Written to commemorate 30 years since the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children’s Rights reflects upon the status of children aged 0–8 years around the world, whether they are respected or neglected, and how we may move forward. With contributions from international experts and emerging authorities on children’s rights, Murray, Blue Swadener and Smith have produced this highly significant textbook on young children’s rights globally.
Containing sections on policy, along with rights to protection, provision and participation for young children, this book combines discussions of children’s rights and early childhood development, and investigates the crucial yet frequently overlooked link between the two. The authors examine how policy, practice and research could be utilised to address the barriers to universal respect for children, to create a safer and more enriching world for them to live and flourish in.
The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children’s Rights is an essential resource for students and academics in early childhood education, social work and paediatrics, as well as for researchers, policymakers, leaders and practitioners involved in the provision of children’s services and paedeatric healthcare, and international organisations with an interest in or ability to influence national or global policies on children’s rights.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Part 1 Policy Affecting Young Children’s Rights
Chapter 1 Introduction: The State of Young Children’s Rights
Jane Murray, Beth Blue Swadener and Kylie Smith
Chapter 2 Implementing the Rights of Young Children: An Assessment of the Impact of General Comment No. 7 on Law and Policy on a Global Scale
Laura Lundy
Chapter 3 Babies’ Rights, When Human Rights Begin
Priscilla Alderson and Tamaki Yoshida
Chapter 4 Understanding Children’s Rights in Early Childhood: Policy and Practice in Australia
Margaret Coady and John Tobin
Chapter 5 Towards Comprehensive and Systematic Children’s Rights Education for Early Childhood Education and Care Students: Experiences from Ireland
Sheila Long
Chapter 6 Satu Desa Satu Paud – One Village, One Centre: Unpacking the Meaning of Children’s Participation within ECE Policy and Provision in Indonesia
Vina Adriany, Hani Yulindrasari and Marek Tesar
Part 2 Young Children’s Rights to Protection
Chapter 7 Introduction: Young Children’s Rights to Protection
Jane Murray
Chapter 8 Rhetoric and Realities: Macro-Policy as an Instrument of Deflection in Meeting the Needs of Young Children Marginalised by SEND
Philip Garner
Chapter 9 Risk and Safety in Western Society
Zoi Nikiforidou
Chapter 10 The (In)Visibility of Infants and Young Children in Child Protection
Eunice Lumsden
Chapter 11 Childcare and Standardisation: Threats to Young Children’s Right to Education
Peter Moss
Chapter 12 Leave No One Behind: Young Children’s Rights to Education
Mercy Musomi
Chapter 13 Young Children’s Rights in ‘Tough’ Times: Towards an Intersectional Children’s Rights Policy Agenda in Greece and Scotland
Kristina Konstantoni and Kyriaki Patsianta
Chapter 14 Achieving Rights for Young Children in Ghana: Enablers and Barriers
Prospera Tedam
Chapter 15 Being a Refugee Child in Lebanon: Implementing Young Children’s Rights in a Digital World through the Blockchain Educational Passport
Cristina Devecchi
Chapter 16 ‘Dad! Cut that Part Out!’ Children’s Rights to Privacy in the Age of ‘Generation Tagged’: Sharenting, Digital Kidnapping and the Child Micro-Celebrity
Emma Nottingham
Chapter 17 Safeguarding the Protection Rights of Children in the Eastern Caribbean
Jane Murray, Shelly-Ann Harper, Lisa McClean-Trotman and Heather Stewart
Chapter 18 Understanding Young Children’s Experiences Growing Up with Domestic Violence from a Children’s Rights Perspective
Vera Lopez
Part 3 Young Children’s Rights to Provision
Chapter 19 Introduction: Young Children’s Provision Rights
