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Welcome I have created this web space to provide easy access to my work on child participation and other topics. Below are links to my writing in English (in date order, most recent first). To access each document, click on the cover image. Use the buttons above to go to writing in Spanish, online videos and podcasts, conference and seminar slides, or my CV. If what you are looking for is not here, you can email me at hshier01@qub.ac.uk
Harry Shier |
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2020. Youth Workers Association, Victoria, Australia. ISBN: 978-0-646-82394-2 |
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2019. Entry in "Encyclopedia of Teacher Education" edited by Michael A. Peters, published by Springer Nature, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-13-1179-6 If you don't have access to the on-line encyclopedia, you can get an unofficial author's version
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2019. Chapter in "Participatory Methodologies to Elevate Children's Voice and Agency" edited by Ilene Berson, Michael Berson and Colette Gray, published by Information Age Publishing, Charlote NC, pp 295-315. ISBN 978-1-64113-546-7 Purchase of this book is highly recommended. Alternatively you can e-mail me for an unofficial author's version, or download a Word version of the matrix tool at the heart of this chapter here. |
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2019. Children's Research Digest (Children's Research Network, Ireland), 6 (2) [on-line only]. You can also get a PDF version here. This paper was developed from my 2017 CRN conference presentation which you can see as an illustrated Powerpoint here. |
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2019. Children Australia 44, 172-186. |
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2018. International Journal of Children's Rights 26 (4), 761-780. If you don't have access to this journal, you can get an unofficial author's version here. You can see an earlier version as a presentation (with pictures) here. |
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2017. Children's Geographies 15 (1), 36-50. If you don't have access to this journal, you can get an unofficial author's version here. This paper was developed from my presentation at the Scottish Universities Insight Institute seminar on 'Children and young people’s experiences of intersecting identities and inequalities' in Glasgow in March 2014, which you can see as a Powerpoint here. |
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2017. Chapter in "Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective", edited by Pete King and Shelly Newstead, published by Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp 8-24. ISBN 978-1 1386 5607 9 Purchase of this book is highly recommended. Alternatively you can e-mail me for an unofficial author's version. |
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2017. Chapter in "Handbook of Children's Rights", edited by M. Ruck, M. Peterson-Badali and M. Freeman, published by Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp 364-380. ISBN 978-1 8487 2478 5 Purchase of this book is highly recommended. Alternatively you can get an unofficial author's version of this chapter here. |
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2016. Interview included in "Rethinking Children and Inclusive Education" by Sue Pearson, published by Bloomsbury, London, pp 65-69. ISBN 978-1-4725-6836-6 Purchase of this book is highly recommended. Alternatively you can get an unofficial copy of my intervew here. |
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2016. English translation of "Un cambio de ritmo en la participación de las chavalas y los chavalos, al estilo nica" published by Save the Children Nicaragua, Managua, 2014. The original book in Spanish is available on the Spanish Page The original "Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating Children's Participation" on which this book is partly based (Lansdown and O'Kane, 2014), is available from Save the Children here. |
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2016. Thesis submitted to Queen's University Belfast for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This is the complete text of my PhD thesis (including appendices), reformatted to be more like a normal book but otherwise identical to the original. The original can be consulted at the McClay Library at Queens University. |
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2015. Global Studies of Childhood 5 (2), 206-219. If you don't have access to this journal, you can get an unofficial author's version here. This paper was developed from my 2012 ICYRNet conference keynote which you can see as a Powerpoint here. |
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2014. Published by CESESMA in association with Leeds Development Education Centre |
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2014. Children & Society 28(1), 1–14. If you don’t have free access to this journal, you can download an unoffical copy here. The research report in Spanish on which this article is based,"Incidencia de niños, niñas y adolescentes como ciudadanos/as activos/as en Nicaragua" is available on the Spanish Page. |
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2013. Chapter in "Childrens Rights and Education: International Perspectives", Blue-Swadener B, Lundy L, Blanchet-Cohen N and Habashi J (eds), published by Peter Lang, New York, pp 188-202. ISBN 978-1-4331-2121-0 |
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2012. Official background paper for the UN global thematic consultation on 'Addressing Inequalities Post 2015'. |
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2012. Joint publication by CESESMA in Nicaragua and The Centre for Children and Young People's Participation at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. ISBN 978-1-901922-85-1 The original in Spanish is available on the Spanish page. |
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2011. Compilation of campaign updates from Playwords magazine. See below for the 2008 article "The right to play in Nicaragua" that launched the campaign. |
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2010. Published by the International Play Association: Promoting the Child's Right to Play, www.ipaworld.org. ISBN 978-0-9549164-59 |
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2010. Published by the International Play Association: Promoting the Child's Right to Play, www.ipaworld.org. This is a summary of the full report shown above. The summary can also be downloaded from the Childwatch website here. |
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2010. International Journal of Children's Rights, Vol. 18/3, 457-474. If you don’t have access to this journal, you can download an unofficial copy here. |
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2010. Children & Society (UK) 24(1): 24-37 If you don’t have free access to this journal, you can download an unofficial copy here. |
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2010. Chapter in "A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation: Perspectives from Theory and Practice", Percy-Smith B and Thomas N (eds), published by Routledge, UK. ISBN 978-0-415-46852-7. Purchase of this book is highly recommended. Alternatively, you can download an unofficial copy of this chapter here. |
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2010. Swedish translation of "Pathways to Participation: Openings, Opportunities and Obligations", 2001 (see below) published by Handikappförbunden, the Swedish Disability Federation. |
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2009. Playrights (International Play Association) 2/09, 14-15 The download file contains both English text as published in Playrights and original Spanish text. |
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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. |
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2008. Paper presented at the seminar “Active Citizenship in Central America: Twenty-first Century Challenges”, at Dublin City University, 7-8 November 2008 |
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2008. Playwords (UK) 37, 12-15 Playwords also published regular updates on the Nicaraguan children's right to play campaign from 2009 to 2011. See above for a compilation of these. |
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2008. Playrights (International Play Association) 2/08, 9-10 |
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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. |
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2006. Middle Schooling Review (New Zealand) 2, 14-19. |
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2001. Children & Society 15:107-117 If you don’t have free access to this journal, you can download the article from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. |
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2001. Paper based on keynote address at the Network of Community Activities’ biannual conference, Manly NSW, Australia, May 2001. |
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1999. Chapter in “Play in A Changing Society”, M. Guddemi, T. Jambor and A. Skrupskelis (eds), published by the Southern Early Childhood Association, Little Rock, Arkansas USA. lSBN 0 942388 26 7. The download file contains the full text of the published chapter, with additional photographs provided by the autor. |
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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. |
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1995. Facsimile of original book published by Playtrain, Birmingham, England. ISBN 0-9519013-1-1 The original 1995 publication has long been out of print and hard to find. It also includes Roger Hart’s conference paper, "The right to play and children's participation", which is not available elsewhere. |
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1991. Early Child Development and Care. 69: 91-97. |
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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.
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Previously unpublished works |
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![]() Letters from Matagalpa The story of an Irishman in Nicaragua, told through a series of open letters home written between April 2001 and January 2007. |
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![]() The Tao of Development An alternative interpretation of the Tao Te Ching of Lao-Tzu. |
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