no / Empowering children and young people is often cited as the goal of participation. However projects that seek to
empower children and young people show little attempt to define what empowerment means. There is an
implied but inadequately explored conceptual link between participation and empowerment. This paper explores
the link between participation and empowerment by discussing a research with 15–17 year young people
involved in two participatory initiatives in Ghana. The paper discusses the various typologies of children's participation
and the concept of power, and concludes that participation does not lead to empowerment. Therefore the
increasing theorisation of children and young people's participation as empowerment is flawed. The paper
argues that children and young people's participation should instead be conceptualised as recognition and
dialogue.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/10986 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Adu-Gyamfi, Jones |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, No full-text in the repository |
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