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Young children's enactments of human rights in early childhood education
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. (SMED)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3812-0652
2016 (English)In: International Journal of Early Years Education, ISSN 0966-9760, E-ISSN 1469-8463, Vol. 24, no 1, p. 5-18Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper explores ways in which human rights become part of and affect young children’s everyday practices in early childhood education and, more particularly, how very young children enact human rights in the preschool setting. The study is conducted in a Swedish preschool through observations of the everyday practices of a group of children aged between 1 and 3 years. With a child view based on human rights theory and childhood sociology, an action-based methodology for seeking children’s perspective is used to analyse the observation data. Three rights areas are identified in which children frequently deal with human rights in their actions and where they enact a range of possible rights holder positions: ownership, influence and equal value. These rights areas, and the children’s various enactments of the rights, are reflected against the preschool context as a co-constructor to the actions of the participants.

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Routledge, 2016. Vol. 24, no 1, p. 5-18
Keywords [en]
children's rights, early childhood education, human rights, children's perspectives
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Education
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-47021DOI: 10.1080/09669760.2015.1096238ISI: 000386894300002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84945219089OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-47021DiVA, id: diva2:878771
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Swedish Research Council, 721 – 2008 – 4621Available from: 2015-12-09 Created: 2015-12-09 Last updated: 2017-12-01Bibliographically approved

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