ABSTRACT
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
part 1|2 pages
Policy affecting young children’s rights
chapter 2|14 pages
Implementing the rights of young children
chapter 4|12 pages
Understanding children’s rights in early childhood
chapter 5|13 pages
Towards comprehensive and systematic children’s rights education for early childhood education and care students
chapter 6|11 pages
Satu Desa, Satu Paud – one village, one centre
part 2|2 pages
Young children’s rights to protection
chapter 8|12 pages
Rhetoric and realities
chapter 13|13 pages
Young children’s rights in ‘tough’ times
chapter 15|12 pages
Being a refugee child in Lebanon
chapter 16|9 pages
‘Dad! Cut that part out!’
part 3|2 pages
Young children’s rights to provision
chapter 21|14 pages
Learning with and from Colombia
chapter 22|16 pages
Enabling children’s rights in Wales with early years professionals
chapter 23|15 pages
Beyond recognition
chapter 25|11 pages
Young children’s education and care beyond the school walls
chapter 26|16 pages
Early childhood education and care for Indigenous children and their families from colonised nations
chapter 28|12 pages
Young children and their educational rights
chapter 30|22 pages
Play Maps
part 4|2 pages
Young children’s rights to participation