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Child Rights Knowledge and Children’s Education Rights

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Children’s Rights from International Educational Perspectives

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Abstract

Education related rights are more complex than they appear on the surface. As such, the pursuit of their realisation highlights a number of wicked problems that may offer more questions than answers. The wicked problems in children’s rights and education critically considered in this chapter are positioned in terms of: (1) the varied interpretations and translations of the Convention in educational practice, (2) where rights knowledge and rights competencies sit in discussions about the ‘aims of education’, and (3) the (in)divisibility of rights articles in pursuit of furthering rights knowledge and rights competence. These themes are considered to reflect the cross-cutting “bigger picture” implications of the volume for future research and practice, in addition to those emphasised in each individual contribution.

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    The concept Didaktik is based on the European tradition (mostly non anglo-saxian) and framework of theory and praxis of teaching and learning

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    Jenna Gillett-Swan

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    Nina Thelander

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Gillett-Swan, J., Thelander, N. (2021). Child Rights Knowledge and Children’s Education Rights. In: Gillett-Swan, J., Thelander, N. (eds) Children’s Rights from International Educational Perspectives. Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80861-7_18

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