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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455146703321

Titolo

A handbook of children and young people's participation [[electronic resource] ] : perspectives from theory and practice / / edited by Barry Percy-Smith and Nigel Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-26763-4

1-282-25724-2

1-78034-676-X

9786612257247

0-203-87107-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Percy-SmithBarry

ThomasNigel <1950->

Disciplina

305.23

323/.042083

Soggetti

Children's rights

Participation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part I Children's participation: Progress and challenges; 1 The realisation of children's participation rights: Critical reflections; 2 Challenges of participatory practice with children; 3 Children's participation in Bangladesh: Issues of agency and structures of violence; Part II Learning about children's participation in practice; 4 Children's participation in armed conflict and postconflict peace building; 5 The participation of children living in the poorest and most difficult situations

6 Dikwankwetla - Children in Action: Children's participation in the law reform process in South AfricaCommentary 1: Participation in contexts of social change; 7 Younger children's individual participation in 'all matters affecting the child'; 8 Disabled children and participation in the UK: Reality or rhetoric?; 9 Participation among young people with



mental health issues: Redefining the boundaries; 10 Advocacy for children in family group conferences: Reflections on personal and public decision making; Commentary 2: Reflections on the participation of particular groups

11 Questioning understandings of children's participation: Applying a cross-cultural lens12 The construction of childhood and the socialisation of children in Ghana: Implications for the implementation of Article 12 of the CRC; 13 Youth participation in indigenous traditional communities; Commentary 3: Participation in the traps of cultural diversity; 14 Rights through evaluation and understanding children's realities; 15 Children's participation in school and community: European perspectives

16 Building towards effective participation: A learning-based network approach to youth participation17 Getting the measure of children and young people's participation: An exploration of practice in Wales; Commentary 4: Methods and frameworks; 18 'No one ever listens to us': Challenging obstacles to the participation of children and young people in Rwanda; 19 Child reporters as agents of change; 20 'Pathways to participation' revisited: Learning from Nicaragua's child coffee workers; 21 Students as professionals: The London Secondary School Councils Action Research Project

Commentary 5: On strategies and practices22 Children's participation in citizenship and governance; 23 Maintaining the status quo?: Appraising the effectiveness of youth councils in Scotland; 24 More than crumbs from the table: A critique of youth parliaments as models of representation for marginalised young people; 25 Nil desperandum as long as you carpe diem; 26 In search of agency: Participation in a youth organisation in Turkey; Commentary 6: Spaces and structures Looking from the outside; PART III New theoretical perspectives

27 Children's participation as a struggle over recognition: Exploring the promise of dialogue

Sommario/riassunto

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 par



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463293103321

Autore

French Robert

Titolo

Attention, cooperation, purpose : an approach to working in groups using insights from Wilfred Bion / / by Robert French

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2014

ISBN

0-429-89688-3

0-367-10270-6

0-429-47211-0

1-78241-280-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

616.891703

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE Attention; CHAPTER TWO Distraction; CHAPTER THREE Truth; CHAPTER FOUR Cooperation; CHAPTER FIVE Purpose; CHAPTER SIX Forms of interaction; CHAPTER SEVEN Learning the work of attention; REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes an approach based on attention that can help individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively. It presents the first book-length reassessment of Wilfred Bion's ideas on groups. Every group has a purpose or purposes - or, as Bion put it, "every group, however casual, meets to 'do' something." The approach described here shows how individual group members' use of attention - both broad or "evenly suspended" and focused - can promote a better understanding of purpose, making it possible for them to do what they have met to do. This work of attention enables group members to maintain a clear sense of their purpose and also to recognise how easily they can become distracted, losing focus and dispersing their energies into activities that are off task. The approach builds on the authors' experience of using Bion's insights into group dynamics over twenty-



five years in different contexts, formal and informal, as group members, managers, leaders, teachers, consultants, researchers, family members, and friends.