Children’s rights and agency: promoting participative capabilities through self-directed education

IF 1.7 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

On the Horizon Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI:10.1108/oth-04-2024-0021

Tony DeCesare

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to connect emerging conceptions of childhood in the capabilities approach (CA) literature to models of self-directed education in hopes of articulating and defending the educational goal of promoting children's participative capabilities.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper offers a conceptual and theoretical exploration of childhood from a CA perspective and seeks to connect it to self-directed education.

Findings

The author argues that self-directed education, especially democratic schools in the model of the Sudbury Valley School, is well-suited to the task of promoting children's participative capabilities and that people should, therefore, consider this the kind of education to which children have a right.

Originality/value

By applying the CA framework to self-directed education, this paper makes an original contribution in two directions: first, it offers a new set of theoretical tools for self-directed education scholars; second, it offers capabilities theorists interested in promoting children's participative capabilities with a new model of education.

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儿童权利和代理权：通过自主教育提高参与能力

本文旨在将能力方法（Capabilities Approach，CA）文献中新出现的童年概念与自主教育模式联系起来，希望能阐明并捍卫促进儿童参与能力这一教育目标。研究结果作者认为，自主教育，尤其是萨德伯里山谷学校（Sudbury Valley School）模式的民主学校，非常适合促进儿童参与能力的任务，因此，人们应将这种教育视为儿童有权享有的教育。原创性/价值通过将CA框架应用于自主教育，本文在两个方面做出了原创性贡献：首先，它为自主教育学者提供了一套新的理论工具；其次，它为有志于促进儿童参与能力的能力理论家提供了一种新的教育模式。

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On the Horizon EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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