Challenges of childrens participation A Case Study of active citizenship in Cadle Primary School
the world, their values and priorities and the ways in which they feel themselves
marginalized`37. The concept of childhood is now being understood amongst the scholarly
work as a socially and culturally constructed phenomenon which is not a `natural or universal
feature of human groups`38. According to the new sociological knowledge, children are
regarded as people to be studied in their own right and not just as `receptacles of adult
32 Laura Prudy, `Why Children Shouldn`t Have Equal Rights`, The International
Journal of Children's Rights, Vol 2 (1994) 223-241, p.227.
33 Purdy, 1992, p.113.
34 Purdy, 1992, p.87-88.
35 Purdy, 1992, p.113.
36 Priscilla Alderson, Young Children`s Rights; Exploring Beliefs, Principles and Practice.
(London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000), p.131; Stephen Law, The War for Children`s
Minds. (London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 36-37; Erica Burman, Developments: Child, Image,
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