Kylie Smith
Chapter 20 Young Children’s Right to Good Nutrition
George Kent
Chapter 21 Learning with and from Colombia: Perspectives on Rights-Based Early Childhood Policies
Mathias Urban, Diana Paola Gómez Muñoz and Germán Camilo Zárate Pinto
Chapter 22 Enabling Children’s Rights in Wales with Early Years Professionals: Policy and Practice
Nicola Welton, Glenda Tinney and Sioned Saer
Chapter 23 Beyond Recognition: Persistent Neglect of Young Traveller Children’s Rights in Ireland
Colette Murray
Chapter 24 Listening and Deciding: Children’s Rights in Paediatric Palliative Care
Luigina Mortari, Ludovica De Panfilis and Luca Ghirotto
Chapter 25 Young Children’s Education and Care Beyond the School Walls: The Right to Adventure, Away
Casey Y. Myers and Rochelle L. Hostler
Chapter 26 Early Childhood Education and Care for Indigenous Children and their Families from Colonised Nations: Working Towards Culturally Meaningful Service Provision
Rebekah Grace, Mere Skerrett. Jenny Ritchie, Margo Greenwood and Michelle Trudgett
Chapter 27 Respectful Educators, Capable Learners: Then and Now
Cathy Nutbrown
Chapter 28 Young Children and their Educational Rights: Critical Perspectives on Policy and Practice in India
Amita Gupta
Chapter 29 Children’s Rights in Hungary in Early Childhood Education and Care
Sándor Pálfi, Erzsébet Rákó, Anikó Varga Nagy and Eleonóra Teszenyi
Chapter 30 Play Maps: Supporting Children’s Provisional Rights to Play in their Local Community
Cat Sewell, Jo Smale and Kylie Smith
Part 4 Young Children’s Rights to Participation
Chapter 31 Introduction: Young Children’s Participation Rights
Beth Blue Swadener
Chapter 32 Towards a More Participatory Fulfilment of Young Children’s Rights in Early Learning Settings: Unpacking Universalist Ideas in India, Scotland and the EU
Caralyn Blaisdell, John M. Davis, Vinnarasan Aruldoss and Lynn McNair
Chapter 33 Immigrant Children’s Life Worlds in the U.S. Borderlands
Angeles Maldonado, Beth Blue Swadener and Casey Khaleesi
Chapter 34 Exploring Global Citizenship with Canadian and Tanzanian Children through Voice and Multimodal Meaning Making
Jodi Streelasky
Chapter 35 Children’s Perspectives on Belonging in Icelandic Preschools
Johanna Einarsdottir and Sara M. Ólafsdóttir
Chapter 36 How to Create an Open Listening Climate: Using the Lundy Model of Chld Participation with Adults
Alison Moore
Chapter 37 What Do Children Expect Out of Research Participation?
Sue Dockett and Bob Perry
Chapter 38 "Otherness" in Research with Infants: Marginality or Potentiality?
Ioanna Palaiologou
Chapter 39 Children as Research Consultants: The Ethics and Rights of No Research About Them Without Consulting with Them
Sonya Gaches and Megan Callagher
Chapter 40 Using the UNCRC as a Frame of References for Ethical Research with Young Children
Aline Cole-Albäck
Chapter 41 Combining Children’s Participation Rights in Research with Professionalisation of Educators and Teachers: Critical Analysis of a Transition Study Design
Petra Büker
Chapter 42 Young Children’s Right to Play during their Transition from Early Childhood Education to Primary School in Chile
Daniela S. Jadue-Roa and Matías Knust
Chapter 43 Epilogue: Imagining Child Rights Futures
Jane Murray, Beth Blue Swadener and Kylie Smith
About the Author :
Jane Murray is Associate Professor and Co-Director at the Centre for Education and Research, University of Northampton, UK. She has published extensively on early childhood education and social inclusion, and is Editor of the International Journal of Early Years Education.
Beth Blue Swadener is Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry and Social and Cultural Pedagogy in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, USA.
Kylie Smith is Associate Professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education’s Social Transformation and Education Hub at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
