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Children’s experiences, expressions and practices of citizenship and rights

PhD Viva Success for the Voice, Agency and Rights in Education (VARiE) research group at School of Education UCD. Incredibly proud of VARiE member Jessica Daminelli who this week successfully…

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May 31, 2022

Children’s Rights, Research Methods

Assessing knowledge of children’s rights

How can we know what children know about their rights? Is it possible to assess this knowledge? If so, what is the best way to do it? Dr Aida Urrea…

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June 25, 2021

Children’s Rights, Children’s Voice, Research Methods, Youth Activism

Understanding children’s rights to peaceful assembly in the digital era

Children’s activities and education increasingly take place online, to the point that distinguishing between the online and offline worlds of children is increasingly challenging. While it is not uncommon for…

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September 30, 2020

Children’s Right Education, Children’s Rights

Why do teachers need to know about children’s rights?

Teachers have to know a lot of things to give one single class, from the content they are teaching to pedagogical strategies and classroom management techniques. Teachers need to master…

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August 27, 2020

Children’s Right Education

Impact as a wicked problem in Children’s Rights Education

Using the idea of ‘wicked problems’ to discussed Children’s Rights Education (CRE) can be useful to better understand the complex challenges it poses for practitioners as well as policy-makers. Re-framing…

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