To browse Academia. A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation brings together key thinkers and practitioners from diverse contexts across the globe to provide an authoritative overview of contemporary theory and practice around children's participation. Promoting the participation of children and young people -in decision-making and policy development, and as active contributors to everyday family and community life -has become a central part of policy and programme initiatives in both majority and minority worlds.
This book presents the most useful recent work in children's participation as a resource for academics, students and practitioners in childhood studies, children's rights and welfare, child and family social work, youth and community work, governance, aid and development programmes. International Journal of Children's Rights, These 56 articles were analysed to identify trends, challenges and opportunities. The analysis found: a remarkably consistent narrative on participation over the 30 years; limitations on domains considered, geography and conceptual clarity; and far more written about challenges than solutions.
Drawing on these findings and considering the participation literature more generally, the article recommends that the field expands its geographic and intellectual boundaries, uses powerful co It ran from April until September We did this through a scoping of existing practitioner and academic literature developing a project-based literature review matrix , a mapping of key actors, and the development of a typology of existing approaches.
The article begins with reviewing the growth of this concept within development studies, including its ties with empowerment. The potential of performance-as-participation is more testing, valorising different ways of participation and communication, emphasizing creativity, affect and embodiment rather than rationality and governance.
Childhood-a Global Journal of Child Research, Children's participation is increasingly ambiguous and contested. Such complexity emerges in response to its emancipatory possibilities as well as unresolved tensions and power practices. The authors argue that closer attention must now be given to the interpretative milieu of children's participation, that is, to the act of dialogue that has emerged as central to the participatory process.
