A handbook of children and young people's participation
Subtitle: perspectives from theory and practice
By: Barry Percy-Smith and Nigel Thomas.
Contributors: Thomas, Nigel, 1950-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780203871072
Subjects: Children's rights; Participation
Description: 'A Handbook of Children's Participation' brings key thinkers and practitioners from across the globe together to provide an authoritative overview of contemporary theory and practice around children's participation.
Table of contents: title: The realisation of children's participation rights : critical reflections / Gerison Lansdown; title: Challenges of participatory practice with children / Karen Malone and Catherine Hartung; title: Children's participation in Bangladesh : issues of agency and structures of violence / Sarah White and Shyamol Choudhury; title: Children's participation in armed conflict and post conflict peace building / Clare Feinstein, Annette Giertsen and Claire O'Kane; title: The participation of children living in the poorest and most difficult situations / Patricia Ray; title: Children in action : children's participation in the law reform process in South Africa / Lucy Jamieson and Wanjiru Mukoma; title: Younger children's individual participation in "all matters affecting the child" / Priscilla Alderson; title: Disabled children and participation in the UK : reality or rhetoric? / Anita Franklin and Kate Martin; title: Participation among young people with mental health issue : redefining the boundaries / Ann Dadich; title: Advocacy for children in family group conferences : reflections on personal and public decision making / Perpetua Kirby and Sophie Laws; title: Questioning understandings of children's participation : applying a cross-cultural lens / Jan Mason, Natalie Bolzan, and colleagues; title: The construction of childhood and the socialisation of children in Ghana : implications for the implementation of article 12 of the CRC / Afua Twum-Danso; title: Youth participation in indigenous traditional communities / Yolanda Corona Caraveo, Carlos Perez and Julián Hernández; title: Rights through evaluation and understanding children's realities / Vicky Johnson; title: Children's participation in school and the local community : lessons from an international project / Renate Kr'nzl-Nagl and Ulrike Zartler; title: Building towards effective participation : a learning-based network approach to youth participation / Tiina Sotkasiira, Lotta Haikkola, and Liisa Horelli; title: Getting the measure of children and young people's participation : an exploration of practice in Wales / Anne Crowley and Anna Skeels; title: "No one ever listens to us" : challenging obstacles to the participation of children and young people in Rwanda / Kirrily Pells; title: Child reporters as agents of change / Lalatendu Acharya; title: "Pathways to participation" revisited : learning from Nicaragua's child coffee-workers / Harry Shier; title: "Students as professionals" : the London Secondary School Councils action research project / Hiromi Yamashita and Lynn Davies; title: Children's participation in citizenship and governance / Sara Austin; title: Maintaining the status quo : appraising the effectiveness of youth councils in Scotland / Brian McGinley, Ann Grieve, and Andrea Reynolds; title: More than crumbs from the table : critiquing youth parliaments as models of representation for marginalised young people / Alan Turkie; title: Nil desperandum as long as you carpe diem / Jack Lewars; title: In search of agency : participation in a youth organisation in Turkey / Fahriye Sancar and Yucel Severcan; title: Children's participation as a struggle over recognition : exploring the promise of dialogue / Robyn Fitzgerald, Anne Graham, Anne Smith, and Nicola Taylor; title: Children and deliberative democracy / Tom Cockburn; title: Governance and participation / Kay Tisdall; title: After participation : the socio-spatial performance of intergenerational becoming / Greg Mannion; title: Children as active citizens : an agenda for children's civil rights and civic engagement / Joachim Theis.