It focuses on ways in which children are seen by adults and the impactthis has on children's ability to exercise their rights toparticipation. The mainly Australian authors of the 18 chapters workwithin the paradigm of "childhood studies" that has done so much overthe last two decades to challenge conventional academic and professionalviews of children's lives and competence.
The title of the volume might suggest that it will mainly give positiveexamples of ways in which children are seen as competent social actorsby the adults they encounter. However, most of the chapters provideevidence of the way in which children continue to be treated as objectsof adult control and passive recipients of adult instruction, disciplineand services.
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