Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education
- Cambridge Handbooks in Education
- The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Historical Perspectives
- Part Two Philosophical and Normative Foundations
- Part Three Key Topics and Concepts
- 16 Educational Justice and Democratic Education
- 17 Global Justice and Democratic Education
- 18 Debate and Deliberation in Democratic Education
- 19 Agonistic Democracy and the Question of Education
- 20 Punishment and Democratic Education
- 21 Children’s Rights and Democratic Education
- 22 Education, Trust, and the Conversation of Democracy
- 23 Patriotism and Democratic Education
- 24 The Voice of Poetry in Cultivating Cosmopolitan and Democratic Imagination
- 25 Disability and Democratic Education
- Part Four Challenges
- Index
- References
21 - Children’s Rights and Democratic Education
from Part Three - Key Topics and Concepts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2023
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education
- Cambridge Handbooks in Education
- The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Historical Perspectives
- Part Two Philosophical and Normative Foundations
- Part Three Key Topics and Concepts
- 16 Educational Justice and Democratic Education
- 17 Global Justice and Democratic Education
- 18 Debate and Deliberation in Democratic Education
- 19 Agonistic Democracy and the Question of Education
- 20 Punishment and Democratic Education
- 21 Children’s Rights and Democratic Education
- 22 Education, Trust, and the Conversation of Democracy
- 23 Patriotism and Democratic Education
- 24 The Voice of Poetry in Cultivating Cosmopolitan and Democratic Imagination
- 25 Disability and Democratic Education
- Part Four Challenges
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter reviews contemporary discussions in political philosophy and educational theory about the character of children’s rights and their importance to debates about the character of democratic education. It focuses on five areas in which there is contestation about the interpretation and implications of children’s rights: (i) issues about the appropriate content of democratic education; (ii) issues about children’s rights of access to education and the degree to which educational inequalities are acceptable; (ii) issues about the kind of control parents should exercise over the kind of education children receive; (iv) issues about the degree to which schools are themselves sites of democratic activity; and (v) issues about how educational institutions should be designed or reformed in order respect the educational rights of children.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education , pp. 346 - 360Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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