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ERIC Number: EJ893909
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jul
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1746-1979
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Miseducating Children about Their Rights
Howe, R. Brian; Covell, Katherine
Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, v5 n2 p91-102 Jul 2010
This article concerns educating children in schools about their basic rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The question we address is the teaching of responsibilities.We point out that although there is no mention of children's responsibilities in the Convention, responsibilities are inherent in the concept of rights. Therefore, children's rights education requires that children learn responsibilities that go together with rights. But we also point out that although there is a conceptual linkage between rights and responsibilities, effective education requires that the central focus is on rights and that children are given the opportunity to discover for themselves the connection between rights and responsibilities. That teachers unduly focus on responsibilities is miseducation about children's rights. Our latter discussion is based on our observations of a children's rights education program in Hampshire, England.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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