The ‘good-enough society’, the ‘good-enough citizen’ and the ‘good-enough student’: Where is children’s participation agenda moving to in Brazil?

• DOI: 10.1177/0907568211402525
• Publication Date: 2011-08-27T01:36:30Z
• Authors: Lucia Rabello de ...
• Keywords: Commit; Polity

This article discusses how the new paradigm of children’s participation rights and competence has maintained unchallenged subjectivity considered apt to be included as an opinion giver in polity. ‘Developmentalism’ continues feed a theoretical input practical regulation adult–children relationships. The article, based on empirical investigation with Brazilian children, views students school staff, premised ‘good-enough student’, commit hierarchy non-reciprocal adult-child single standpoint from where one envisages educational process leads de-politicization life. Consequently, effective inclusion children society, constituting important political challenge our time, must faced so that can become more real less rhetorical.