Honouring Youth Voices through Partnership and Participation

Partnership between children and adults is a crucial component that provides children with the ability to access their rights under the UNCRC (1989). One aspect of this partnership is honouring the voices of young people by listening to them, providing them with safe spaces, to have rights-based discussions, and presenting children with opportunities to be able to voice themselves, and participate in society. Inspired by Landon Pearson’s legacy and following in the footsteps of her Shaking the Movers workshops initiative this research aims to honour the voices of the youth by conducting a Foucauldian discourse analysis on 40 Shaking the Movers reports to dissect and understand how children’s rights are impacted by adult influence, the importance of this partnership and how young people are experiencing their rights