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

has given impetus to a significant field of academic study. Since then, there has been increasing sociological interest in children which has provided a new perspective around the idea of children as social actors, and that childhood is not a natural phenomenon but a social 4 construct. It is now recognised that childhood is a culturally constructed phenomenon arising from human interaction.5 However, the new knowledge of children as competent 1 Mark Drankeford and Jonathan Scourfield and Sally Holland, `Welsh Children`s Views on Government and Participation`, Childhood, 16 (2) (2009) 247-264 (p. 249). 2 Invernizzi, A. & Williams, J, Children and Citizenship, (London: Sage Publications, 2008). 3 Howe Brian and Covell Katherine, Empowering Children:Children`s Rights Education as Pathway to Citizenship, (London: University of Toronto Press, 2007), p.20. 4 Michael Freeman, ` The sociology of childhood and children's rights`, The