Towards a Theoretical Framework for Children’s Rights Education?

Author(s):

Didier Reynaert(presenting / submitting)

Conference:

ECER 2012

Network:

25. Research on Children's Rights in Education

Format:

Paper

Session Information

25 SES 09, Children’s Rights: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Parallel Paper Session

Time:

2012-09-20

11:00-12:30

Room:

FFL - Aula 13

Chair:

Carol Robinson

Contribution

Despite the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the interest in developing a theoretical grounding for children’s rights education seems to be rather limited. In this presentation, we argue for a better understanding of children’s rights education as a distinctive practice in the educational field. Two different conceptions of children’s rights education are identified: children’s rights education as an implementation strategy for the Convention on the Rights of the Child and children’s rights education as social action. Both conceptualisations will be explored.

Method

literature review; discourse analysis

Expected Outcomes

The author argue for a conceptualization of children’s rights education that should contribute to questioning our way of managing children in society. Current frameworks on children’s rights education insufficiently succeeds to engage with the underlying concepts and norms that colour our thinking on childhood and children’s rights. Exactly this characterizes children’s rights education, in that it engages educators to call on children’s rights as a lever to redistribute social goods aimed at greater social equality.

References

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Author Information

Didier Reynaert (presenting / submitting)

University College Ghent

Department of Social Work

Gent

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