: Experiences of a Children's Sangam in Tamil Nadu, South India; C. Le Borgne

8. Unsettling Notions of Participation: A View from South Africa; Shirley Pendlebury, Patricia Henderson, and Lucy Jamieson

9. Growing up in the Time of AIDS: The Shining Recorders of Zisize; Helen Meintjes

10. Children should be Seen and Heard? Children and Young People's Participation in the UK; E. Kay M. Tisdall

11. Transforming the Urban Environment: the EcoCity Project; Colin Morrison, Cathy McCulloch, Drew Mackie, Sandy Halliday and Howard Liddell

12. Conclusion: Unlearning Participation; E. Kay M. Tisdall and Kelly Teamy