Lauer, Milena (2022) Pioneers of Change? Practising Children’s Rights at School - A Qualitative Double Case Study -. Master thesis, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences.
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Abstract
Thirty years ago, Germany ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was proposed in 1989. It has various implications for the educational practice because it is built on a new understanding of children and childhood. However, the children’s rights are not yet a lived natural practice at most schools in Germany, and when implementing them, inherent tensions of the children’s rights convention become visible. In a double case study, two German schools that aim to put the child’s rights into practice have been analysed and compared to answer the research question: “How are the chil- dren’s rights Articles 3, 12, 29 and 31 practised at a “Children’s Rights School” and a “Democratic School” in Germany, and how do the practices differ?” Therefore, interviews and focus groups have been conducted, and the data has been analysed in a qualitative content analysis. Based on four exemplary children’s rights that were chosen because of the inherent tensions between them, it was shown which motivations there are for implementing children’s rights at school, where the difficulties lay and what specific concepts were developed for the four individual rights. It was also shown that there are many occurring tensions that come with that transposition of Children’s Rights in the school context that should not be neglected. And while there are specific challenges and advantages for both types of schools, it became clear that there are opportunities to implement children’s rights in private and state schools and that both schools could be pioneers of change.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Ploeg, P.A. van der and Meerman, S. te |
| Degree programme: | Pedagogical and Educational Sciences |
| Differentiation route: | Ethics and Education: philosophy, history and law [Master Pedagogical and Educational Sciences] |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Aug 2022 08:41 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2022 08:41 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1384 |
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