scholarly journals The "subtle violence" Adultized children and educational challenges

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Demozzi
Keyword(s):  
Western Society ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
The Right ◽  
Great Paradox ◽  
Children Rights ◽  
Adult Society

The article focuses on the topic of "adultized" children seen as an expression of a "subtle violence" that Western society plays against new generations. After defining the concept of subtle violence, the article analyses those situations in which childhood risks its disappearance and in which children are treated as "little adults". What are the challenges this trend poses to the pedagogical thinking? And which are the trajectories that, starting from both micro and macro analysis, can be pursued so that adult society can guarantee the protection and respect of children rights, first of all, the right to have a childhood? Conclusions try to answer – albeit not exhaustively – to these questions, outlining some epistemological paths in order to overstep the great paradox of a ‘'dumb childhood" and for the recognition of its right to be respectfully cared.

scholarly journals El derecho del menor extranjero a ser escuchado y su interés superior en los procedimientos de repatriación | The Right of foreign child to be heard and the best interests of the child in the return process

2018 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Elena Arce Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Right ◽  
Return Process ◽  
Children Rights

Resumen: Las dificultades para ser escuchado del menor extranjero en cualquier procedimiento que le afecte ponen de relieve las deficiencias generales existentes en nuestro ordenamiento jurídico para hacer efectivos los derechos de los que son titulares las personas menores de edad, sean extranjeras o no. Se analiza en primer lugar el artículo 12 de la Convención de los Derechos del niño, las condiciones imprescindibles para para hacer efectivo el derecho a ser escuchado y la conexión que existe entre ese derecho y la consideración primordial de su interés superior. A continuación se hace un repaso de la regulación española de los procedimientos de repatriación de menores extranjeros no acompañados a la luz del interés superior del menor y su derecho a ser escuchado. Abstract: The current challenges that migrant children face to have their right to be heard fulfilled and respected, put in evidence the general deficiencies of our legal system ensuring  the effective enjoyment of children rights, irrespective if the children in question are migrant or not. At the outset, article12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its content is analysed, including the essential requirements for an effective implementation and enjoyment of the right to be heard and its linkages with the best interest of the child as the primary consideration. An analysis of the Spanish regulations under the return procedures for unaccompanied foreignchildren is also provided in light of the respect of the best interests of the child and their right to be heard.

Young people’s participation: views from social workers and independent reviewing officers

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-116
Author(s):  
Clive Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Actual Practice ◽  
Education Planning ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
The Right ◽  
Lack Of Commitment ◽  
Children In Care ◽  
Personal Education ◽  
Children Rights

In this chapter social workers’ and independent reviewing officers’ views on the work they carry out with children in care are presented. Pressures on professionals were a recurrent concern. It was also noted that social workers’ understanding of the concept of participation was limited and the examples provided illustrated that children’s and young people’s participation was largely tokenistic. There appeared to be a disconnect/dissonance between professionals’ views of how important participation is and their actual practice with families. Social workers and IROs both stated that children’s participation was very important to them but then went onto explain that generally children played no role in deciding where the review took place, when it took place, who was invited and what was on the agenda. Social workers and IROs also stated that reviews took place without children to meet statutory timescales and that on occasions CIC reviews would take place just after Personal Education Planning meetings leading to very long meetings. Despite legislation giving children rights to have a say in their care and their wishes taken into consideration, there remains a lack of commitment to this from professionals, high caseloads, systemic pressures and a focus on completing paperwork rather than engaging meaningfully with children seems to be the reason for this. This appears to resonate with Forrester’s (2016) idea of ‘zombie social work’, and appears clear evidence of ‘doing things right instead of doing the right thing’ (Munro 2012).

scholarly journals Equal and Different: Feminism as Radical Humanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (22) ◽  
pp. 374-391
Author(s):  
Petra Mitić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Social System ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Western Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
Equal Right ◽  
Do So

In its attempts to defend the right of women to claim their own subjectivity,as well as the equal right to participate in the social system institutions, the mainstream of feminist thinking has been marked crucially by the question of woman and her identity. This question could be said to occupy a central place in feminist texts and discussions which started even before the women’s movement was officially created. But since feminist disagreements about how these issues should be approached appropriately have already resulted in serious misunderstandings and mutually severe accusations, this paper aims at shedding light at the very nature of these polarities. In doing so, the focus has been placed on how the terms equal and different have been theorised. These dissenting voices have certainly proved productive in the context of theory itself, but have done much harm in the domain of social activism which failed to initiate truly substantial changes within western society and culture. The same countereffect is also visible in theory, which has generated a diversity of feminisms, but has definitely failed to offer a comprehensive critique of the perniciously repressive culture. The lack of gender equality has always been an important dimension of this culture, but still just a segment and one particular mechanism of the invisible matrix which has never actually stopped producing binary hierarchies. They are being manifested in different forms today but have retained fundamentally unchanged and unchallenged structures, promoting an ideologically induced perception of reality to appear natural and self-evident. The paper puts forward the claim that a humanistic and anti-capitalist feminism is a framework broad enough to overcome all exclusions and one-sided definitions and to head towards one such comprehensive feminism – bringing us back to the original radicalism of the women’s movement. To do so, it is necessary to reconsider the general confusion within postmodernist discourse, and especially the controversy related to what humanism should stand for today.

