Civil Rights in Schools: School Students' Views, 1997-1998

The research project was designed to examine young people's own views about how they are treated as pupils, and about their actual and potential contribution to their school, as moral agents in their own right. <br> The aims of this survey include: to increase public understanding about participation rights (participation rights concern young people's own contributions to their communities and their share in making personal decisions); to discover and report school students' views and experiences about practical aspects of their participation rights; to show how theories about children's rights can influence education policy and practice positively and negatively.