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šolsko polje, letnik xxxi, številka 3–4
Ključne besede: otrokove pravice, izobraževanje, različnost, participacija,
družbene spremembe
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS TO, IN AND THROUGH EDUCATION:
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Children’s rights in education incorporate many challenges in terms of
both implementation and the pedagogical and social change opportuni-
ties they bring. First, ensuring access for all to quality education, regardless
of characteristics like gender, migrant status, disability status, socio-eco-
nomic status, ethnic background, family language etc., is a global concern.
Second, effective implementation of the United Nations Convention on
the Rights of the Child (1989) in schools – whether protecting them from
discrimination and violence or creating a spirit of mutual understanding
and acceptance, or fostering learning based on participatory pedagogies
and structures for greater social justice – remains a challenge for the 21st
century school. Finally, the ambition to enable children to become genu-
ine agents of change capable of responding to today’s challenges in a glo-
balised world, in all its complexity and diversity, while respecting the
rights of all, raises many questions which the field of education faces now
and will increasingly do so in the future.
Exploring the multidimensional relationships between children’s rights
and education, this article aims to give a clear picture of the field global-
ly, through the prism of diversity, participation and social transformation
as challenges for research and practice. Its aims are threefold: addressing
the right of the child to, in and through education. First, the main obsta-
cles to accessing education worldwide are identified; the issue of produc-
ing an inclusive, rights-infused environment in schools is then examined;
finally, the transformative dimension of education and rights-education
is discussed.
Keywords: children’s rights, education, diversity, participation, social
transformation
Suzana Kraljić
URESNIČEVANJE IN ZAŠČITA OTROKOVIH PRAVIC
DO IZOBRAŽEVANJA
Konvencija Združenih narodov o otrokovih pravicah, sprejeta leta 1989,
je prvi mednarodni zavezujoči instrument, ki otroke izrecno priznava kot
človeška bitja s prirojenimi pravicami. Konvencija določa otrokove pravi-
ce na vseh področjih njihovega življenja; eno od teh področij predstavlja
izobraževanje. Upoštevajoč pomen izobraževanja za kratko-, srednje- in
dolgoročno blagostanje otrok se članek osredotoča na izvajanje in zaščito
240
Ključne besede: otrokove pravice, izobraževanje, različnost, participacija,
družbene spremembe
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS TO, IN AND THROUGH EDUCATION:
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Children’s rights in education incorporate many challenges in terms of
both implementation and the pedagogical and social change opportuni-
ties they bring. First, ensuring access for all to quality education, regardless
of characteristics like gender, migrant status, disability status, socio-eco-
nomic status, ethnic background, family language etc., is a global concern.
Second, effective implementation of the United Nations Convention on
the Rights of the Child (1989) in schools – whether protecting them from
discrimination and violence or creating a spirit of mutual understanding
and acceptance, or fostering learning based on participatory pedagogies
and structures for greater social justice – remains a challenge for the 21st
century school. Finally, the ambition to enable children to become genu-
ine agents of change capable of responding to today’s challenges in a glo-
balised world, in all its complexity and diversity, while respecting the
rights of all, raises many questions which the field of education faces now
and will increasingly do so in the future.
Exploring the multidimensional relationships between children’s rights
and education, this article aims to give a clear picture of the field global-
ly, through the prism of diversity, participation and social transformation
as challenges for research and practice. Its aims are threefold: addressing
the right of the child to, in and through education. First, the main obsta-
cles to accessing education worldwide are identified; the issue of produc-
ing an inclusive, rights-infused environment in schools is then examined;
finally, the transformative dimension of education and rights-education
is discussed.
Keywords: children’s rights, education, diversity, participation, social
transformation
Suzana Kraljić
URESNIČEVANJE IN ZAŠČITA OTROKOVIH PRAVIC
DO IZOBRAŽEVANJA
Konvencija Združenih narodov o otrokovih pravicah, sprejeta leta 1989,
je prvi mednarodni zavezujoči instrument, ki otroke izrecno priznava kot
človeška bitja s prirojenimi pravicami. Konvencija določa otrokove pravi-
ce na vseh področjih njihovega življenja; eno od teh področij predstavlja
izobraževanje. Upoštevajoč pomen izobraževanja za kratko-, srednje- in
dolgoročno blagostanje otrok se članek osredotoča na izvajanje in zaščito
240
