Providing perspectives, insights and recommendations, this is a comprehensive overview of the current state of children's rights and education around the world. Written by experts in their fields, the book includes chapters on:
national accountability
how international standards can be implemented
the rights of children with special needs
respecting children's views in education
education and democracy
how the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child can be implemented.
This authoritative and thought-provoking volume will be essential reading for anyone involved in, or concerned about, the rights of children in education around the world.
Stuart Hart is the Director of the Office for the Study of the Rights of the Child at the School of Education of Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, USA and the Coordinator of Children's Rights Education International. Cynthia Price Cohen is the Director of ChildRights International Research Institute in the USA. Martha Farrell Erickson is the Director of the University of Minnesota's Children, Youth and Family Consortium in the USA. Malfrid Flekkoy was the world's first ombudsman for children in Sweden from 1981-1989 and is currently Chief Psychologist at the Nic Waals Institute in Oslo, Norway.