Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Children’s
and Social Work:
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Contrasting
ti MModels
d l andd
g
Understandings
• Different typologies
• Shared communalities:
– Goals
– Target groups
– Educational context
– Themes
Defining
g Children’s Rights
g Education
• 3 characteristics:
1. The dominance of teaching g
2. Children’s rights education as an
instrumental practice
3. Individualization & professionalization of
the children’s rights education field
Children’s Rights Education as an
Implementation Strategy for the UNCRC
Education = teaching
Children’s Rights Education as an
Implementation Strategy for the UNCRC
2 Children’s
2. Children s rights education as an
instrumental practice
– children’s
hild ’ rights
i ht are presented
t d as objective
bj ti
knowledge
– gap-problem
‘gap problem’:: gap between daily life of
children and the rhetoric of children’s rights
– ‘human
human rights from above’
above (Ife,
(Ife 2006)
Children’s Rights Education as an
Implementation Strategy for the UNCRC