Overview
What you'll learn
Holding children’s rights and best interests as the paramount consideration requires an ongoing commitment to understanding what matters to children and how they experience education and care.
Drawing on Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Laura Lundy’s Model of Child Participation, this session explores children’s participation as more than ‘having a say’. Participants will consider how children communicate perspectives, how those perspectives are understood and responded to, and how they can meaningfully influence practice and decision-making.
Through reflection and discussion, educators will examine the role of listening, participation and influence in keeping children’s perspectives visible within the experiences, relationships and decisions that affect them.
The session will support you to:
- consider the role of children’s perspectives in deepening our understanding of what matters to them
- explore children’s participation as more than ‘having a say’
- identify opportunities to strengthen how children’s perspectives influence practice and decision-making