Meetings Between Professionals for the Inclusion of Children in Citizen Participation: A Formative Experience
| Autor: | Ferran Crespo i Torres, Héctor Pose, Novella Cámara |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Children and adolescents
children and adolescents citizen action experience inclusion municipality participation Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology Citizen action Kind local politics Administració municipal Municipal government youth work Adolescents Jugendsoziologie Soziologie der Kindheit Teenagers Sociology & anthropology Jugendarbeit Kommunalpolitik Gemeindearbeit Citizen participation Children Social sciences sociology anthropology youth policy Experience child Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Jugendpolitik Sociology of the Youth Sociology of Childhood Participation Jugendlicher parish work Soziologie Anthropologie adolescent Familienpolitik Jugendpolitik Altenpolitik Municipality ddc:300 Participació ciutadana ddc:301 Family Policy Youth Policy Policy on the Elderly Infants Inklusion |
| Zdroj: | Social Inclusion Promoting Social Inclusive Experiences in Uncertain Times RUC. Repositorio da Universidade da Coruña Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Dipòsit Digital de la UB Universidad de Barcelona |
| Popis: | This article is part of the issue “Promoting Social Inclusive Experiences in Uncertain Times” edited by Ana Belén Cano‐Hila (University of Barcelona) [Abstract] Municipalities must take steps towards an “educational action” that welcomes children into environments that estimulate their involvement and participation in issues that mean something to them. Professionals working directly with children in the municipal sphere must strengthen the development of their active and committed citizenship (SDG no. 4), relating to them as citizens capable of transforming their environment. Children’s participation requires adults who recognise them as interlocutors and establish relationships of trust and mutual respect with them. Municipalities need to create opportunities for children to be included in the co‐production of local projects and to take a leading role in public policies. This article aims to offer elements that can nurture professionals’ readiness and “capacity building” to facilitate children’s participation. These elements are formed in the context of a pedagogical practice (the “coffee meetings”) and emerge through a systematisation of experiences (Aguiar, 2013; Barnechea & Morgan, 2010; Jara, 2012, 2018; Mera, 2019). Coordinated by an inter‐university team, the reflective exchange promoted by the meetings between municipal technical professionals and elected representatives generates knowledge, ideas, and changes in participants’ approaches to children’s participation in municipalities’ decision‐making processes; content analysis, development, and evaluation of the meetings by participants provide insight into the value of a learning community established as a tool to innovate child participation, build professional capacity towards this goal, and strengthen the work of local administrations in the field of citizenship. The authors acknowledge funding by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain, the European Regional Development Fund, and the State Research Agency of the Government of Spain, in support of the research project Childhood and Participation: Diagnosis and Proposals for Active and Inclusive Citizenship in the Community, Institutions, and Governance (RTI2018‐098821‐B‐I00; https://www.ub.edu/infanciayparticipacion) |
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