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2024 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesisAlternative title
Teaching about human rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and everyone's equal value in social studies at primary school : Is teaching about neuropsychiatric disabilities included as a part of increasing understanding of each other's differences? (English)
Abstract [en]
A qualitative study has been carried out through interviews with teachers about teaching social studies at primary school. The study includes the school curriculum's central content on everyone's equal value, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and human rights. The survey puts extra focus on neuropsychiatric disabilities.The purpose of the study is to investigate whether teaching about neuropsychiatric disabilities occurs as part of increasing familiarity with each other's differences, thereby reducing the number of violations by students with NPF. In addition, I investigate whether the school has sufficient knowledge of NPF among teachers to include students with NPF and from that create an accessible learning environment that is in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and teaching through human rights in school.According to the Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket) teaching about human rights must be performed about, for, and through human rights. The survey shows that common working methods for teaching about and for human rights are through films, discussions, and reading fiction aloud. I present discussions and deliberative conversations about human rights with the support of Dewey's theories within pragmatism.From the results, it can be deduced that all informants in the study carry out adaptations and provide support for pupils with neuropsychiatric disabilities diagnoses. The result shows, however, that further training of teachers about neuropsychiatric disabilities needs to take place, as it appears that there are teachers who request more knowledge to discuss neuropsychiatric disabilities in their teaching. In my discussion, I am highlighting the importance, as a teacher, of starting from the special education relational perspective, to see and understand each student with neuropsychiatric disabilities beyond their difficulties, to create genuine relationships between teachers and students. Listening to the child's best interests is part of the Convention on the Child's Rights. By creating an open and accessible learning environment, with an approach in line with human rights, implicit teaching through human rights is developed in schools.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2024.
Keywords [en]
equal value, Convention on the Rights of the Child, human rights, neuropsychiatric disabilities, inclusion, value pedagogy, social interaction
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-101784OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-101784DiVA, id: diva2:1901566
Supervisors
Examiners
2024-09-272024-09-272024-09-27Bibliographically approved