A collection of case studies showing different experiences from around the world that involve children in decisions regarding their own education. Concerned with how children can actively participate in decision-making, it brings together cross-cultural experiences and supporting individuals or groups to work collaboratively.

Introduction; Section 1: Making Space For Children's Decision Making: Perspectives On Educational Policy; 1. The Changing Context Of Decision Making In English Primary Education; 2. Participatory School Governance: Children in Decision Making in the Zambian Context; 3. Participatory Schooling In Prefigurative Form: Two Brazilian Experiences; 4. From Participating To Defining And Influencing: Supporting Children's Voice For Peacebuilding; 5. Long Time Coming: Children as Only Occasional Decision Makers in Schools and Teacher Education as Part of the Problem; Section 2: Children's Decision Making: Its Impact On Life In Schools And The Community; 6. Children's Clubs In Nepal Campaigning Against Corporal Punishment In Schools; 7. Every Child: NGO Experiences With Children As Decision Makers In Peru, India and Moldova; 8. School Councils In Liverpool: Campaigning For Fair Trade; 9. Cross-City School Councils In The UK; Section 3: Children As Decision Makers: What Are We Trying To Achieve? The Ethical And Political Dimensions; 10. Assessing the Benefits and Impacts of Participation; 11. Uprooting The Rhizomes Of Discrimination: Affect And Cultural Violence in High School in Mexico; 12. Pedagogy And Cultural Diversity: Children's Participation in Dealing With Difference in India; 13. The Ethics of Children and other Marginalised Groups Doing Their Own Research; Section 4: Facilitating Children's Participation: Methods And Approaches; 14. Children As Researchers: Experiences in a Kent Primary School; 15. Life In The Classroom: A Pupil Perspective; 16. Children as agents of environmental change: researching to learn, learning to research.; 17. Children as Researchers: A Question Of Risk?; 18. Children's Participation: Radio Broadcasting In Ghana; Endpiece: Notions of the 'Cross-Cultural' in Relation to Children and Their Role in Decision Making.