Rövid leírás:
How can children grow to realize their inherent human rights and respect the rights of others? This book explores this question through children’s literature from Peter Rabbit to Horton Hears a Who! to Harry Potter. The authors investigate children’s rights under international law – identity and family rights, the right to be heard, the right to be free from discrimination, and other civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights – and consider the way in which those rights are embedded in children’s literature.
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Hosszú leírás:
How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others? In this book, authors Jonathan Todres and Sarah Higinbotham explore this question through both human rights law and children’s literature. Both international and domestic law affirm that children have rights, but how are these norms disseminated so that they make a difference in children’s lives? Human rights education research demonstrates that when children learn about human rights, they exhibit greater self-esteem and respect the rights of others. The Convention on the Rights of the Child — the most widely-ratified human rights treaty — not only ensures that children have rights, it also requires that states make those rights „widely known, by appropriate and active means, to adults and children alike.” This first-of-its-kind requirement for a human rights treaty indicates that if rights are to be meaningful to the lives of children, then government and civil society must engage with those rights in ways that are relevant to children.
Human Rights in Children’s Literature investigates children’s rights under international law — identity and family rights, the right to be heard, the right to be free from discrimination, and other civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights — and considers the way in which those rights are embedded in children’s literature from Peter Rabbit to Horton Hears a Who! to Harry Potter. This book traverses children’s rights law, literary theory, and human rights education to argue that in order for children to fully realize their human rights, they first have to imagine and understand them.
The authors analyze and discuss children’s books that exemplify the rights and ideas covered within that area of international law, as well as reader responses from children engaged with those same fictional texts. The result is a book that is complex, informative, and multifaceted… The selected results of this qualitative study help bolster the authors’ claims that children’s literature can and does affect the perception of human rights among young readers while supporting the idea that the study of children’s literature is valid and important in this context.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Foreword by Carol Bellamy, Former Executive Director of UNICEF
Preface by Jonathan Todres
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Making Children’s Rights Widely Known
Chapter 2: Participation Rights and the Voice of the Child
Chapter 3: Confronting Discrimination, Pursuing Equality
Chapter 4: Identity Rights and Family Rights
Chapter 5: Civil and Political Rights of Children: Accountability with Dignity
Chapter 6: Securing Child Well-being: The Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of the Child
Chapter 7: Adults in the World of Children’s Literature
Chapter 8: Reading, Rights, and the Best Interests of the Child
Appendix 1: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Appendix 2: Discrimination against Children
Appendix 3: Cinderella around the World
Appendix 4: Empirical Study: How Children Interpret Human Rights in Stories
Children’s Literature Bibliography
Bibliography
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