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Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential

Learning from across Countries

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. E. Kay M. Tisdall

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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  2. Andressa M. Gadda

    1. University of Strathclyde, UK

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  3. Udi Mandel Butler

    1. The International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood, Brazil

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Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Children and Young People’s Participation in Collective Decision-making

    • E. Kay M. Tisdall, Rachel Hinton, Andressa M. Gadda, Udi Mandel Butler
    Pages 1-21

  3. Reflections on Participation and Its Link with Transformative Processes

    • Kelly Teamey, Rachel Hinton
    Pages 22-43

  4. Decolonizing the Notion of Participation of Children and Young People

    • Savyasaachi, Udi Mandel Butler
    Pages 44-60

  5. Children and Young People’s Participation in Public Action in Brazil: Genealogies and Recent Innovations

    • Udi Mandel Butler, Marcelo Princeswal
    Pages 61-78

  6. Brazil’s Landless Movement and Children and Young People’s Participation

    • Marcelo Princeswal, Udi Mandel Butler
    Pages 79-90

  7. Children and Young People’s Participation in India: Framing Law, Policy and the Media

    • Saima Saeed
    Pages 91-112

  8. Transformative Participation: Experiences of a Children’s Sangam in Tamil Nadu (South India)

    • Carine Le Borgne
    Pages 113-129

  9. Unsettling Notions of Participation: A View from South Africa

    • Shirley Pendlebury, Patricia Henderson, Lucy Jamieson
    Pages 130-149

  10. Growing Up in a Time of AIDS: The Shining Recorders of Zisize

    • Helen Meintjes
    Pages 150-167

  11. Children Should Be Seen and Heard? Children and Young People’s Participation in the UK

    • E. Kay M. Tisdall
    Pages 168-188

  12. Transforming the Urban Environment: The EcoCity Project

    • Colin Morrison, Cathy McCulloch, Drew Mackie, Sandy Halliday, Howard Liddell
    Pages 189-207

  13. Conclusion: Unlearning Participation

    • Udi Mandel Butler, Kelly Teamey
    Pages 208-226

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 227-236
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    E. Kay M. Tisdall

  • University of Strathclyde, UK

    Andressa M. Gadda

  • The International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood, Brazil

    Udi Mandel Butler

About the editors

Sandy Halliday, Gaia Research, UK Patricia Henderson, Rhodes University, South Africa Rachel Hinton, Department for International Development, UK Carine Le Borgne, University of Edinburgh, UK Howard Liddell, Gaia Architects, UK Lucy Jamieson, University of Cape Town, South Africa Cathy McCulloch, Children's Parliament, UK Drew Mackie, Gaia Projects, UK Helen Meintjes, University of Cape Town, South Africa Colin Morrison, Children's Parliament, UK Shirley Pendlebury, University of Cape Town, South Africa Marcelo Princeswal, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Saima Saeed, Jamia Millia Islamia University, India Savyasaachi, Jamia Millia Islamia University, India Kelly Teamey, Freelance Researcher, UK   

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