scholarly journals Merging the local and the global: a thematic analysis of rights-based picture books to facilitate a critical understanding of diverse childhood contexts in Ontario elementary school settings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabeela Karim Kassam
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Western Model ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Adult Protection

This study examines the importance of explicitly introducing children's rights in elementary educational classrooms in Ontario through the medium of rights-based picture books. Children's rights as framed within the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has been largely criticized for promoting a Western model of childhood, characteristic of innocence, play, and adult protection. Specifically, the UNCRC is often problematized for not capturing the diversity of childhoods that exist around the globe, as the articles in the Convention may not holistically examine the historical, cultural, and economic variables that children encompass. It is argued in this major research paper (MRP) that despite the limitations of the UNCRC, there is still a need to move beyond the universalism-cultural relativism dichotomy that currently frames this debate surrounding children's rights. Through a thematic analysis of selected rights-based picture books presented in the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario‟s (ETFO) (2011) Social Justice Begins with Me resource kit, this MRP will explore how picture books related to the UNCRC can be a tool in classrooms to destabilize assumptions present between and within Majority and Minority World contexts and encourage pluralistic worldviews where diverse childhoods are actively accepted rather than stereotypically rejected.

scholarly journals Merging the local and the global: a thematic analysis of rights-based picture books to facilitate a critical understanding of diverse childhood contexts in Ontario elementary school settings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabeela Karim Kassam
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Western Model ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Adult Protection

This study examines the importance of explicitly introducing children's rights in elementary educational classrooms in Ontario through the medium of rights-based picture books. Children's rights as framed within the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has been largely criticized for promoting a Western model of childhood, characteristic of innocence, play, and adult protection. Specifically, the UNCRC is often problematized for not capturing the diversity of childhoods that exist around the globe, as the articles in the Convention may not holistically examine the historical, cultural, and economic variables that children encompass. It is argued in this major research paper (MRP) that despite the limitations of the UNCRC, there is still a need to move beyond the universalism-cultural relativism dichotomy that currently frames this debate surrounding children's rights. Through a thematic analysis of selected rights-based picture books presented in the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario‟s (ETFO) (2011) Social Justice Begins with Me resource kit, this MRP will explore how picture books related to the UNCRC can be a tool in classrooms to destabilize assumptions present between and within Majority and Minority World contexts and encourage pluralistic worldviews where diverse childhoods are actively accepted rather than stereotypically rejected.

From “Perverse” to Progressive?: Advocating for Children’s Rights in Argentina

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-89
Author(s):  
Amy Risley
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Socioeconomic Conditions ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Social ◽  
United Nations Convention

This article argues that social issues are central to the children’s rights movement in Argentina. For more than a decade, child advocates have traced the plight of children to poverty, marginality, and neoliberal economic reforms. In particular, they have framed the issue of child welfare as closely related to socioeconomic conditions, underscored the “perverse” characteristics of the country’s existing institutions and policies, and called for reforms that accord with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Although the country’s policies are gradually being transformed due to a landmark child-protection law passed in 2005, a dramatically more progressive framework for children’s rights has not yet been adopted. Given that policymakers have largely failed to reverse the trends that activists perceive as harming children, it is expected that advocates will continue to criticise the gap between domestic realities and the social and economic rights included in the Convention.

scholarly journals Children’s Views on Children’s Rights: A Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 835-871
Author(s):  
Nicola Fairhall ◽  
Kevin Woods
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Children’S Views ◽  
Broad Level

Abstract Children’s rights are set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This systematic literature review aimed to investigate children’s views of children’s rights, at a broad level. Nine papers were included, from a range of countries and contexts. They all accessed the views of children and young people (aged up to 18 years). A content analysis was carried out using a recursive process of hybrid aggregative-configurative synthesis, and themes within children’s views and factors that may affect these were identified. These were ‘awareness of rights’, ‘value placed on (importance of) rights’, ‘impact of having/not having rights fulfilled’, ‘realisation and respect of rights’, ‘equality of rights’, ‘identifying and categorising of rights’, and ‘factors that may affect children’s views’. These were developed into a progression of rights realisation and implications for practice and further research were considered.

scholarly journals The Decolonisation of Children’s Rights and the Colonial Contours of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Faulkner ◽  
Conrad Nyamutata
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
New Imperialism ◽  
United Nations Convention

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (uncrc) 1989 has been celebrated for its universal acceptance. However, questions still arise around its provenance and representation. In particular, the Convention is deemed to enshrine Western notions of childhood upon which its rights were constructed. However, the legacy of the colonial contours of the new world order are often excluded within the context of children’s rights. It has been suggested that the new imperialism brandished under the guise of “children’s rights” serves as an effective tool to “beat” the Global South, deflecting from the continued Western dominance within the field of children’s rights. This paper interrogates the power dynamics and colonial legacy upon which views of children are formed, centralising the multitude of issues in the arena of children’s rights in the wake of what can be identified as Hokusai’s wave. 1

Children’s rights in Taiwan: A qualitative study on social workers’ perspectives

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087282095185
Author(s):  
Hsin-Yi Chen ◽  
I-Chen Tang
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Young Children ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations

The aim of this study was to investigate the perspectives of social workers in Taiwan on children’s rights. Among the 94 social workers who were interviewed, most were familiar with children’s rights terminology. From the results of this study, parental needs and the inability of young children to communicate effectively hindered the balance between protection of and participation by children. To better implement children’s rights, social workers should gain a deeper understanding of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and develop skills for communicating well with children and parents.

scholarly journals What is Left in the “Too Hard Basket”? Developments and Challenges for the Rights of Children in Conflict with the Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nessa Lynch ◽  
Ton Liefaard
Keyword(s):  
Justice System ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Age Limits ◽  
The Law ◽  
Cross National

The 30 years since the enactment of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has seen extensive developments in the theory and practice of children’s rights. Children’s rights are now an established academic discipline with the study of children in conflict with the law being a fundamental area of analysis. This paper takes the approach of highlighting three areas of development of children’s rights scholarship in relation to the criminal justice system: children’s rights, developmental science and notable themes emerging from cross-national scholarship, including age limits, diversion, effective participation and deprivation of liberty. In addition, it analyses three gaps or challenges which are “left in the too-hard basket” for the coming decades.

Constitutional Protection of Children’s Rights: Visibility, Agency and Enforceability

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-434
Author(s):  
Conor O’Mahony
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Constitutional Protection ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
National Constitution

Abstract While almost every state in the world has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, there is less consensus around the manner in which the rights protected by it should be protected in national constitutions. To say that a constitution makes provision for children’s rights is just a starting point: the extent to which a national constitution takes a genuine child rights approach will depend on the quality of the constitutional provisions in question. This article aims to provide a typology which can be used to assess whether the approach taken by any given constitution to the protection of children’s rights is in line with the child rights approach envisaged by the Convention by analysing individual constitutions along three separate spectrums. The Visibility spectrum measures how visible children are in a constitutional scheme; the Agency spectrum measures the extent to which children are considered to be independent, autonomous rights holders; and the Enforceability spectrum measures the extent to which children’s constitutional rights can be enforced.

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