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This volume highlights the importance of teaching adults to listen to children and adolescents, illustrating the principles and contexts that define young people’s tangible and intangible rights and ideals. It reflects on the difficulties that impede the implementation of children and adolescents’ right to be listened to, in line with guidelines linked to national and international policies regarding children and adolescents.The book provides examples of how educational research can be used as a resource for the development of educational processes and of educational systems that put listening and participation at the heart of educational culture, as instruments of intervention and a possible component of social transformation.

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Silvana Calaprice is Professor of General and Social Pedagogy at the Department of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Communication of the University of Bari, Italy, where she is the Coordinator of the Degree Course in Education and Training Sciences. She is Vice-President of UNICEF Italy and a member of the Italian Society of Pedagogy. She is President of the Conference of the Coordinators of the Degree Courses for Socio-Pedagogical Educators and Pedagogists (CONCLEP) and coordinator of a research group on educational professions. Her main research interests are adult education, lifelong learning and social and intercultural pedagogy. Her most recent publications include Paradosso dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza… [Paradox of Childhood and Adolescence…] (2016). Antonella Nuzzaci is Associate Professor of Experimental Pedagogy at the Department of Human Sciences at the University of L’Aquila, Italy, where she is President of the Degree Course in Primary Teacher Education. She is the author of over 200 publications, and has been a speaker at more than 150 conferences. Her research deals with problems related to educational experimentation, the use of cultural heritage by teachers and students, teacher training, evaluation and self-assessment processes, and quality and accreditation systems in higher education.

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