The focus of this book is centered on the participation of children in countries of the South.
In this sense it will review the possibilities of children's participation as well as their
forms of participation in different contexts of daily life. There has been a tendency to
underestimate children's role as active constructors of their surrounding social space as well
as of the internalized interpretations of the way social life operates. Today it is necessary
to recognize that children are agents actively involved in the construction of their own lives
and the life of the societies they live in and in this sense it is important to consider and
re-signify the participation of boys and girls as a fundamental pillar in the process of
building societies in the 21st century. The book contains chapters that re-significate
children's participation in different countries from South America and South Africa in
relation with different topics: well-being methods citizenship poverty education rurality
ethics and human rights.
