We cannot rely upon the traditional approach of social science which observes children’s live and reports it to policy makes in the hope that they will improve children’s conditions. We need now  more radial social science research with children in which children themselves learn to reflect upon their own conditions, so that they can gradually begin to take greater responsibility in creating communities different from the ones they inherited.

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Title:  Children as the Makers of a New Geography

Author(s): Roger Hart

Publication Date: 1995

Publisher: In  Building Identities: Gender Perspectives on Children and Urban Space