{"title":"Disrupting Notions of 'Choice': Missteps in Ontario’s COVID-19 Back-to-School Plan","authors":"Sydney Chapados","doi":"10.22215/cjcr.v8i1.3147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v8i1.3147","url":null,"abstract":"When schools shut down in Ontario during the COVID-19 Pandemic, many voices chimed in to discuss where children should be. However, children’s voices were largely missing from these discussions by virtue of being excluded by those in charge. Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), children are granted the right to express themselves, have that expression be taken seriously, and to be given information on matters that concern them. By conducting an analysis of the Ontario Government’s Back-to-School Plan and announcements, I argue that the developmental and economic framing of the decision to return to school denied children their expression rights guaranteed under the UN-CRC. The Ontario Government missed a vital opportunity to value children as full human beings with integral experiences. I conclude by arguing that it is imperative that the Government commits to using a rights-respecting approach to all policy and programming with potential to impact children or childhood.","PeriodicalId":278193,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128232191","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":"Le jeu libre sur le chemin de l’école : Un besoin fondamental ou une activité frivole pour l’enfant ?","authors":"Sara Camponovo","doi":"10.22215/cjcr.v8i1.3136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v8i1.3136","url":null,"abstract":"Le chemin de l’école fait partie du quotidien de tout enfant scolarisé-es. Il se révèle être l’un des rares moments non structurés et non strictement surveillés par les adultes où les enfants sont libres et autonomes. Issu d’un projet de recherche portant sur les expériences enfantines sur le chemin de l’école dans trois cantons suisses, cet article étudie plus spécifiquement les activités ludiques qui s’y déroulent. Ce faisant, un paradoxe est mis en évidence. D’une part, les données montrent que le chemin de l’école offre aux enfants un espace-temps de liberté, d’amusement pendant lequel ils et elles peuvent se livrer dans des jeux spontanés et autodirigés. D’autre part, elles dévoilent l’influence – plus ou moins marquée selon les cas – de contraintes parentales sur l’organisation de ces déplacements qui par conséquent réduisent la marge de liberté de l’enfant. Leur droit au jeu est donc mis en question.","PeriodicalId":278193,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117013610","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}
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque, Amy E. Cooper
{"title":"“The Pandemic is Galvanizing Change”: Anti-Racism in Human Rights Education With Youth","authors":"Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque, Amy E. Cooper","doi":"10.22215/cjcr.v8i1.3185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v8i1.3185","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses how the heightened visibility of racial discrimination coupled with the repression of young people’s civil and political rights during the COVID-19 pandemic is surfacing the need for human rights education (HRE) to evolve to address anti-racism more intentionally. With youth’s amplified awareness of racism and their call for change, HRE practitioners reflect on the use of language, the limitations of “celebrating diversity” and the ways spaces are held for youth engagement as a means of building inclusion given the lived injustices across communities. As children’s rights researchers and practitioners, we consider how our focus on age has resulted in the inadvertent neglect of the interdependence of the rights to participation and to non-discrimination. Shifting to a more critical HRE includes embracing intersectionality and reflexivity, actively bringing BIPOC youth to the centre of sharing and informing, and cultivating youth engagement on racial justice to catalyze systemic-level change.","PeriodicalId":278193,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115772612","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}
Yolanda Corona-Caraveo, Carlos Pérez y Zavala, Sergio Navarro-Montalvo
{"title":"Invisible Childhoods: Mexican Children Facing the COVID Pandemic","authors":"Yolanda Corona-Caraveo, Carlos Pérez y Zavala, Sergio Navarro-Montalvo","doi":"10.22215/cjcr.v8i1.3149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v8i1.3149","url":null,"abstract":"This essay provides a brief introduction to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on children and adolescents in Mexico. It argues that children have been left behind and made invisible in the actions taken by governments to counteract the contagion. This article also analyzes what has happened as a result of changes regarding confinement, play, the use of streets and public spaces and educational institutions – from a children´s rights perspective. The results of several studies that have been carried out in our country are mentioned, ending with some recommendations regarding recognition of the important place children hold in our society.","PeriodicalId":278193,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126643724","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":"From the Editor","authors":"V. Caputo","doi":"10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2812","url":null,"abstract":"of during breathing. J. Appl. Physiol. 66(1): 410–420, 1989.