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Summary:

"This book compares ways in which children's rights in, to, and through education, formal and informal, are viewed and implemented in a variety of social and political contexts, aiming to shed light on how policies and practices can improve equal access to high quality education in an environment which is respectful of children's rights. Chapters focus on understanding the opportunities for and challenges of addressing children's rights to participation and to inclusion. Authors draw from a variety of disciplines, including critical and cultural studies of childhood, and bring internationally comparative policy perspectives to share nuanced and contrasting examples of ways in which a rights-based approach to education might empower children and youth. The book deepens and complicates research on children's education rights, and will contribute to courses in comparative education, childhood studies, education policy, and children's rights"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Section 1 : Complexities and perspectives in promoting participation and inclusion
• 1. Education rights in a society emerging from conflict: curriculum and student participation as a pathway to the realization of rights / Lesley Emerson and Laura Lundy
• 2. Children's rights and educational exclusion: the impact of zero-tolerance in schools / Martha Baiyee, Celeste Hawkins, and Valerie Polakow
• 3. The protagonism of under-18 youth in the Quebec Student Movement: the right to political participation and education / Natasha Blanchet-Cohen
• 4. What's right in children's rights? The subtext of dependency / Panagiota Karagianni, Soula Mitakidou, and Evangelia Tressou
• Section 2 : Child-rights approaches in the early years
• 5. A Rights-based approach to observing and assessing children in the early childhood classroom / Kylie Smith
• 6. "You're Not Listening to Us": explicating children's school experiences to build opportunity for increased participation within school communities in the United States / Lacey Peters and Lisa Lacy
• 7. Renarrativizing indigenous rights-based provision within "mainstream" early childhood services / Jenny Ritchie and Cheryl Rau
• 8. Restoring indigenous languages and the right to learn in a familiar language: a case of black South African children / Nkidi Phatudi and Mokgadi Moletsane
• Section 3 : Education rights issues in diverse contexts
• 9. Pursuing democracy through education rights: perspectives from South Africa / Bekisizwe Ndimande and Beth Blue Swadener
• 10. Claiming the right to quality education in Nicaragua / Harry Shier, Martha Lidia Padilla, Nohemi Molina Torres, Leonilda Barrera Lopez, Moises Molina Torres, Zorayda Castillo, and Karen Alicia Ortiz Alvarado
• 11. Getting an education: How travellers' knowledge and experience shape their engagement with the system / Colette Murray
• 12. When boys are pushed-pulled out of school: rights to education in the Philippines / Leodinito Y. Canete
• 13. Intersections of education and freedom of religion rights in the UNCRC and in practice / Janette Habashi.

Contributors:

Swadener, Beth Blue , editor

Lundy, Laura , editor

Habashi, Janette , editor

Blanchet-Cohen, Natasha, 1970- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Rethinking childhood; v. 48

Subjects:

Right to education — Cross-cultural studies

Children's rights — Cross-cultural studies

Comparative education

Right to education

Children's rights

Genres:

Cross-cultural studies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

268 pages ; 23 cm.

Call Numbers:

LC213 .C55 2013

ISBNs:

9781433121210 (paperback, alk. paper)
1433121212 (paperback, alk. paper)
9781433121227 (hardcover, alk. paper)
1433121220 (hardcover, alk. paper)
9781453911587 (e-book) [Invalid]
1453911588 (e-book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013024275

OCLC Numbers:

854980321