scholarly journals An Evaluation of The Implementation of Sharī‘ah Law of Malaysia in Protecting the Rights of a Child

2018 ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Mahamad Naser bin Disa
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Children Rights ◽  
Islamic Courts

Abstract This research is an observation of the implementation of Islamic law (Sharī‘ah) among the Malay Muslim in the Islamic courts (Mahkamah Syariah) of Malaysia. The author emphasizes on the roles of Islamic law that are related to the protection of the right of children especially those who were born out of wedlock among Malaysian Muslims. By employing the qualitative methodology, the author critically analyses some issues of right of children in Islam, comparing them with acts and provisions of laws and their relation to the implementation in Islamic court of Malaysia.  Findings indicate that the right of children born out of wedlock is covered under the Islamic laws of Malaysia. However, the implementation of Islamic laws pertaining to rights of children in Malaysia draws criticisms from many groups that include local and international. Keywords: Sharī‘ah, Children Rights, Islamic courts, Muslim, Malaysia

2008 Ancel Keys Memorial Lecture—Screening for Coronary Artery Disease: Is It Too Soon to Think Clinically?

Circulation ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 118 (suppl_18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lauer
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Artery Disease ◽  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Healthy Person ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Clinical Events ◽  
Artery Disease ◽  
Clinical Thinking ◽  
The Right

Screening is a mainstay of modern preventive medicine. Physicians routinely screen patients for breast or colorectal cancer, as well as hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and abdominal aortic aneurysm. In each of these cases, randomized trials demonstrated that screening saves lives or prevents major morbidity. As coronary artery disease remains the number one cause of death in Western society, there is interest in screening for the disease itself, as opposed to just its risk factors. Some investigators have argued for routine screening of adults with coronary artery calcium testing; proponents have used direct-to-consumer advertising, legislative lobbying, and appeals in the mass media. Although it is true that coronary calcium scores correlate well with clinical events, the evidence base has not yet reached the level of established tests. We may fall into a too-often ignored trap, where strategies based on logic or risk markers turn out to be ineffective or even dangerous. When a seemingly healthy person undergoes a screening test and is found to have disease, that person becomes a patient subject to clinical thinking. If this translates into improved outcome, clinical thinking is appropriate. We must remember, though, that screening is supposed to prevent clinical events. When it merely detects subclinical disease, leading to unnecessary tests or procedures, it instead exposes people to the risks of thinking clinically. We must have the ambition, willingness, and patience to develop the evidence base needed to introduce new screening technologies to the clinic at the right time.

Adolescence

1984 ◽  
Vol 144 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-97
Author(s):  
Ian Berg
Keyword(s):  
Adult Life ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Physical Growth ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Emotional Maturity ◽  
Secondary Sexual Characteristics ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sexual Characteristics ◽  
The Right

Adolescence is a stage in the development of an individual which links childhood and adult life. Nowadays in Western society adolescence lasts from the early teens, about the time that puberty normally begins, until the early twenties. The main feature of this period is the adoption of adult ways of behaving. There are a number of obvious milestones, the end of compulsory education in the mid-teens and the start of work or further education, the possibility of living independently away from the family and of marriage, as well as the right to drive a car and to vote. Adolescence is accompanied by accelerated physical growth, the development of secondary sexual characteristics, increased emotional maturity, the emergence of a new way of thinking and the formation of a particular identity. A glance at Boorer and Murgatroyd's selected bibliography published in 1972 and the list of references in Rutter's Rock Carling Fellowship Monograph: Changing Youth in a Changing Society (1979) shows the enormous number of books and papers which have been devoted to this period of life. For anyone wanting a readable introduction to the subject of Adolescence, the two relevant chapters of Mussen, Conger and Kagen's (1974) Child Development and Personality can be confidently recommended.

scholarly journals Technological competence of a modern educator as a condition of educational tasks efficient solving

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-303
Author(s):  
Tatyana A. Chelnokova
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Technological Competence ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
The Right ◽  
Selection Of

