Children's rights and early childhood education: links to theory and advocacy.(Report)

From: Australian Journal of Early Childhood | Date: September 1, 2007| Author: Smith, Anne B. | Copyright information

THERE IS STILL RESISTANCE and hostility within some circles to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Convention), but professionals working with children should be familiar with rights principles and their use in advocating for change. A rights perspective fits well with the new paradigm of Childhood Studies, which is critical of developmental psychology and recognises multiple childhoods, children's agency and competency, and the primacy of children's lived experien...

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