{"title":"The Best Interests of the Child and the Right to Inclusive Education","authors":"Philip E. Veerman","doi":"10.1163/15718182-30010012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-30010012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The drafters of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (crpd) incorporated the concept of inclusive education into Article 24 of the crpd. Many consider this to be a new children’s right. The inclusive education idea has played since 2006 a role in interpreting crc Article 23 (rights of children with disabilities), Article 28 (right to education) and Article 29 (aims of education). The relationship between these two complementary human rights Conventions (crc and crpd) is described and the question raised by Sandland and discussed here is if there is a “Clash of Conventions”. The disability rights perspective created an ideological battle between advocates of the closure of special education and those who oppose it. The author supports the proposal (More and More Inclusive, 2020) by the Dutch Education Council to the Minister of Education to bring special and regular education closer to each other, but not closing special education.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114205160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","authors":"Philip E. Veerman","doi":"10.1163/15718182-30010014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-30010014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"245 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131200004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Limits of Child Agency?","authors":"Michelle Lokot, H. Shakya, B. Cislaghi","doi":"10.1163/15718182-30010007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-30010007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article explores how communities and development practitioners conceptualise children’s agency. It highlights contradictions within non-government organisations (ngo) and United Nations (UN) narratives on child marriage: children are said to exercise agency when they defy forced marriage, yet they lack knowledge and choice if they themselves decide to marry. This article is based on interviews and focus group discussions with communities in Somalia and Cameroon, and interviews with development practitioners in both countries. The findings highlight four themes: child-led marriages are a newer practice; child-led marriages are often temporary; practitioners believe children are too young to exercise agency; and practitioners question whether children can make decisions. These findings have implications for child marriage interventions, highlighting the need for “agency” to be conceptualised less narrowly. For ngo s, UN agencies and policy-makers, requires reflecting on what it means to accept community choices, irrespective of whether the outcome is positive or negative.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126991326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Right to Physical Integrity for Child Patients Jeopardized in Health and Medical Care?","authors":"Anna Holmqvist","doi":"10.1163/15718182-30010011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-30010011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Sweden was the first country in the world banning corporal punishment in 1979, protecting children’s physical and mental integrity. Forty years later, this fundamental view on children’s rights, respecting the child’s integrity, has not had any effect in Swedish health and medical care when children are patients. In this article, children’s rights when the child is a patient will be discussed in relation to the Swedish Patient Act (pa, 2014:81) and the advocacy role of Swedish patient organisations. It is shown that children’s rights in the Patient Act are constructed based on the child patient as deviant and subordinated to adult patients and parental rights, making not only the child’s voice subject to valuation by adults, but also the child’s integrity. Further, the patient organisations, acting as advocates for different patient groups in the legislative process, stay silent on issues concerning child patients’ basic human rights.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126191028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children’s Right to Participation in Early Childhood Education and Care: An Analysis in Finnish Policy Documents","authors":"Jan-Erik Mansikka, Marina Lundkvist","doi":"10.1163/15718182-30010009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-30010009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Finland has gone through considerable reforms in early childhood education and care in recent years, with a new Act followed by a new National Core Curriculum (2018). The reforms have implied much more emphasis on both education and children’s perspectives. Because of the changes, we are interested in what role the concept of children’s rights, and more particularly children’s right to participation, has had in this recent development. Our analysis of the recent curriculum in Finland shows three different ways of describing children’s right to participate: social, political and learning dimensions on participation. Moreover, we could see that each dimension contained two poles, oscillating between children’s autonomy and interdependence. We believe that finding new ways of describing children’s rights to participate will help professionals working within ecec to overcome the gap between theory and practice.