L4WB Magazine 3: Engaged Participation

Engaged Participation

Editorial by Jean Gordon & Linda O'Toole

Change for the better in our society can only come about through involving everyone, children and adults, in decisions that affect their lives. Engaged participation is about having some control over your own life in the context where you live.

Editorial:

Engaged Participation

Jean Gordon & Linda O'Toole

Viewpoint 1:

‘The tempting range’, Middlemarch, and me

Ted Simonds

Viewpoint 2: Why I’ve become involved in organisations and activities based on children’s rights, in particular the right to participation?

Polyxeni Papageorgiou

Quest for Inclusion:

a Story of Active Participation

Jacqueline Tordoir

Strategies for discussing and managing power dynamics in inter-generational groups

Bijan Kimiagar & Ayşenur Ataman

Hearing All Voices – Transforming the Lives of Vulnerable Youth: The power of participation

Carolyn Conway, Grazyna Bonati, Liz Arif-Fear, Tricia Young

Making the youth’s voice heard: The story of a child can change the world

Tako Rietveld

Children’s natural curiosity – the basis for the Children’s International Press Centre: Engaged participation from the home and the classroom to the world around

Elise Sijthoff

Another world is needed; together it is possible: The experience of the Social Forum in Ivry sur Seine (France)

Marie-Thérèse & Jean-Guy Dufour

Khulani Nande – Grow More

Carol Gorelick

Not another article on social inclusion: youngsters with disabilities, the hidden gem of youth work