ABSTRACT
This new edition of A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation brings together work from research and practice to reflect on some of the key developments in the field since the first edition published in 2010.
Subtitled ‘Conversations for Transformational Change’, the collection focuses on both ongoing and new discourses that enable us to advance thinking and practice to better understand what it means for participation to be transformational. Featuring all new content, it explores the developments that have been achieved in theory and practice in the last decade as well as the challenges and, indeed, the limitations of dominant participation approaches with children and young people in achieving genuine societal transformation. A key feature of the Handbook is the inclusion of young people as co-authors in many of the chapters.
Foregrounding aspects of participation as experienced by diverse groups of children and young people, the book especially illuminates the experiences and perspectives of participation relating to groups of children who face particular challenges, such as displaced children and children living with disabilities and young people from indigenous groups in a range of contexts.
The broad spectrum of debates that the text covers will be invaluable in challenging and transforming thinking and practice for a wide range of scholars, practitioners, activists and young people themselves. It will additionally be suitable for use on a wide range of courses including childhood and youth studies, sociology, law, political studies, community development, development studies, children’s rights, citizenship studies, education and social work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
part one|69 pages
Reflection
section Section one|25 pages
Continuing challenges
chapter 1|9 pages
Children's participation in transformational development
section Section two|41 pages
Intergenerational dynamics and the role of adults
chapter 4|7 pages
‘There was no fence’
chapter 8|9 pages
Transformative spaces
part two|117 pages
Learning
section Section one|39 pages
Participation as a learning process
chapter 10|9 pages
Politics, participation and the pandemic
chapter 11|10 pages
‘Hope in the present’
chapter 12|10 pages
Realisation of children's right to participate using Action Research principles
section Section two|43 pages
Children and young people as researchers
chapter 14|9 pages
From principles to practice
chapter 15|7 pages
Peer research, power and ethics
chapter 17|8 pages
Learning from experience
section Section three|31 pages
Participation seen from ‘above’ and ‘below’
chapter 19|7 pages
Children's participation in Aotearoa New Zealand
chapter 20|7 pages
Affecting change in different contexts
part three|118 pages
Action
section Section one|40 pages
Children and young people as activists
chapter 23|7 pages
Children and young people's activism in Brazil
chapter 25|8 pages
Being a young political actor
section Section two|38 pages
Children and young people contesting inequalities and striving for inclusion
chapter 27|8 pages
Political mobilization through everyday struggles
chapter 30|10 pages
Belonging and agency
section Section three|38 pages
Children and young people responding to the climate crisis