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Measuring Child Participation
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A number of people suggested that it would be helfpul to open up a discussion on the tool for measuring child partcipation that I shared at Whistler. I would be very interested in any thoughts/ideas…
Started this discussion. Last reply by David Dec. 29, 2009.
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Hello Kim, I hope you had very good time during this time, and in the coming year you can consolidate dreams and projects!
of course we are going to meet in Bogotá in a month!, we are working on it with Alejandro Acosta and Camilo.
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Dear Gerison Lansdown
Thank you very much for bring the issue in the discussion. Save the Children developed instruments to measure the child participation by Save the Children. I will try to share some of those.
"Hole in the Wall" project (video 5:29)
Can Kids Teach Themselves?
Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves (video – 20:59). Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" and Minimally Invasive Education (MIE) experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, childre…
Why should little children be allowed to make their own decisions and to participate.
"By age four or thereabouts, human beings have a fully developed communication system which, for all intents and purposes, makes them mature persons. They are cap…
Hi Gerison, here everything is working alright - sound included. Try not to miss the interview. You can still click on the video or on the URL, and the Youtube version will download.
I have just come from a meeting on child particpation in Brussels and learned that a colleague in Warchild has been using the measurement tool for assessing the paritcipation work they are doing in the field and have found it extremely useful. An en…
thanks for this David - it look really interesting - but unfortunately I cannot get the sound to work!! Not sure what the problem is. Any suggestions as to the reason???
Gerison
I also invite you to watch a video about Sudbury Valley School and its educational approach:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awOAmTaZ4XI (9:13 min.)
~ David
I invite you to take a look at a school that measures high in child participation:
http://www.sudval.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Valley_School
FAQ: http://www.sudval.com/01_abou_09.html
Enjoy,
~ David
Hello Gerison, Thank you for sharing the tool - looks very interesting & helpful. I have shared it with colleagues in Belarus, Georgia & Russia just today - asking them to provide their thoughts. I'll share any feedback received and also if they are…
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- At 10:35am on December 8, 2009,
Kimberly Svevo-Cianci said…
- Ah! Finally found the FORUMS section - and your Child Participation discussion - very interesting! Thanks!
- At 10:45am on November 24, 2009,
Vital Didonet said…
- Hello Gerison. We made a very interesting researche (earing children aged 4 to 6 years old) about their feelings, thoughts, ideas, experiences on different topics, as: family, friendship, violence against children, food/nutrition, housing/home, etc. We are writting the National Plan for Earlychildhood Development in Brazil (a plan for 12 years long, covering all child's rights). The results of that "earing children" are, now, in the Plan. Children are participant...
- At 4:22pm on November 11, 2009,
Michele Cook said… - Reposting this as I am still learning my way around and it went on my page instead of your....thanks Gersion! - Amazing to have you there as always - We will just have to make that time to talk!
- At 12:07pm on November 5, 2009,
Stuart N. Hart said… - Dear G: I'm talking to Jon. We'll set up a Go to Meeting call for the near future. Stuart
- At 4:30pm on November 3, 2009,
martha nelems said… - Thanks Gerison for thinking of me! I am at m_nelems@yahoo.ca
Was at CIDA presenting today on our Iraqi project and there was a question about measuring participation so thought of you! Would love to get the article. Hope your trip home went well. martha
- At 6:53pm on October 31, 2009,
Elaina Mack said… - Hi Gerison: Once you have accepted me as a friend, I can send you the discussion notes from your presentation.
Cheers,
Elaina
- At 4:47pm on October 29, 2009,
Sonia Pouyat said… - I really appreciated the opportunity to learn about your Participation tool, Gerison. I will work with it at kidsLINK and keep you posted about how it is going. Look forward to continuing to work together beyond the conference.
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