Reconnecting and extending the research agenda on children’s participation: Mutual incentives and the participation chain

Children, Young People and Social Inclusion: Participation for What?

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 75-101

  Prout, Alan ^a   Simmons, Richard ^b   Birchall, Johnston ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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