Session Information
17 SES 12, Knowledge in Education: Circulations, Transformations, Implementations in a Transnational Perspective Part 1
Symposium
Contribution
During the 20th century, the socio-legal status of the child has changed dramatically. The adoption of three transnational treaties specific to the rights of the child - the Geneva Declaration (1924), the UN Declaration (1959) and the UN Convention (1989)-, increasing at each stage the number and different types of rights, is a remarkable illustration of this state of fact. Local and national socio-legal developments were of course an inspiration. However, the rights of the child took on a new dimension within intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations, exchange platforms par excellence. Beyond boarders, these bodies offered creative spaces at the interstices of national jurisdictions and traditions. Facilitating connections, interactions and even friendly relations between policy makers and agents of civil society, they were the source of an ever-growing circulation of knowledge, norms and practices concerning children’s rights. Based on archival data, this contribution seeks to better understand these circulatory mechanisms in an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. The roles of international organisations, actors and networks will thus be scrutinised and the transformation(s) and re-creation(s) of the norm examined. It argues that the successive general agreements reached served the creation of transnational educational ambitions.
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