Listening to young people and promoting places for them to participate in key decisions on
their lives have long been central to CIESPI’s work. The publication takes these concerns
into the area of institutional care for adolescents

The project described in Research and Policy Bulletin 6 involved about 560 children between the ages of six months and thirteen years. In addition to drawing on the silhouettes, the children told stories and participated in exhibitions where their drawings and narratives were displayed. These productions were then discussed in meetings in which the children, school staff and researchers took part. The authors point out that the dialectical space provided by such interactions is guided by an ethical point of view which recognizes cultural and identity pluralities and contributes to the formation of people and creators in solidarity in their relationships to themselves, with others and the world. This point of view also demands that such understandings could and should inform policy debates and decisions about children and youth.