Promoting Children's Rights in European Schools explores how facilitators, teachers and educators can adopt and use a dialogic methodology to solicit children's active participation in classroom communication. The book draws on a research project, funded by the European Commission (Erasmus +, Key-action 3, innovative education), coordinated by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, with the partnership of the University of Suffolk, UK, and the University of Jena, Germany.

The author team bring together the analysis of activities in 48 classes involving at least 1000 children across England, Germany and Italy. These activities have been analysed in relation to the sociocultural context of the involved schools and children, a facilitative methodology and the use of visual materials in the classroom, and engaging children in active participation and the production of their own narratives. Each chapter looks at reflection on practice, outcomes, and reaction to facilitation of both teachers and children, drawing out the complex comparative lessons within and between classrooms across the three countries.

Claudio Baraldi is Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. He is past-president of the Sociology of Childhood Research Committee of the International Sociological Association.

Erica Joslyn is Dean of the School of Psychology and Education at the University of Suffolk, UK, and Convener of the Race, Ethnicity and Education SIG.

Luisa Conti is Lecturer on Intercultural Communication and Pedagogy at the University of Jena, Germany.

Federico Farini is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Northampton, UK.

Vittorio Iervese is Associate Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Chiara Ballestri is a Researcher at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Angela Scollan is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Education at Middlesex University, UK.