Measuring Children’s Experience of Their Right to Participate in School and Community: A Rights-Based Approach

Lesley Emerson; Katrina Lloyd

doi:10.1111/chso.12190

Measuring Children’s Experience of Their Right to Participate in School and Community: A Rights-Based Approach

Lesley Emerson, Katrina Lloyd

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This paper discusses the development of a children’s rights-based measure of participation and the findings from its use in a survey of 10 to 11 year old children (n= 3773). The measure, which was developed in collaboration with a group of children, had a high reliability (Cronbach’s alpha = .89). Findings suggest that children’s positive experience of their participation rights is higher in school than in community, and higher for girls compared to boys. It is argued that involving children in the ‘measurement’ of their own lives has the potential to generate more authentic data on children’s lived experiences.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	120-133
Number of pages	14
Journal	Children and Society
Volume	31
Issue number	2
Early online date	13 Oct 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12190
Publication status	Published - Mar 2017

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Measuring children’s experience of their right to participate in school and community: a rights-based approach
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and National Children’s Burea This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Emerson, L. and Lloyd, K. (2016), Measuring Children's Experience of Their Right to Participate in School and Community: A Rights-Based Approach. Children & Society, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/chso.12190/full. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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Lesley Emerson
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- School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work - Lecturer
- The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice
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