CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Soweto Uprising, Voting Age, Kaski District
15 Jan 2016
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Schools and colleges as a focus for political mobilization. What engages you about blog, could provide additional info (could provide another point of view) Children are conceived as belonging to the domestic sphere (and to schools), and thus not political (perception that politics and kids don"t mix) Formal political institutions that exclude children (elections, parliaments, parties etc. Crc (12. 1) specifies for children"s right to be heard, but politics implies that what they say ought to influence the world they live in. Children may be excluded from formal politics, but they have consistently shown an ability to be political more actively engaged than parents. In april, 2013, students at bal mandir school in kaski, nepal, protested physical abuse to education ministry; principal and teachers were fired kids engaged in protest, made a profound social change, power that young ppl can make change. Children have played the role of vanguard in numerous political movements; china, south africa and palestine.