—We describe a single-posture method for deriving the proportionality constant ( K ) between rib cage (RC) and abdominal (AB) amplifi- ers of the respiratory inductive plethysmograph (RIP). Qualitative diagnostic calibration (QDC) is based on equations of the isovolume maneuver calibration (ISOCAL) and is carried out during a 5-min period of natural breathing without using mouthpiece or mask. In this situation, K approximates the ratio of standard deviations (SD) of the uncalibrated changes of AB-to-RC volume deflections. Validity of calibration was evaluated by 1 ) analyzing RIP waveforms during an isovol- ume maneuver and 2 ) comparing changes of tidal volume (V T ) amplitude and functional residual capacity (FRC) level mea- sured by spirometry (SP) with RIP values. Comparisons of V T (RIP) to V T (SP) were also obtained in a variety of postures during natural (uninstructed) preferential RC andAB breathing and with voluntary changes of V T amplitude and FRC level. V T (RIP)-to-V T (SP) comparisons were equal to or closer than published reports for single posture, ISOCAL, multiple- and linear-regression procedures. QDC of RIP in supine posture with comparisons to SP in that posture and others showed better accuracy in horizontal than upright postures.","PeriodicalId":278193,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125600398","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":"Changing the Grounds of Play","authors":"Meighan Mantei","doi":"10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2650","url":null,"abstract":"Through a rights based framework that recognizes and advocates for children’s right to play at school, this paper will show how the students, staff and community of Kitchener elementary school created their playground revitalization project to rethink and restructure their school yard in an educational, innovative, sustainable, and culturally responsive way. Throughout the paper I will argue that the development of a natural outdoor space, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, helped the students and their community nurture a sense of place. Further, I will show how in an area filled with poverty and violence, creating an outdoor space, grounded in local knowledge, supported the community in reclaiming a positive identity. Finally, I will discuss that along with establishing a community gathering space, as the walls of the school were expanded into the outdoors, the teachers and students were given the opportunity to use the natural environment as a vehicle for learning.","PeriodicalId":278193,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants","volume":"104 42","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113945136","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 Child’s Right to Early Childhood Education in Emergency Contexts","authors":"Aurelia Di Santo, K. Scott","doi":"10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2639","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an early childhood education model that upholds a child’s right to education in one of the world's most vulnerable and forgotten communities: a refugee camp. iACT, a non-governmental organization, works directly with refugee beneficiaries to establish, adapt, and implement Little Ripples, an early childhood education program—laying the foundation for a lifetime of well-being, learning, health, and peace for children affected by displacement and violence. This paper explores how iACT invests in the capacity of refugee community members to provide an early learning program that exceeds global standards for child-friendly spaces and the nurturing care model by prioritizing children's rights.","PeriodicalId":278193,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128337617","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":"“I am mostly concerned about their education”: Syrian refugee families and the right to education in Lebanon","authors":"Bree Akesson, Dena Badawi, Abdelfettah Elkchirid","doi":"10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2571","url":null,"abstract":"Ongoing since 2011, the conflict in Syria is considered to be one of the largest humanitarian crises in modern history. With a large number of Syrian families fleeing the war to resettle in neighboring Lebanon, Lebanon’s education system has become overwhelmed. In this paper, we will describe how Syrian families and community stakeholders experienced education in Lebanon and highlight barriers to education, suggesting potential interventions to ensure that the right to education is upheld. The findings underscore the multiple challenges that Syrian families face in seeking education for their children. At the same time, the findings point to the importance of education in the lives of Syrian families both in Syria before the war, in their current contexts of displacement in Lebanon, and in their future hopes and dreams for their children.","PeriodicalId":278193,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121113264","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":"On Barriers to Accessing Children’s Voices in School Based Research","authors":"Jacqueline P. Leighton","doi":"10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2560","url":null,"abstract":"In the research conducted since the inception of the CRC, relatively little theoretically-driven psychological work has been devoted to exploring the issue of children’s rights in classrooms and schools (Urinboyev, Wickenberg, & Leo, 2016). The purpose of this paper is to take a step back and hypothesize based on personal experience, as a research psychologist, the reasons for the relative absence of theoretically-driven empirical research. The motivation for this work stems from the following premises: Psychologists are naturally interested in studying children in a variety of domains. The school is one of the two most important domains in a child’s life; the other being the home environment. However, the study of children in school settings is controlled by school administrators and teachers. As Urinboyev et al. (2016, p. 536) state “some studies [have] found that there is a strong resistance among teachers to accept fully children as rights holders in many schools… .” Consequently, there are significant challenges for researchers in accessing children’s voices about matters that pertain to them in school settings.","PeriodicalId":278193,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123487469","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":"Images of Justice","authors":"O. Milani","doi":"10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2805","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>NA</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":278193,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114631365","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}