Harry Shier
@harryshier.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, facilitator, commentator on child rights, participation and play. Associate of CESESMA in Nicaragua. Based in Ireland. Retired/freelance
Full texts of 3 book chapters from 2022/23 now at www.harryshier.net : “Children Claiming the Right to Live Without Violence in Nicaragua”, “Learning from experience: 10 years of action research by children in Nicaragua”, and “Locating the (adult) researcher in participatory research with children”.
Harry Shier: Documents and resources
Harry Shier: Writing on child participation, children's rights and children's play.
harryshier.net
And here’s my chapter: “POWER AND EMPOWERMENT in participatory research with children and young people” from "The Ethics and Ethical Implications of Involving Children and Young People as Partners in Research…”: More info at www.harryshier.net.
Important new book just out: "The Ethics and Ethical Implications of Involving Children and Young People as Partners in Research Related to their Care, Welfare, and Wellbeing", edited by Virginia Minogue, Edel Tierney and Caroline Roe, published by Ethics Press. ethicspress.com/products/the...
The Ethical Implications of Involving Children and Young People in Research Related to their Care, Welfare, and Wellbeing
Title: The Ethical Implications of Involving Children and Young People in Research Related to their Care, Welfare, and Wellbeing Subject Classification: Research, Childhood Studies, Medicine and Medi...
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We just passed the 25th anniversary of the first publication of Pathways to Participation in April 2001, and people are still finding new ways to use it (The C&S website says 2006, but that’s when it went online. Before then it was an old-school print journal) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Pathways to participation: openings, opportunities and obligations
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has raised the profile of children's participation in the United Kingdom. Hart's ‘ladder of participation’ has been the most influential model...
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Always great to see “Pathways to Participation” reaching into new territories. Here it has been used to explore how children are listened to, and their views given due weight, when they find themselves in a Swedish ambulance on the way to hospital. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Finalmente, unas palabras muy apropiadas del libertador de Chile, Bernardo O’Higgins —quien, como su nombre indica, tenía ascendencia irlandesa — que vi en la Embajada de Irlanda en Santiago.
Muchísimas gracias a la Dra. Mahia Saracostti de la Universidad de Chile por organizar todo esto y por ser una anfitriona tan maravillosa.
De vuelta en Santiago, me encuentro con un héroe de mis años de estudiante, Salvador Allende.
Presentación sobre prácticas de incidencia política por NNA a estudiantes del Colegio Coya de Machalí, en la Carretera del Cobre de Chile (www.colegiocoya.cl).
Observación de estudiantes iniciando su participación en el programa de NNA investigadores en la Escuela Canadá de Requínoa (sites.google.com/daemrequinoa...).
Una noche en Santiago con una leyenda chilena de los derechos participativos, Patricio Cuevas Parra.
Reunión con el equipo de la Defensoría de la Niñez (www.defensorianinez.cl) para conocer su nuevo marco de participación contextualizada.
Encuentro con docentes y niñas en la escuela Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna de Santiago, en colaboración con la Universidad de Chile en el proyecto de NNA investigadores. (Por cierto, se solicitó permiso a todos los NNA que aparecen en estas fotos, y sus profesores, para tomarlas y compartirlas).
Simposio con grupos de la sociedad civil que trabajan con NNA en Chile, coordinado por la red Pacto Niñez (xn--pactoniez-r6a.cl/pacto-ninez-...), organizado por la Fundación Colunga (www.fundacioncolunga.org).
De vuelta de mi viaje a Chile puedo ponerme al día. En Santiago, la primera parada fue con estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile para hablar sobre su proyecto innovador de investigación participativa con NNA, facilitada por mi anfitriona, Dra Mahia Saracostti (www.instagram.com/p/DWEq6ShFdwK/).
Finally, some apt words from the liberator of Chile, Bernardo O’Higgins – who, as his name suggests, had Irish ancestry – spotted in the Irish Embassy in Santiago.
Warmest thanks to Dr Mahia Saracostti of the University of Chile for organising all of this and being such an amazing host.
Back in Santiago, here I am meeting a hero from my student days, Salvador Allende.
This poster in Coya College caught my eye. It says: “Coya College says STOP cyber-bullying. No more mockery, humiliation or threats.”
Presentation on participation for political influence to students at Colegio Coya secondary school in Machalí on Chile’s Copper Highway (www.colegiocoya.cl). (Btw, all children and young people in these photos, and their teachers, were asked for their permission to take and share these photos).
Observing students starting on the child researchers programme at Escuela Canadá (Canada School) in Requínoa (sites.google.com/daemrequinoa...).
A night on the town in Santiago with Chilean participation rights legend Patricio Cuevas Parra (www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/... www.wvi.org/publications...
Meeting with the team at the Defensoría de la Niñez (Children’s Rights Commissioner) (www.defensorianinez.cl) to learn about their new contextualised participation framework.
Meeting teachers and children at Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna school in Santiago – partnering University of Chile in the child researchers project.
Symposium with civil society groups working with children and young people in Chile, coordinated by the Pacto Niñez network (xn--pactoniez-r6a.cl/pacto-ninez-...) hosted at the Colunga Foundation (www.fundacioncolunga.org). Topic was cyp's participation for political influence.
I liked this sign spotted in a Santiago restaurant. It says, “We don’t have Wifi. Talk among yourselves”.
Then to Santiago, Chile. First stop there was a meeting with Social Work students at the University of Chile to discuss their innovative project promoting participatory research with children, facilitated by my wonderful host Dr Mahia Saracostti (www.instagram.com/p/DWEq6ShFdwK/).
