Participation, city and education: councils of infancy and adolescence

Abstract

This article re ects on participation in education that is driven and promoted by the city. It explores the relationship established between city and education from the perspective of citizens’ involvement in the decision-making processes as a key challenge for the democratization of society, for individual and collective development and for improved welfare. Its attention focuses particularly on the experience of the Councils of childhood and adolescence as organs and spaces where cities can be reconsidered through the eyes and the educational participation of children and adolescents and who, as citizens with rights and opportunities, must also have their own part to play in the analysis, discussion and the construction of the present and the future of the cities where they live and coexist.