Recent years have shown increasing recognition that children and young people should have a say in policies and services that affect them.
Particular significance has been attached to their involvement in education.
In Scotland, this took the form of the National Debate on Education and the Having your Say at School initiative. But is children and young people's participation taken seriously?
Dympna Devine shows how far we have to go by stripping participation back to examine the power relationships between adults and children, and how childhood is structured through school. She employs a range of research methods to examine how children in three primary schools in the Republic of Ireland experience schooling, the exercise of power between adults and children, and how children use what they have to influence those power relationships.
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