Children's Rights, Educational Research and the UNCRC: past, present and future

Children's Rights, Educational Research and the UNCRC provides international perspectives on contemporary issues pertaining to children's rights in education. The global context, relevance and implications of children's rights, educational research and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) are explored from multiple perspectives. Since the development of the UNCRC over 25 years ago, significant changes have occurred in the way that children's rights are considered, conceptualised and enacted. Even so, there remains a continued debate surrounding the extent to which the children's rights agenda is embraced within education, as researchers, teachers and other educational professionals continue to consider the degree to which the UNCRC informs practice. This book provides critical and focused discussion on the challenges of enacting children's rights in educational research contexts and alerts readers to the ways in which children's rights provide a provocation to think and practise differently.

Chapter contributions from scholars in Australia, Finland, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom provide diverse contexts from which subsequent educational and research practice can be derived. Each chapter problematises different aspects of children's rights within the context of educational research with both broad and specific wide-ranging implications and provides examples of different ways that these aspects are considered in practice.
CONTENTS
Vicki Coppock & Jenna Gillett-Swan. Introduction. Children's Rights, Educational Research and the UNCRC
John I'Anson. UNCRC at 25: a critical assessment of achievements and trajectories with reference to educational research
Louise Gwenneth Phillips. Educating Children and Young People on the UNCRC: actions, avoidance and awakenings
Nina Thelander. Human Rights Education: teaching children's human rights - a matter of why, what and how
Reetta Niemi, Kristiina Kumpulainen & Lasse Lipponen. Pupils' Participation in the Finnish Classroom: turning the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into pedagogical practices
Joana Lucio & Fernando Ilidio Ferreira. Children's Rights in Times of Austerity: social awareness of pre-service teachers in Portugal
Gordon Tait & Mallihai Tambyah. Rights without a Remedy? Children's Privacy, Social Governance and the UNCRC
Jenna Gillett-Swan & Vicki Coppock. The Future of Children's Rights, Educational Research and the UNCRC in a Digital World: possibilities and prospects