Children's rights and education: international perspectives

Contents: Lesley Emerson/Laura Lundy: Education Rights in a Society Emerging from Conflict: Curriculum and Student Participation as a Pathway to the Realization of Rights – Martha Baiyee/Celeste Hawkins/Valerie Polakow: Children's Rights and Educational Exclusion: The Impact of Zero-Tolerance in Schools – Natasha Blanchet-Cohen: The Protagonism of Under-18 Youth in the Québec Student Movement: The Right to Political Participation and Education – Panagiota Karagianni/Soula Mitakidou/Evangelia Tressou: What's Right in Children's Rights? The Subtext of Dependency – Kylie Smith: A Rights-Based Approach to Observing and Assessing Children in the Early Childhood Classroom – Lacey Peters/Lisa Lacy: «You're Not Listening to Us»: Explicating Children's School Experiences to Build Opportunity for Increased Participation Within School Communities in the United States – Jenny Ritchie/Cheryl Rau: Renarrativizing Indigenous Rights-Based Provision Within «Mainstream» Early Childhood Services – Nkidi Phatudi/Mokgadi Moletsane: Restoring Indigenous Languages and the Right to Learn in a Familiar Language: A Case of Black South African Children – Bekisizwe Ndimande/Beth Blue Swadener: Pursuing Democracy Through Education Rights: Perspectives from South Africa – Harry Shier/Martha Lidia Padilla/Nohemí Molina Torres/Leonilda Barrera López/Moisés Molina Torres/Zorayda Castillo/Karen Alicia Ortiz Alvarado: Claiming the Right to Quality Education in Nicaragua – Colette Murray: Getting an Education: How Travellers' Knowledge and Experience Shape Their Engagement with the System – Leodinito Y. Cañete: When Boys Are Pushed-Pulled out of School: Rights to Education in the Philippines – Janette Habashi: Intersections of Education and Freedom of Religion Rights in the UNCRC and in Practice.