General Activities
Tips and Sips: The convenor team ran a virtual meet-up ahead of the ECER 2026 submission deadline for potential contributors (current, new, past, and possible future) to meet the convenor team with a cuppa and share tips and opportunities before the submission deadline.
ECER 2026: Special Call “Controversial Topics in Children’s Rights and Education” – 2 parts. Attracted significant attention, with submissions also encouraging several newcomers to the network.
CHRE 2026 Project Progressed. This included a CHRE Paper Session at the ECER 2026 conference and the CHRE 2026 summer meeting (Tampere, 15- 17 August).
Right to Education Webinar organised by the Network (May 28th 2026). Featuring several high-level experts on the topic, it attracted 124 registrations from 39 countries. A blog post is in development, and several spin-off activities are planned.
Progression of a collaboration initiated at ECER 2024. Collaboration on transdisciplinary and participatory research from a children’s rights perspective. Led by N25 ECRs, based on discussions held during Network 25 activities in 2024, with a Chapter almost published
Publications
Three papers were published spanning from the Children's Human Rights Education group:
Hall, M., Jónsdóttir, Á. I., Þorsteinsson, E., Gillett-Swan, J., Gollifer, S. E., & Struthers, A. (2025). Young people’s perspectives on education: A vision for rights-based pedagogy. ReConnectEd, 4(1), 11-18.
Isenström, L., Martinez Sainz, G., Zerika, S., Gollifer, S., & Duda, D. (2026). The Aims of Education and Initial Teachers’ Education: A Rights-Based Comparative Study of Five Countries. The International Journal of Children’s Rights. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-20262014
Quennerstedt, A., Gawlicz, K., Duda, D., & Francia, G. (2025). The elusive content of children’s human rights education. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2025.2578739
Publication opportunities are currently explored, following the Realising Children's Rights to Sustainability symposium
Future Plans
Possible Routledge book on children’s participatory rights with babies and toddlers. C4P / longer-term collaboration on how the field’s themes evolve. A group of Early Career Researchers is exploring how linguistic differences across the English, French, German, and Italian translations of the UNCRC shape our understanding of who children’s rights are for. The group is planning an EERA blog post. Repeat “Tips & Sips” virtual meet-up to support ECER 2027 submissions and emerging researchers.
NW25 on the EERA Blog
Recent Posts on the EERA Blog:
"Child Participation in Education - A Wicked Problem that is not always impossible to address", Dr Cuevas-Parra
"Challenges and Future Directions for Children’s Rights in Education", Prof Zoé Moody, Dr Ally Dunhill, A/Prof Jenna Gillett-Swan
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