ISBN:
9781137316547
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (253 pages)
Series Statement:
Studies in Childhood and Youth Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.14
Keywords:
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Young adults..
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Children
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Young adults..
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Children
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Abstract:
Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Children and Young People's Participation in Collective Decision-making -- Origins of the cross-country network -- Children and young people's participation -- Subsequent chapters -- Note on terminology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Reflections on Participation and Its Link with Transformative Processes -- Introduction -- The power of language -- A brief history of participation -- Exploring connections between participation, transformation and learning -- Exploring indigenous cosmologies and ways of knowing -- Transformative processes and social movements -- Drawing together and moving forward -- Bibliography -- 3 Decolonizing the Notion of Participation of Children and Young People -- Historical origins and cultural roots of 'participation' -- Power and participation -- Appreciating the pluralistic possibilities of participation -- Listening to children and young people -- Decolonizing theorizing itself -- Questions to ponder -- Bibliography -- 4 Children and Young People's Participation in Public Action in Brazil: Genealogies and Recent Innovations -- Introduction -- Part I: Struggle and political repression, the difficult construction of democracy -- Part II: The building of a democratic state and the key spaces of public action -- Part III: Deepening democratic participation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5 Brazil's Landless Movement and Children and Young People's Participation -- Introduction -- The development of the MST -- Children and young people in the MST -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6 Children and Young People's Participation in India: Framing Law, Policy and the Media -- Introduction.
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