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I have created this web space to provide easy access to my published and unpublished work on child participation and other topics.
Below are links to a number of published resources (in date order, most recent first), and below these, a couple of previously unpublished works.
Work in Spanish is now separate, and can be found by clicking the "Español" button above.
If what you are looking for is not here, you
can email me at
harryshier@hotmail.com
Harry Shier
Matagalpa, Nicaragua
Visit the CESESMA website:
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IPA Global Consultations on Children’s Right to Play Report (compiled by Harry Shier on behalf of the International Play Association)
2010. Published by the International Play
Association: Promoting the Child's Right to Play,
www.ipaworld.org.
ISBN 978-0-9549164-59
You can also download both versions from the IPA website (full report requires registration): Click here
Can Nicaragua's child coffee workers help us fan the flames of the Spirit of Adventure Play?
2010. Powerpoint presentation presented at the Spirit of Adventure Play conference, Cardiff, Wales, 5 May 2010 (PDF file, 5MB)
You can also download this presentation from the Play Wales website: Click here
Children's Participation in Educational Projects and Sustainable Design - Comparing the UK and Nicaraguan Contexts: An Interview with Harry Shier (by Andrea Wheeler)
2010. International Journal of Children's Rights, Vol. 18/3, 457-474.
If you don’t have free access to this journal, e-mail me to request a copy of the interview. To visit Andrea Wheeler's "Sustainability and Schools" project website: Click here
Children and young people as protagonists in creating sustainable schools: Lessons from Nicaragua
2010. Powerpoint presentation presented at the UK Energy Research Council seminar “School Design Futures”, Oxford, England, 27 April 2010 (PDF file, 5MB)
The UKERC website also contains a link to a video presentation of this lecture: Click here
Children as Public Actors: Navigating the Tensions
2010. Children & Society (UK) 24: 24-37
If you don’t have free access to this journal, e-mail me for a copy of the article. (Note: This was previously listed as dated 2009, but is now published in C&S vol 24, so the correct publication date is now January 2010)
Vägar till delaktighet: Öppningar, möjligheter och skyldigheterhildren
2010. Swedish translation of "Pathways to Participation: Openings, Opportunities and Obligations", 2001 (see below) published by Handikappförbunden, the Swedish Disability Federation.
Early Childhood Play in Nicaragua (by María Shier with Harry Shier)
2009. Playrights (International Play Association) 2/09, 14-15
Download version contains both English text as published in Playrights and original Spanish text.
Pathways to Participation Revisited: Learning from Nicaragua's Child Coffee Workers
2009. Chapter in "A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation: Perspectives from Theory and Practice", B Percy-Smith and N Thomas (eds), published by Routledge, UK. ISBN 978-0-415-46852-7.
Purchase of this book is highly recommended. Alternatively, you can e-mail me for a copy of this chapter.
Children and Young People as Active Citizens: A practitioner's guide to navigating the tensions
2009. In "Understanding Partnership Working", V. Harris and others (eds), University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. This is an abridged, practitioner-orientated version of "Children as Public Actors:Navigating the Tensions" (Shier 2010, see above), and also includes a reflection exercise.
Constructing Active Citizenship: Interacting participation spaces in the participation and organisation of children and young people as active citizens in Nicaragua
2008. Paper presented at the seminar “Active Citizenship in Central America: Twenty First Century Challenges”, at Dublin City University, 7-8 November 2008.
The Right to Play in Nicaragua
2008. Playwords (UK) 37, 12-15
The Playwords website also has quarterly updates on the Nicaraguan Right to Play campaign.
Play and Risk in Nicaragua
2008. Playrights (International Play Association) 2/08, 9-10
Pearl Lagoon, a Playworker's dream
2008. Ip-Dip magazine (UK) 3, 24-25. Short article based on a presentation given at the Play Education meeting in Wolverhampton, England, October 2007.
This is the original unabridged article, slightly longer than the published version.
Pathways to Participation Revisited
2006. Middle Schooling Review (New Zealand) 2, 14-19
Pathways to Participation: Openings, Opportunities and Obligations
2001. Children & Society 15:107-117
This article was selected by a committee of past and present editors for Childen & Society's 25th Anniversary Special Issue, as they considered it to be "among the most significant and influential" in the journal's 25-year history. As a result it can now be downloaded free from the Children & Society web-site.
A Child’s Journey into the Future, or Sailing the Seven Cs
2001. Paper based on keynote address at the Network of Community Activities’ biannual conference, Manly NSW, Australia, May 2001.
The genesis of "Pathways to Participation"
1998-99. Four short magazine articles tracing the development of the Article 31 Children's Consultancy Scheme and the genesis of the "Pathways to Participation" model.
Adventure Playgrounds: an introduction
1984. Facsimile of a booklet published by the National Playing Fields Association in the UK. My first published work, this has been out of print for over twenty years and has been hard to find.
You can also download this booklet from the London Play website [Click here] or the Play Scotland website [Click here]
