Child and Youth Participation in Policy, Practice and Research
This book showcases rights-based participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research with children and youth.
Throughout its three parts, the book conceptualises a rights-based participatory approach; showcases constructive and innovative rights-based participatory approaches across the domains of research, policy and practice; and interrogates the challenges and complexities in the implementation of such an approach. In recent times, Ireland has been at the forefront of promoting and implementing participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research focused on children and youth. This edited volume is a timely opportunity to capture previously undocumented learning generated from a wide range of innovative participatory initiatives implemented in Ireland. In capturing this learning, real-world guidance will be provided to international policy-makers, practitioners and researchers working with children and youth.
This book is essential reading for those interested in a rights-based participatory approach, for those who want to appropriately and meaningfully engage children and youth in research and for those wishing to maximise the contribution of children and youth in policy-making.
Deirdre Horgan is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Applied Social Studies and Deputy Director of the BA programme in Early Years and Childhood Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. Her research interests include childhood, child welfare and protection, childrens rights and participation, childrens research methods and child migration. Deirdre has published widely on these topics. She has conducted a number of funded research projects using child participatory methods as well as reporting on government consultations with children on a range of policy issues. She is currently co-investigator on IMMERSE a Horizon 2020 project on socio-educational integration of children with migrant backgrounds.
Danielle Kennan is a Lecturer in Applied Social Science in the School of Political Science and Sociology at National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway) and a Senior Researcher with the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at NUI Galway. Danielle has an inter-disciplinary expertise in human rights law and child and youth studies. She has a particular research interest in child and youth participation rights and participatory research methodologies. She has published widely in this field.
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Names: Horgan, Deirdre, editor. | Kennan, Danielle, editor.
Title: Child and youth participation in policy, practice and research /
[edited by] Deirdre Horgan and Danielle Kennan.
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Subjects: LCSH: Children and politicsIreland. | ChildrenPolitical
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Contents
DEIRDRE HORGAN AND DANIELLE KENNAN
LAURA LUNDY AND ANNE ODONNELL
DANIELLE KENNAN, PAT DOLAN, ELLA ANDERSON AND KALEM GARRETT
ANNIE CUMMINS, DEIRDRE HORGAN AND SHIRLEY MARTIN
CAROL BARRON
NERILEE CEATHA, AYRTON KELLY AND TARA KILLEEN
NAOMI FEELY, PDRAIC FLEMING AND SIOBHN GREENE
IMELDA COYNE AND ANA MARTINS
AOIFE PRICE AND MICHAEL FEELY
AVRIL DOOLEY, MICHELLE SHEEHAN AND JACQUELINE CONCANNON
CATHERINE ODONNELL
HARRY SHIER
DEIRDRE HORGAN AND SHIRLEY MARTIN
SUSAN McDONNELL
MARIANNE JOYCE, EMMA SHALVEY AND LUCY FITZPATRICK
COLETTE KELLY, NATASHA DANIELS, LORRAINE BURKE, ANDRS KLT, ANNE ODONNELL, OLIVE McGOVERN AND SAOIRSE NIC GABHAINN
DEIRDRE HORGAN AND DANIELLE KENNAN
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Contributors
Deirdre Horgan is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. The focus of her research and teaching includes childhood, child welfare and protection, childrens rights and participation, childrens research methods and child migration. She conducts a range of funded research in child and youth participation.