Children, Youth and Environments
Vol 17, No.3 (2007)
ISSN 1546-2250

 

Announcement: Can I play out? Lessons from London Plays Home Zones Project [PDF 60 KB]

Pushing the Boundaries:
Critical International Perspectives on Child and Youth Participation

Special Issue

Guest Editors: Caitlin Cahill and Roger A. Hart


Series Introduction
Caitlin Cahill and Roger A. Hart

Focus on Europe

Guest Editors: Barry Percy-Smith and Alison Clark

Focus on Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa

Guest Editor: Anita Harris

Focus on Southeast Asia, East Asia and the Pacific

Guest Editor: Joachim Theis

Focus on South and Central Asia

Guest Editors: Claire O’Kane and Ravi Karkara

Focus on Japan

Guest Editor: Isami Kinoshita

Focus on Latin America

Guest Editors: Yolanda Corona Caraveo and María Eugenia Linares Pontón

Focus on United States and Canada

Guest Editors: Caitlin Cahill and Roger A. Hart

 

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Focus on the Middle East and North Africa

Guest Editor: Maha Damaj

Arab Countries of the Middle East and North Africa

Empowerment or Frustration? Participatory Programming with Young Palestinians
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (198 KB)]
Jason Hart
Learning by Doing: The Experience of Popular Achievement in Palestine
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (116 KB)]
Suzanne Hammad and Tareq Bakri

Reports from the Field

Preparing Youth for Leadership Roles in Changing Environments: The Jordan Experience
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (160 KB)]
Eve Thompson and Lukman Arsalan
“Our Voice”- A Project by Children and Youth with Additional Needs: A Children’s Participation Case Study from Lebanon
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (244 KB)]
Yara Shamji

Photo Essay

No Wall Can Stop Us: PYALARA in Pictures
[PDF Full Version (738 KB)]
PYALARA

Israel

Report from the Field

The Education System as a Platform for Involving the Public in Planning Processes
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (301 KB)]
Ronit Davidovitch-Marton

 

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Focus on Africa

Guest Editor: Dipak Naker, Gillian Mann and Rakesh Rajani

 

The Gap between Rhetoric and Practice: Critical Perspectives on Children’s Participation- Editors’ Introduction
[PDF Full Version (198 KB)]
Dipak Naker, Gillian Mann and Rakesh Rajani
Praxis in a Refugee Camp? Meanings of Participation and Empowerment for Long-Term Refugee Youth
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (198 KB)]
Elizabeth Cooper
Child Participation in Zimbabwe’s National Action Plan for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children: Progress, Challenges and Possibilities
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (198 KB)]
Carolyn W. Fanelli, Reuben Musarandega and Lorraine Chawanda
From Rhetoric to Practice: Bridging the Gap between What We Believe and What We Do
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (198 KB)]
Dipak Naker
Child and Youth Participation in Protracted Refugee Situations
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (198 KB)]
Julie Guyot
Heroes in Action: Child Advocates in South Africa
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (198 KB)]
Namhla Mniki and Solange Rosa

Reports from the Field

Meeting Youth Where They Live: Participatory Approaches to Research with Marginalized Youth Engaged in Urban Agriculture
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (301 KB)]
Caroline Keenan
Participation by Orphaned Children in Zimbabwe: The Video The Children They Are Left With
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (301 KB)]
Mildred Tambudzai Mushunje

Photo Essay

The Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) ShootBack Project
[HTML Abstract] [PDF Full Version (301 KB)]
George Awuor and James Njuguna

Book Reviews

Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism
by David M. Rosen
Reviewed by Susan Shepler
Author's Response
Children, Young People and Social Inclusion: Participation for What?
by E. Kay M. Tisdall, John M. Davis, Alan Prout, and Malcolm Hill, eds.
Reviewed by Louise Chawla
Editors' Response
Children and War
by James Marten, ed.
Reviewed by David M. Rosen
Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for Engaging Young People
by Kim Sabo-Flores
Reviewed by Rebecca Schlachter

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