Childhood

Ideas for Action – in communities

• Participate in creating a library of resources: videos, books, articles, contacts, speakers, knowledge on degrowth for under-18s

• When organizing events: always invite under-18s, always organize day-care/babysitting, think of other forms of presentation

Ideas for Action – in the next Degrowth conference

• Integrate under-18s in the Conference, Examples: Pictographs, Accessibility

• Call for Papers and Workshops for under-18s

• Create new formats, maybe speakers present twice: 1. academic, 2. in an integrated, including way addressing young people (easy language)

• Include topics children are interested in.

Research questions:

• We don't know the basic needs of children. How can we create need-oriented spaces for children that allow their participation.

• Question the “Childhood concept”: children are legally and socially discriminated by age, young people do have special needs... How can we avoid power abuse? What protection / reaction to their needs do children need?

• What could be better discriminators for adulthood than “age”?

Here you can find the results of the GAP at the Degrowth Conference 2010 in Barcelona that are particularly relevant for this working group. More