The United Nations Convention ofthe Rights ofthe Child challenges all of those responsible
for the education of children to think in new ways about how to prepare them for democratic …

Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989, the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that children in all countries have fundamental …

A key condition in meeting these challenges is that educators possess a deep moral
commitment to liberal democratic values and a strong belief in the importance of mutual …

This paper begins by reviewing the relevance of the 1948 United Nations Declaration of
Human Rights, and the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to school students …

Roger: Many of the programs I've observed are in the" developing world"? I prefer to call it"
the South"? and most of them make a link between the way they work and the way they feel …

Young Children as Citizens explores how young children (birth to 12 years of age) can and
should participate in civic life. It reflects new images of young children as social actors …

Discusses the Step by Step Program, funded by the Open Society Institute (OSI) and
operated in Eastern and Central Europe, former Soviet states, Haiti, and South Africa …

This book provides different perspectives on the concept of children's rights, including policy,
educational, and children's perspectives. It examines how the crucial ideas of the …

This chapter focuses on economic justice, a belief that all humans should be able to provide
for themselves and their families, through their labor, basic needs–including housing, food …

In addition to imparting scientific knowledge, an abiding purpose of public education is to
enhance understanding of society and encourage demo-cratic attitudes in children. Article …