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1. I support children’s active and meaningful participation in my community first by asking them their opinions about usual things and try to help them to justify their answer from personal point of view. What I want is that they learn to have ones own opinion and to reflect on the justification. Through this practice they learn to build ones opinion and to hear and respect different opinions.
2. I would like to enhance following aspects of my collaborative work with children:
– Every issue has multiple accesses and only in joint collaboration can we have a better understanding of the issue
– no one owns the truth so every participation has to be respected and taken into consideration
– Our world becomes a global village and we have a shared future that´s why we need to have a look over the edge.
3. The main difficulty I faced while trying to involve children in my work is that the structures of the community is traditionally based on adults or in most cases old people and they don´t want to give responsibilities to young people and they don´t have the need to change things which they no longer worked because of changes. They live still in the past and try to revive the “good past”
4. From my own experience children’s participation is vital because they represent the future and if we engage them now they would be more responsible in the future. Children are not or less afflicted. They have more acceptance for diversity, for critic… they are more willing to learn and to try. Last but not least they are very creative and have genuine ideas to solve problems

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