The United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child resulted in even greater global awareness of the significance of children's rights and perspectives. The contributors to this book explore the extent to which children's interests are finding expression in different societies in Western Europe.

FERRAN CASAS Senior Professor of Social Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Girona, Spain DYMPNA DEVINE Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University College Dublin, Ireland EVA GULLØV is Senior Lecturer, Department of Educational Anthropology, Danish University of Education, Copenhagen, Denmark HEINZ HENGST Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences, is retired from Hochschule Bremen, Department of Sozialwesen, Germany MICHAELSEBASTIAN HONIG Full Professor of Educational Science, University of Trier, Germany ANNE TRINE KJØRHOLT Director and Associate Professor, Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Trondheim, Norway RANDI DYBLIE NILSEN Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway JENS QVORTRUP Magister and PhD in sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark SPYROS SPYROU Director, Center for the Study of Childhood and Adolescence and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Cyprus College, Cyprus