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List of illustrations | p. x |
List of contributors | p. xii |
Foreword | p. xix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Children's participation: progress and challenges | p. 9 |
The realisation of children's participation rights: critical reflections | p. 11 |
Challenges of participatory practice with children | p. 24 |
Children's participation in Bangladesh: issues of agency and structures of violence | p. 39 |
Learning about children's participation in practice | p. 51 |
Working in particular situations | p. 53 |
Children's participation in armed conflict and post-conflict peace building | p. 53 |
The participation of children living in the poorest and most difficult situations | p. 63 |
Dikwankwetla-Children in Action: children's participation in the law reform process in South Africa | p. 73 |
Commentary 1 | p. 83 |
Working with particular groups | p. 88 |
Younger children's individual participation in 'all matters affecting the child' | p. 88 |
Disabled children and participation in the UK: reality or rhetoric? | p. 97 |
Participation among young people with mental health issues: redefining the boundaries | p. 105 |
Advocacy for children in family group conferences: reflections on personal and public decision making | p. 113 |
Commentary 2 | p. 121 |
Working in particular cultural contexts | p. 125 |
Questioning understandings of children's participation: applying a cross-cultural lens | p. 125 |
The construction of childhood and the socialisation of children in Ghana: implications for the implementation of Article 12 of the CRC | p. 133 |
Youth participation in indigenous traditional communities | p. 141 |
Commentary 3 | p. 150 |
Methods and frameworks | p. 154 |
Rights through evaluation and understanding children's realities | p. 154 |
Children's participation in school and community: European perspectives | p. 164 |
Building towards effective participation: a learning-based network approach to youth participation | p. 174 |
Getting the measure of children and young people's participation: an exploration of practice in Wales | p. 184 |
Commentary 4 | p. 193 |
Strategies and practices | p. 196 |
'No one ever listens to us': challenging obstacles to the participation of children and young people in Rwanda | p. 196 |
Child reporters as agents of change | p. 204 |
'Pathways to participation' revisited: learning from Nicaragua's child coffee-workers | p. 215 |
Students as professionals: the London Secondary School Councils Action Research Project | p. 230 |
Commentary 5 | p. 240 |
Spaces and structures | p. 245 |
Children's participation in citizenship and governance | p. 245 |
Maintaining the status quo? Appraising the effectiveness of youth councils in Scotland | p. 254 |
More than crumbs from the table: a critique of youth parliaments as models of representation for marginalised young people | p. 262 |
Nil desperandum as long as you carpe diem | p. 270 |
In search of agency: participation in a youth organisation in Turkey | p. 277 |
Commentary 6 | p. 287 |
New theoretical perspectives | p. 291 |
Children's participation as a struggle over recognition: exploring the promise of dialogue | p. 293 |
Children and deliberative democracy in England | p. 306 |
Governance and participation | p. 318 |
After participation: the socio-spatial performance of intergenerational becoming | p. 330 |
Children as active citizens: an agenda for children's civil rights and civic engagement | p. 343 |
Conclusion: Emerging themes and new directions | p. 356 |
Index | p. 367 |
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