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Time: 12 hours Level: Advanced
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Introduction Resource
- The aim of this learning guide is to help you develop a critical understanding of the values, skills and methods associated with children’s participation. You will be encouraged to reflect upon and creatively...
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Activity 1 Resource
- Read Chapter 5: ‘Children’s participation’ from Foley and Leverett (2008) Connecting with children: developing working relationships which is attached below. This extract is taken from a teaching text...
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Activity 2 Resource
- In the extract you have read in Activity 1, Leverett identifies a set of shared values developed as part of the ‘Hear by Right’ standards (Badham and Wade, 2005) for the active involvement of children...
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Activity 3 Resource
- We have identified the importance of a value base that promotes participation and we will now consider some of the skills that are needed to make it happen. For this activity listen to the audio accounts...
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Activity 4 Resource
- We have considered the values and skills needed to undertake participation work. We will now consider some of the methods that can be used to facilitate children’s participation. One typical example sometimes...
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Activity 5 Resource
- This activity is an opportunity to reflect on how you might adapt and use the ideas introduced in Activity 4. Imagine you are running a summer holiday club for children aged 4–11 years. The club includes...
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Activity 6 Resource
- Having adapted the diamond ranking exercise to the case example in Activity 5 you now have an opportunity to think about how you might use or adapt the same exercise in other contexts with children. This...
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| | References and Acknowledgements
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