Young Children as Citizens explores how young children (birth to 12 years of age) can and
should participate in civic life. It reflects new images of young children as social actors …

[About the Book:] Young children as citizens explores how young children (birth to 12 years
of age) can and should participate in civic life. It reflects new images of young children as …

There is a growing belief that young children should be involved in decisions that affect
them. This belief has its foundations in a new model of the young child, in a new concern …

Recognition of young children as citizens is relatively new in sociology, with translation
emerging into education. Discourses of children and childhood shape ideas of young …

Since the International Year of the Child in 1979, advocacy for children has intensified. The
Convention on the Rights of the Child has propelled this advocacy decisively into the midst …

Understandings of young children as active and capable citizens, while evident in
discourses of early childhood education and research, are not widely reflected in the policy …

This book examines the notion of children having full citizenship. It does so historically,
through intellectual discourse, beliefs, and moral and ideological positions on children. It …

The notion of children's citizenship has seen increased popularity in the last decade as a
way of rethinking the position of children, mainly as members of the community or the nation …

Children have an unsettled relationship with the status of citizenship, being given some
rights, responsibilities and opportunities for participation, and being denied others. Yet if …

Early years policy increasingly uses the concept of 'citizenship'in relation to children in
Australia and worldwide. This concept is used as a taken-for-granted idea; however, there is …