Original scientific paper
Operationalization of Children's Rights Education Policy: Analysis of The Documents Issued in The Republic Of Croatia and in The United States of America
Ivana Batarelo Kokić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8830-6252
; University of Split, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Split, Croatia
Anđela Podrug
Anita Mandarić Vukušić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1532-0069
; University of Split, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Split, Croatia
Abstract
The paper discusses the operationalization of education policies on children's rights. Children's rights primarily derive from fundamental human rights that foster the fulfillment of the biological, social, psychological, intellectual and spiritual needs of all. Adoption of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child has brought a change in the understanding of the children's rights, whereupon the active role of the child as the holder of her/his own rights has become recognized as well as the philosophy of inclusion, which provides equal opportunities for all children and ensures the growth and development in accordance with the individual abilities of every child. The aim of this paper is to examine how children and childhood are presented in the documents on children's rights, with an emphasis on the active role of the child and protective attitude towards the child. The paper also seeks to examine in what way and to what extent the fundamental inclusive principles are represented in the documents on children's rights. The results of a qualitative descriptive analysis of documents indicate that although relevant literature promotes the role of the child as an active participant and a holder of her/his own rights, the aforementioned concept needs to be further developed.
Keywords
child as a right holder; children's rights; education policy; inclusion
Hrčak ID:
234950
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Publication date:
23.12.2019.
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