This paper considers a problem of technological competence of educators, which influences effectiveness of their activity. The problem of technological competence is considered in terms of requirements to educational institutions. It highlights the critical requirements to personality development of modern human. The paper touches upon the role of pedagogical engineering as a base for successful selection of educational technology. It describes modern technologies with specification of their applicability to solve educational challenges. The paper summarizes the experience of the author who has worked at school for many years. The paper describes capabilities of the technology for critical thinking development by means of reading and writing. The possibility of this technology for creativity, critical thinking, communication skills and teamwork development is proved. The paper provides a brief presentation of pedagogical technologies based on the ideas of psychotechnics. The author gives information about pedagogical technologies focused on the right hemisphere development. In the conclusion the author gives her own vision of the technological competence of a modern teacher, which is determined not only in quantitative, but also in qualitative characteristics.

scholarly journals Namus’ in the Soviet Caucasus: Growing up and ‘Traditional Modernity’ among Kavkazi (Mountain) Jews

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-150
Author(s):  
Chen Bram
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Communist Ideology ◽  
State Educational ◽  
The Right

This article discusses adolescences and educational processes among the Caucasian (‘Mountain’) Jews during the late Soviet period. Based on a combined anthropo- logical and social- history research I describe and analyze how the world of Caucasian Jews’ children and youth were shaped in relation to several content worlds: the traditional worlds of Caucasian Jews (Juhuro); the Soviet-communist world which was also the main mediator of modernization; and the immediate social and cultural surrounding, shared by several local groups, mostly Muslims. The traditional socialization patterns of Caucasian Jews stresses the importance of the extended family, stressed hierarchy and seniority related to age. Juhuro (Caucasian Jews) socialization highlighted codes of honor and respect connected to the term ‘Namus’ – a behavioral code regarding the right way to behave, inner consciousness, and several prohibitions – especially in gender relations. At the same time, the Soviet state educational system, both formal and informal, stressed modern values and highlighted Soviet communist ideology. Soviet educational system introduced a de-facto new status of adolescence- while traditionally there was much less moratorium period between childhood and adulthood among Caucasian ‘Mountain’ Jews (and other Caucasian groups). While these content-worlds and educational approaches seems to be in tension or even contradictions, I will argue that in practice there were mechanisms that allowed a great dill of complementary between them. Soviet modernization and socialization were transmitted– andmediated– by educational agents who were themselves members of the traditional groups of Caucasus. The outcome were several version of what I call ‘traditional modernity’, with various manifestations in the different communities of Caucasian ‘Mountain’ Jews, which got different shapes in relations to location (towns/ villages etc) and the characteristics of the local surroundings. The understanding of these patterns is important not only for historical studies, but also for educators who cope with current educational challenges in the different diasporas of Caucasian ‘Mountain’ Jews nowadays.

scholarly journals El derecho a la educación en Ecuador: Análisis de retos y avances a lo largo de las revoluciones Alfarista, Juliana y Ciudadana

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Gladys Portilla Faicán ◽  
Josue Cale Lituma ◽  
Denisse Dután Criollo
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Politica Educativa ◽  
The Right

  En este trabajo se aborda el derecho a la educación como el derecho humano fundamental para alcanzar el Buen Vivir. El objetivo de este estudio es plantear alternativas educativas en clave de derechos, en el contexto de desafíos educativos derivados del COVID-19. Se desarrolla un análisis cualitativo de fuentes bibliográficas acerca de la progresión del derecho a la educación en la política educativa de tres Revoluciones icónicas: Alfarista (1906), Juliana (1928-1929) y Ciudadana (2008). Como resultados del estudio bibliográfico se logra, primero, una lectura de la progresión del derecho a la educación, y segundo, el planteamiento de algunas propuestas para precautelar el derecho a la educación en el contexto actual de pandemia. Se concluye con una exhortación a reivindicar el derecho a la educación pública como elemento prioritario de la política educativa, para promover los demás derechos humanos, la transformación social y el Buen Vivir como derecho constitucional.    Palabras clave: derecho a la educación, política educativa pública, transformación social.   Abstract This work addresses the right to education as the fundamental human right to achieve Buen Vivir. The objective of this study is to propose educational alternatives in terms of rights, in the context of educational challenges derived from COVID-19. A qualitative analysis of bibliographic sources is developed about the progression of the right to education in the educational policy of three iconic Revolutions: Alfarist (1906), July (1928-1929) and Citizens’ (2008). As a result of the bibliographic study, first, a reading of the progression of the right to education is achieved, and second, some proposals to protect the right to education in the current context of a pandemic. It concludes with an exhortation to claim the right to public education as a priority element of educational policy, to promote other human rights, social transformation and Buen Vivir as a constitutional right education right, public educational policy.   Key words: education right, public educational policy, social transformation.

scholarly journals Article 32: The Right to Protection from Economic Exploitation and Hazardous Activities

2022 ◽  
pp. 327-337
Author(s):  
Gerison Lansdown
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Economic Exploitation ◽  
The Right ◽  
Children Rights

Abstract‘Governments should advertise more about children rights as well as make regular check-ups on homes and workplaces to ensure children are not doing child labour or unfairly paid.’ (Latin America/Caribbean).

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