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.

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