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Partnership between Children and Adults?The experience of the International Children’s Conference on the EnvironmentInternational Institute for Child Rights and Development, University of Victoria, nbciicrd{at}uvic.ca
Junior Board, 2002 International Children’s Conference on the Environment This article discusses the potential and dilemmas of children’s participation in large-scale international events. It focuses on the experience of the International Children’s Conference on the Environment (ICCE), which brought together 400 children aged 10-12 from 60 countries around the world. ‘Partnerships’ between children, children and adults, and children and institutions during the planning of the event serve as a focal point for the analysis. The article considers how the partnerships behind the scenes were often strained, and though challenging, this may be a necessary characteristic of meaningful child participation. The article also highlights the critical place of learning as an outcome of partnership. This leads to a discussion on how partnerships need to be fostered in the everyday lives of children, in order for child participation in one-off events to be effective.
Key Words: child participation • conferences • environment • middle childhood • partnership
Childhood, Vol. 13, No. 1,
113-126 (2006) This article has been cited by other articles:
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