25. Research on Children's Rights in Education

Wicked Problems in Chidrens' Rights in Education - Video Summary

Network Objectives

The general objective for this network is to be an arena for continuous, critical and focused discussion and elaboration on research issues with a bearing on children’s human rights in educational contexts. Drawing on a broad and interdisciplinary field of research, the network is concerned with ethical, methodological, legal and pedagogical issues that emerge at the intersection of children’s rights and educational contexts. We encourage theoretical and conceptual development in research into children’s rights in education, as well as empirical research. The research field relevant for the network contains several possible themes with a common agenda to explore and identify education as a significant and challenging context for children’s rights.  

Examples of research areas of relevance to the network:

  • The child as a growing holder of human rights and children as citizens.
  • Children’s rights and children’s values.
  • Educational practices and politics as contexts for implementing and interpreting children’s rights.
  • Children’s rights in relation to parents, teachers and other adults.
  • Methodological development - innovative methods for including and strengthening the presence of children’s perspective in research.
  • Research ethics in accord with a children’s rights perspective.
  • International, intercultural and intersectional perspectives on children’s rights to, in and through education.
  • The Convention on the Rights of the Child and its historical and present meaning as a political, legal and ideological document.

Criteria for selection of submitted proposals

The Network welcomes both empirical and theoretical proposals, from all regions of the world. If the proposal is empirically based, it should report on actual findings, i.e., some findings must be in place before giving the presentation. For work to be included in the network sessions, the proposal must:

1. Make the significance of children’s rights clear and explicit.
2. Provide a clear theoretical/methodological framework.
3. Address an issue that intersects children’s rights and education

Interview with Link Convenor 2019

NW25 on the EERA Blog

Recent Posts on the EERA Blog:

"Child Participation in Education - A Wicked Problem that is not always impossible to address",  Dr Cuevas-Parra

"Challenges and Future Directions for Children’s Rights in Education", Prof Zoé Moody, Dr Ally Dunhill, A/Prof Jenna Gillett-Swan

 

NW 25 runs a mailing list and invites researchers to join. To join the mailing list, send a blank message to nw25-subscribe(at)lists.eera-ecer.de

Interview with Link Convenor 2019

Related Blogs on the EERA Blog

Children’s Rights and Crises: A Child-centred Perspective
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Alex Bidmead

Research shows that post-crisis interventions for children are often ineffective, or suffer from a high drop-off rate. Could a switch from adult-centric to more child-centric crisis response mitigate damaging impacts on children?

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Resisting the marginalisation of children’s right to play
22 November 2023, 8:55 am
Dr Jo Albin Clark and Dr Nathan Archer

Play has an essential role in children's educational lives and matters to their childhood. Play and educational justice are related concepts, and there are both implications and risks in marginalising children's right to play.

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Challenges and Future Directions for Children’s Rights in Education
28 October 2020, 9:00 am
Prof Zoé Moody, Dr Ally Dunhill, A/Prof Jenna Gillett-Swan

The Research on Children’s Rights in Education Network (Network 25) recently held our annual event, as part of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) #ReconnectingECER programme.
This was an exceptional event in several respects. Due to COVID and the cancellation of our annual ‘face to face’ European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), we transformed our EERA Network Development funded project into a virtual open event.

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The Rights of Children in Education
28 October 2020, 9:00 am
Dr Cuevas-Parra

Some weeks ago, I was invited to deliver a speech at the ‘Wicked Problems in Children’s Rights in Education’ conference organised by the European Educational Research Association. Whilst preparing my talking points, I was reflecting on the fact that a ‘wicked problem’ is one that is difficult to resolve. There is no simple solution to a wicked problem and it creates tensions, depending on the lens used to analyse the issue. Within this context, I decided to throw some light on one of the more radical rights outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC): children and young people’s right to participate and its intersection with the right to education.

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