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pervaded with the social issues of today’s globalised world, remains a ma-
jor challenge for 21st century educators. Further, most research on the top-
ic remains focused on describing the current situation, offering few solu-
tions to move towards effective transformative education.
This does not take into account the opportunities for the educa-
tional institution to be a bastion of children’s human rights promotion
and defence: enabling children to become true agents of change capable
of responding to the challenges of our diverse, globalised world in a rea-
soned, enlightened and democratic way, while respecting the rights of all,
for greater social justice. This presents a new set of questions for research-
ers and practitioners: how can these ambitions transcend cultural differ-
ences? How can educators be best trained to manage projects of this na-
ture, which methods and instruments are at their disposal? Transforming
the world of today and tomorrow is both a challenge and an opportunity
faced by education and children’s rights and presented to, by and for chil-
dren, who have never needed their rights more.
References
Authoring Group Educational Reporting (2016) Education in Germany
2016: An indicator-based report including an analysis of education and
migration. W. Bertelmann Verlag. DOI: 10.3278/60001820ew
Bajaj, M. (2017) Human rights education: Theory, research and praxis.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Bajaj, M. and DasGupta, R. (2017) Editors’ Introduction. International
Journal of Human Rights Education 1(1), pp. 1–5.
Benton, T. (1993) Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social
Justice. London: Verso.
Brantefors, L., Quennerstedt, A., and Tarman, B. (2016) Teaching and
learning children’s human rights: A research synthesis. Cogent
Education 3(1).
Covell, K. (2013) Children’s human rights education as a means to social jus-
tice: A case study from England. International Journal for Social Justice
2(1), pp. 35–48.
Curren, R. (2009) Education as a social right in a diverse society. Journal of
Philosophy of Education 43(1), pp. 45–56.
Darbellay, F. (2019) Les droits de l’enfant: éducation, liberté, créativité. In
Zermatten J., and Jaffé Ph. D. (eds.). 30 ans de droits de l’enfant : un
nouvel élan pour l’ humanité!, pp. 256–264. Genève: Université de
Genève.
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pervaded with the social issues of today’s globalised world, remains a ma-
jor challenge for 21st century educators. Further, most research on the top-
ic remains focused on describing the current situation, offering few solu-
tions to move towards effective transformative education.
This does not take into account the opportunities for the educa-
tional institution to be a bastion of children’s human rights promotion
and defence: enabling children to become true agents of change capable
of responding to the challenges of our diverse, globalised world in a rea-
soned, enlightened and democratic way, while respecting the rights of all,
for greater social justice. This presents a new set of questions for research-
ers and practitioners: how can these ambitions transcend cultural differ-
ences? How can educators be best trained to manage projects of this na-
ture, which methods and instruments are at their disposal? Transforming
the world of today and tomorrow is both a challenge and an opportunity
faced by education and children’s rights and presented to, by and for chil-
dren, who have never needed their rights more.
References
Authoring Group Educational Reporting (2016) Education in Germany
2016: An indicator-based report including an analysis of education and
migration. W. Bertelmann Verlag. DOI: 10.3278/60001820ew
Bajaj, M. (2017) Human rights education: Theory, research and praxis.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Bajaj, M. and DasGupta, R. (2017) Editors’ Introduction. International
Journal of Human Rights Education 1(1), pp. 1–5.
Benton, T. (1993) Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social
Justice. London: Verso.
Brantefors, L., Quennerstedt, A., and Tarman, B. (2016) Teaching and
learning children’s human rights: A research synthesis. Cogent
Education 3(1).
Covell, K. (2013) Children’s human rights education as a means to social jus-
tice: A case study from England. International Journal for Social Justice
2(1), pp. 35–48.
Curren, R. (2009) Education as a social right in a diverse society. Journal of
Philosophy of Education 43(1), pp. 45–56.
Darbellay, F. (2019) Les droits de l’enfant: éducation, liberté, créativité. In
Zermatten J., and Jaffé Ph. D. (eds.). 30 ans de droits de l’enfant : un
nouvel élan pour l’ humanité!, pp. 256–264. Genève: Université de
Genève.
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