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Challenges of childrens participation A Case Study of active citizenship in Cadle Primary School

of their parents and teachers and lacking the willingness or capacity to accept the responsibilities that should accompany with the granting of rights`. 24 There is a clear tension between the commonly held assumptions of children on the one hand, as welfare dependants, needy for protection and care of adults, and on the other hand, as young citizens entitled to respect and recognition, and the right to participate in the matters that affect their daily lives25. However, the very fact of how childhood is perceived within society has a profound impact upon whether children`s rights are upheld or not. The commonly held assumption that 22 Children`s Rights and Early Education, p.5. 23 Children`s Rights and early Education, p.5. 24 Children`s Rights and Early Education, p.5 25 Wells Karen, `Narratives of liberation and narratives of innocent suffering: the Rhetorical Uses of Images of Iraqi children in the British press`, Visual Communication,