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Governing rationalities in children’s human rights education
Örebro University.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5157-3322
Örebro University.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3812-0652
2020 (English)In: International Journal of Educational Research, ISSN 0883-0355, E-ISSN 1873-538X, Vol. 100, p. 101546-101546, article id 101546Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This research synthesis examines earlier studies within the field of children's human rights in education, with the specific aim of clarifying which rationalities of teaching and learning children's human rights are activated as significant for teachers’ thinking and work. Theoretically framed by a Foucauldian governmentality approach, the qualitative analysis identifies five different rationalities in the teaching and learning of children's human rights in previous research. The paper discusses how the identified rationalities support or contradict each other in a complex way and their connection to differing conceptions of rights for children. Further, the possible consequences for teachers, teacher educators and policymakers are considered.

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2020. Vol. 100, p. 101546-101546, article id 101546
Keywords [en]
Children's rights, Human rights, Education, Teacher, Human Rights Education
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Pedagogical Work
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Educational Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-99469DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101546OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-99469DiVA, id: diva2:1854468
Available from: 2024-04-25 Created: 2024-04-25 Last updated: 2024-05-15Bibliographically approved
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2020 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Teaching children about human rights is an important step towards strengthening human rights internationally and schools are considered primary sites for children to develop human rights understandings, attitudes and behaviours. This dissertation explores the teachers’ role in educating children about their human rights. Focusing on the everyday school life of young children, a holistic approach to rights-learning is applied that includes not only learning about human rights but also developing rights-conscious values, attitudes and behaviours. Also included in the concept rights-learning is the formation of a self-conception as a rights-holder. Against this background the aim of this dissertation is to clarify the impact of teachers’ actions on the construction of young children’s rights-learning, and their self-conceptions as rights-holders.

Theoretically, the dissertation combines: (i) rights theorisation; (ii) theorisation of differing discourses of children and childhood; and (iii) Foucauldian governmentality. From these, analytical concepts of rights-learning situations, teachers’ rights-teaching mentalities and privileged rightssubject positions are constructed. The data used in the study derives from classroom observations and interviews with teachers, as well as drawing on previous research.

The findings highlight that in everyday school practice the teachers’ rights-teaching mentalities will privilege different rights-subject positions for the children and thereby construct children’s rights-learning in different ways. With a holistic approach to rights-learning, as something that occurs in various interactions and situations in everyday school life, the findings presented in this dissertation can provide new perspectives and enrich discussions on teaching and learning children’s human rights.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Örebro: Örebro University, 2020. p. 177
Series
Örebro Studies in Education, ISSN 1404-9570 ; 61
Keywords
Children's rights, Human rights, Education, Teacher, Human Rights Education
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Educational Sciences
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urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-99470 (URN)978-91-7529-323-3 (ISBN)
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