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I read Lilja’s and Tzimoula’s chapter with an ear for silences. I asked myself what might be more resonant in a Canadian study of student competent agency. Three comparative questions about law, assimilation and religion came into my mind.
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Do the structures of law and policy-making in Sweden and Canada shape differences in the ways students have been positioned as actors in schools?
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Ryan, P.J. (2019). Commentary on Chapter 3: A Reflection on ‘After the Century of the Child’ by Lilja and Tzimoula. In: Frankel, S., McNamee, S. (eds) Contextualizing Childhoods. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94926-0_4
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