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Towards a theory of children's participation

Nigel Thomas
- 01 Jan 2007 - 
- Vol. 15, Iss: 2, pp 199-218
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In this paper, the authors propose a framework for understanding what we mean when we talk about children's participation, by mapping some of the territory denoted by "children's participation" and looking at some ways of conceptualizing the field using a combination of existing models and new concepts from political and social theory.
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framework for understanding what we mean when we talk about ‘children’s participation’. It does this by mapping some of the territory denoted by ‘children’s participation’, reviewing some of the criticisms that have made of participatory practice, and looking at some ways of conceptualising the field using a combination of existing models and new concepts from political and social theory, in particular from the work of Young and Bourdieu.

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