Murris, Karin (2019). Children's Development, Capability Approaches and Postdevelopmental Child: The Birth to Four Curriculum in South Africa. Global Studies of Childhood, v9 n1 p56-71 Mar. This article explores how three well-known conceptual frameworks view child development and how they assume particular figurations of the child in the context of the South African National Curriculum Framework for Children from Birth to Four. This new curriculum is based on a children's rights framework. The capability approaches offer important insights for children's rights advocates, but, like psychosocial theories of child development, assumes a 'becoming-adult view of child', which poses a serious threat to children's right to genuine participation. They also share the exclusive focus on understanding development as located ontologically "in" the individualised human. In contrast, critical posthumanism queers humanist understandings of child development and reconfigures subjectivity through a radical philosophical "decentring" of the human. The relevance of this shift for postdevelopmental child in the context of the new South African early years curriculum… [Direct]

Jensen, Marianne, Comp. (1996). The Indigenous World, 1995-96 = El Mundo Indigena, 1995-96. This annual publication examines political, legal, social, and educational issues concerning indigenous peoples around the world during 1995-96. Part I highlights news events and ongoing situations in specific countries, including threats to indigenous territories, human rights violations, political victories, developments at the United Nations, and activism by indigenous women. In the Arctic, resolutions adopted at the 7th Inuit Circumpolar Conference were concerned with self-determination, conflict over Inuit rights to harvest bowhead whales, ongoing conflict between the Gwich'in and Inuit peoples in northeastern Alaska over oil drilling on indigenous land, and continued efforts of indigenous organizations to preserve subsistence hunting and fishing rights. In North America, news events and ongoing situations include: (1) conflict between Canada's Lubicon Indian Band and the Daishowa Paper Company and UNOCAL sour gas plant regarding the environmental degradation of Native land and…

Kamenarac, Olivera (2023). Reconfiguring Teacher Agency within Market-Driven Early Childhood Spaces. Policy Futures in Education, v21 n8 p932-946. Neoliberal reforms have transformed the early childhood education (ECE) landscape worldwide. The purpose of ECE, what counts as early education and care, and "in" ECE has been dangerously narrowed to the production of human capital and rationalised by the myth that investing in young children (human capital) will guarantee a better economic future. In this manner, individuals' efforts and talents achieved through 'high-quality ECE' become critical determinators of their own and a country's success. At the same time, individuals' characteristics and pre-determined circumstances (e.g. race, gender, socioeconomic background), including underlying causes of inequality in society, become a fault of those not exercising the right to 'freely choose' from opportunities available on the market. Consistent with a body of literature documenting the damaging impacts of neoliberalism on early childhood education (ECE), this article explores how teacher agency has been reconfigured under… [Direct]

King, Linda, Ed. (1998). Reflecting Visions. New Perspectives on Adult Education for Indigenous Peoples. This book contains 14 papers: \Indigenous Peoples and Adult Education: A Growing Challenge\ (Rodolfo Stavenhagen); \Indigenous Peoples: Progress in the International Recognition of Human Rights and the Role of Education\ (Julian Burger); \Adult Learning in the Context of Indigenous Societies\ (Linda King); \Linguistic Rights and the Role of Indigenous Languages in Adult Education\ (Utta von Gleich); \Youth and Adult Education and Literacy for Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia\ (Teresa Valiente Catter); \The Educational Reality of the Indigenous Peoples of the Mesoamerican Region\ (Vilma Duque); \Multiculturalism and Adult Education: The Case of Chile\ (Francisco Vergara E.); \Anangu Teacher Education: An Integrated Adult Education Programme\ (Mary Ann Bin-Sallik, Nan Smibert); \Inuit Experiences in Education and Training Projects\ (Kevin Knight); \Adult Education among Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador\ (Pedro Humberto Ushina S.);… [PDF]

Dufty, David (1980). Living Skills as a Core Curriculum Component. Schools should help students develop daily living skills in addition to basic cognitive skills such as reading, writing, and figuring. Living skills are interpreted to include those skills which help students cope with rapid social change. Skills need to be taught on health and nutrition, safety and first aid, interpersonal relationships, family living, group dynamics, social problems, finance, and human rights. The following four-domain taxonomy demonstrates one way of classifying daily living skills. The domains are: (1) intrapersonal, including being, expressing, relaxing, and making decisions; (2) interpersonal and intercultural, including empathizing, communicating, coping with problems, and mixing with people in other age groups; (3) environmental, including consuming within limits, recycling, and realizing the interdependence of people and nature; and (4) institutional, including knowing and defending one's rights, abiding by the law, and participating politically to create…

