The Importance of Listening to Children and Adolescents

The Importance of Listening to Children and Adolescents Synopsis

This volume highlights the importance of teaching adults to listen to children and adolescents, illustrating the principles and contexts that define young people's tangible and intangible rights and ideals. It reflects on the difficulties that impede the implementation of children and adolescents' right to be listened to, in line with guidelines linked to national and international policies regarding children and adolescents.

The book provides examples of how educational research can be used as a resource for the development of educational processes and of educational systems that put listening and participation at the heart of educational culture, as instruments of intervention and a possible component of social transformation.