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Recognizing Children As Citizens Chapter Summary

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I found this book to be interesting and informative as the authors maintain in the introduction that education and knowledge truly empower children for it provides them with the opportunities that are needed for themselves and their families. They further mention that education provides a gateway for children to break through the societal norms of oppression, especially in the developing countries. There are a few chapters in this book, I believe, could help to get some more information and sources of how children should receive education and what prevents them from achieving their schooling goal. For example, chapter three, “Recognizing children as citizens,” discovers the recognition of children as citizens with rights as those who are not

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