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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
1. What is the nature of children’s participation in their diverse social ecologies from a rights-based perspective?
1. Check your understanding
2. Extend your understanding
3. Apply your understanding
3. What is the teacher’s role in supporting children to express their rights as learners?
1. Check your understanding
2. Extend your understanding
3. Apply your understanding
Resources
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
1. The following resources describe the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The second resource is designed for children.
UNESCO (n.d.), Fact Sheet: The Right to Participation. Available online: https://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Right-to-Participation.pdf (accessed 24 January 2018).
UNESCO (n.d.), UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Child Friendly Language.
Available online: https://www.unicef.org/rightsite/files/uncrcchilldfriendlylanguage.pdf
(accessed 24 January 2018).
2. These resources pertain to children’s participation:
MacNaughton, G., G. Hughes, and K. Smith (2007), ‘Young Children’s Rights and Public Policy: Practices and Possibilities for Citizenship in the Early Years’, Children and Society, 21 (6): 458-469. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2007.00096.x
Osborn, A., and L.M. Bromfield (2007), ‘Participation of Children and Young People in Care in Decisions Affecting their Lives,” National Child Protection Clearinghouse Research Brief No. 6. Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies.
3. These resources connect children’s rights and citizenship with classroom practice:
Di Santo, A., and N. Kenneally (2014), ‘A Call for a Shift in Thinking: Viewing Children as Rights-holders in Early Childhood Curriculum Frameworks’, Childhood: 395-406. DOI: 10.1080/00094056.2014.982969
Invernizzi, A., and J. Williams (2008), Children and Citizenship, London: SAGE.
Project Zero (n.d.), ‘Children are Citizens Project’, Project Zero. Available online: http://www.pz.harvard.edu/projects/children-are-citizens (accessed 24 January 2018).
4. The following are more theoretical resources or academic studies of citizenship:
Ailwood, J., J. Brownlee, E. Johansson, C. Cobb-Moore, S. Walker, G. Boulton-Lewis (2011), ‘Educational Policy for Citizenship in the Early Years in Australia’, Journal of Education Policy, 26(5): 641-653.
Bath, C., and R. Karlsson (2016), ‘The Ignored Citizen: Young Children’s Subjectivities in Swedish and English Early Childhood Education Settings’, Childhood, 23(4): 554-565.
Dunne, J. (2006), ‘Childhood and Citizenship: A Conversation Across Modernity’, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 14 (1): 5-1. https://doi.org/10.1080/13502930685209771
Jans, M. (2004), ‘Children as Citizens: Towards a Contemporary Notion of Child Participation’, Childhood, 11(1): 27-44.
Johansson, E., A. Emilson, and A-M Puroila (2017), Values Education in Early Childhood Settings: Concepts, Approaches and Practices. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer International Publishing.