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21 - Children’s Rights and Democratic Education

from Part Three - Key Topics and Concepts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2023

By
Colin M. Macleod
Edited by
Julian Culp ,
Johannes Drerup  and
Douglas Yacek
Julian Culp
Affiliation:
The American University of Paris, France
Johannes Drerup
Affiliation:
Universität Dortmund
Douglas Yacek
Affiliation:
Universität Dortmund
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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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autonomychildren’s rightscivic virtuedemocracyequalityjusticepluralismschoolstoleration
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The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education , pp. 346 - 360
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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