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115979247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who is “The Child”? Best Interests and Individuality of Children in Discretionary Decision-Making","authors":"J. Krutzinna","doi":"10.1163/15718182-30010005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-30010005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000While the substantiation of “best interests” has received much attention, the question of how “the child” is conceptualised to ensure any action taken or decision made is in the particular child’s best interests has been largely neglected. In this paper, I argue that the lack of robust understanding of who “the child” is, means that we continue to make many generalisations and category-based assumptions in determining the child’s best interests. In addressing the challenge of doing right by the individual child, I propose a three-step approach based on a theoretical model of the child that avoids presumptions about child-typical needs and insists on an assessment of the child’s individual characteristics, needs, qualities and circumstances, making it the only conceptualisation fully meeting the child centrism criterion required by children’s rights as determined by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115422576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mariza Dima, A. Xanthaki, Thaleia Deniozou, Colin Luoma
{"title":"The Rights Hero – Serious Games for Human Rights Education and Integration of Migrant and Refugee Children in Europe","authors":"Mariza Dima, A. Xanthaki, Thaleia Deniozou, Colin Luoma","doi":"10.1163/15718182-30010004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-30010004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Following the rise of migrant inflows in Europe since 2015, more than 210,000 unaccompanied children have arrived in Europe. This article argues that serious games can in principle fill the gap of human rights education that these children face and ultimately help them develop, but important issues and challenges need to be considered. The article follows the design and development of “The Rights Hero”, a prototype serious game for migrant children to help them learn and practise their rights, encouraging them to take transformative action that will lead them to integration. The game focuses on the “Rights Hero”, whose gender and race are unidentifiable and who is trying to build up two superpowers, “Resilience” and “Empowerment”, through responding appropriately to various challenges. These challenges are all too familiar to migrant children. Designed by an interdisciplinary team of human rights and game design experts, and in collaboration with the ngo Network for Children’s Rights, work on the prototype raised important discussions regarding the use of games for human rights education, the need for children to know their rights, and their understanding of integration. The article reflects on the extent to which serious games can be developed as a useful informal educational tool for the human rights education of displaced children.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129788304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study of Teacher Candidates’ Views on Children’s Human Rights in Canada","authors":"JP Leighton","doi":"10.1163/15718182-30010006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-30010006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The purpose of the study was to adapt a pre-existing measure (Karaman-Kepenekci, 2006) to assess teacher candidates’ views about children’s human rights in Canada. Karaman-Kepenekci’s survey was originally administered in Turkey with results published in the International Journal of Children’s Rights. To benchmark our results against Karaman-Kepenekci’s findings, we adapted and administered the survey to a sample of 174 teacher candidates in Canada. Participants’ gender, age, ethnicity, experience with children and enrolment in a human rights course were measured. The psychometric properties of the adapted survey and teacher candidates’ views are reported. An exploratory factor analysis with direct oblimin rotation led to complementary but different results compared to Karaman-Kepenekci’s (2006) findings. In particular, two factors were found to underlie survey responses – one involving rights of children and another involving government responsibility. Hierarchical linear regression of factor scores indicated that, among participant characteristics, only gender and ethnicity were predictive of responses.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124353771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Still Passionate About Children’s Rights After Thirty Years","authors":"Philip E. Veerman","doi":"10.1163/15718182-30010013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-30010013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115718554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Civil Society Perspectives on Children’s Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories","authors":"Paul Chaney","doi":"10.1163/15718182-30010003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-30010003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000“This study analyses civil society organisations’ (cso s’) discourse on children’s rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (opt). This is a troubled context, for Israel – the ‘State Party’ to the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc), disputes that its obligations extend to the opt. In consequence, there has been a dearth of official data and scholarly attention to the situation. Discourse analysis of cso s’ reports to the UN’s monitoring mechanism, the Universal Periodic Review (upr), shows children are affected by a raft of violations including: sexual abuse, violence and inadequate access to health and education. The Israeli state’s engagement with the upr, whilst denying responsibility for the opt, raises questions about legitimation and performativity. The pathologies are compounded by state repression of civil society meaning that the upr is a singular means of highlighting children’s rights abuses in the Occupied Territories.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131517243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}