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eBook details
- Title: Kids Speaking up for Kids: Advocacy by Children, For Children.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 344 KB
Description
In the spring of 2005, after the Public Affairs Committee Special Session "And How Are the Children?" at the ACEI Annual Conference and Exhibition, we sat back and reflected. We were daunted by global inequity, by the plight of our youngest world citizens, and by a lack of opportunity for children to meaningfully participate in altering these tides. We realized that it was imperative to profile the potential of children to effect change. Thus, the project "Kids Speaking Up for Kids: Advocacy by Children, for Children" was born. The project was simple in scope. We sought to collect stories of child advocacy--ways in which children were working on behalf of other children. We also sought to collect and profile children's voices and vision and so we issued a "call for voices of children." Children were asked to respond to the following questions: