Session Information
ERG SES F 11, Child development
Parallel paper session
Contribution
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Rights of Child in 1989 (United Nations Children’s Fund, 2007). Children’s right education is important not only for legal reasons but also for its potential in increasing rights-respecting attitudes and behaviors (Covell & Howe, 1999).
One key to provide children’s rights education is schools. In schools, children can learn and live those concepts by formal and hidden curriculum. Meanwhile, it can be difficult to implement children’s rights education when many in public misunderstand the nature of children’s rights. For many parents and teachers “right” connotes inappropriate entitlement that lead to promote chaos in our homes or schools (Covell &Howe, 2009). Children’s rights about education are categorized in three dimensions (United Nations Children’s Fund, 2007): The right of access to education, the right to quality education, the right to respect to in the learning environment.
In Turkey, there has been some projects, “Rights in Education I” and “Rights in Education II”, occurred by European Commission’s financial supports, but there is still very limited research about children’s rights (www.egitimdehaklar.org).
The aim of this research is to investigate children’s awareness about their own rights, and explore how they learned those rights.
Method
Expected Outcomes
References
Covell, K. and Howe, R.B. (1999) ‘The impact of children’s rights education: A Canadian study.’ International Journal of Children’s Rights 7, 171–83. Covell, K. and Howe, R.B. (2009) Children, Families and Violence: Challenges for Children’s Rights. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Rights in Education I & Rights in Education II. retrieved from: www.egitimdehaklar.org, 02.02.2012 United Nations Children’s Fund (2007) Human Right Based Approach for All: A Framework for the Realization of Children’s Right to Education and Rights within Education. New York: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
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