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

6-7; Alderson, p. 131; Howe and Covell, p. 57; Children`s Childhoods Observed and Experienced, pp.36-37; Morrow, pp.149-151). 9 relates children with innocence and vulnerability often `constructs children out of society, mutes their voices, denies their personhood, and limits their potential` 26. Children are not citizens in a constitutional sense, they cannot vote. They are perceived as `presocial` actors `trapped in the state of becoming rather than being`.27 Thereupon, children are not considered of being rational and capable of exercising responsibility until the age of majority, the age of 18. 28 There is an imposition that granting children rights to participate in decision making will overwhelm them with a great responsibility and denies them an opportunity of childhood. 29 It is strongly believed that