Poetter, Thomas S. (2012). Teaching Again: A Professor's Tale of Returning to a Ninth Grade Classroom. IAP – Information Age Publishing, Inc. Teaching Again exposes the very human core of the teaching experience. This book is not just about teaching English/language arts; it is about the heart and soul of the vocation that is teaching. It is also not just about Tom Poetter, the English teacher; it is about every individual who has ever tried to educate, whether that act has taken place in a classroom, a church or synagogue, a museum, or at the kitchen table. Teaching Again brings to life the dance of questions that vie for attention in the mind of a teacher: How do I convince students that they want to learn to what I'm trying to teach? How do I make them understand that this is really actually important to them? And, perhaps most important, how do I get them to like me, and my discipline, in the process? These are the questions that all good teachers ask themselves at the beginning, middle, and end of every single day of their professional lives. Every moment of teaching is a human transaction, and Tom brings us right… [Direct]

(1993). Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (76th, Kansas City, Missouri, August 11-14, 1993). Part VI: Media and Law. The Media and Law section of this collection of conference presentations contains the following 12 papers: "An Analysis of the Role of Insurance, Prepublication Review and Correction Policies in Threatened and Actual Libel Suits" (Elizabeth K. Hansen and Roy L. Moore); "Private Defamation Plaintiffs and Falsity since 'Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps'" (Brian J. Steffen); "'Craft v. Metromedia, Inc.' and Its Social-Legal Progeny" (Jeremy Harris Lipschultz); "Words That Might Get You SLAPPed: Economic Interests vs. the First Amendment's Speech and Petition Clauses" (Paul H. Gates, Jr.); "Journalists' Right to Copy Audio and Video Tapes Presented as Evidence during Trials" (Sherrie L. Wilson); "A Rupture in Copyright" (Frederick Wasser); "Expansion of Communications Freedom by the European Court of Human Rights" (Robert L. Spellman); "The 'Opinion Defense' Is Not Dead: A Survey of Libel Cases Decided… [PDF]

Haynes, Joanna; Murris, Karin (2001). Opening Up Space for Children's Thinking and Dialogue. The British National Curriculum suggests that a range of thinking skills need to be taught. But can children be taught to think? This paper takes the view that all thinking is embedded in a particular context. It gives an account of its author/educators' work with children, draws attention to distinctive features of their approach to teaching, and reports on its impact on children's learning. According to the paper, their approach seeks to foster an environment of greater respect for children's authority as creators of knowledge. It is stated that this is done by emphasizing three major dimensions of teaching for critical and creative thinking: children's moral and human rights to explore and express ideas and beliefs, and adults' obligation to fulfill these rights; creation of an intellectual and emotional space for children's questions and contributions in the classroom; and the need for teachers to become highly skilled in listening to and observing children's dialogue, and in… [PDF]

(1991). The Role of the United States in a Changing World. A Curriculum Unit on Foreign Policy Choices. This 3- to 5-day currriculum unit for secondary students centers around four possible directions for U.S. foreign policy during the 1990s. Designed as a culminating exercise at the end of the year or as an introductory activity to open the semester, this unit, and the possible futures it presents, should be thought of as a vehicle for guiding students through the process involved in developing a reasoned opinion for U.S. foreign policy. By first exploring four clearly defined alternatives and the beliefs underlying them, it is hoped that students will be able to organize their own values and ideas. The four futures act to flesh out four fundamentally different ways of looking at the world, so that students can weigh the merits of each world view. In Future One, the United States has a \good vs. evil\ view of world affairs and believe it has the right and responsibility to act unilaterally to try to help spread democracy and respect for human rights. In Future Two, the United States…

Thompson, Ekundayo J. D., Ed. (1997). Governance and Civic Education. This book contains 13 papers on the socioeconomic development, legal, gender, philosophical, and human rights dimensions of state governance within the context of social, economic, and political processes in Sierra Leone and Kenya. The Political Literacy and Civic Education (PLACE) Project, which was sponsored by the British Overseas Development Administration through the International Community Education Association, is credited with being the book's catalyst. The following papers are included: "Foreword" (S.K. Tororei); "Antecedents of the PLACE Project"; "Conceptualising Civic Education" (S.K. Tororei); "Reflections on Community Education" (Berewa R. Jommo); "Rationale for Political Literacy and Civic Education" (Ekundayo Thompson); "Purpose, Nature, and Scope of Civic Education" (Samuel K. Tororei); "The Development Context of Civic Education" (Ekundayo J.D. Thompson, Margaret Manley); "Civil Society and… [PDF]

Churchill, Ward, Ed. (1991). Critical Issues in Native North America, Volume II. IWGIA Document No. 68. This collection of articles forms the second of two volumes designed to impart to readers some sense of the crucial importance of what is and will be happening to the indigenous peoples of North America. "The Present and Future Status of American Indian Nations," by Robert T. Coulter argues from the perspectives of ideology, power, law, and human rights that the political existence of Native American nations and their governments, in relation to the United States and other governments, is legally and practically tenuous. "Who Will Govern Indian Country?" by Rudolph C. Ryser examines theoretical and practical jurisdictional problems related to the existence of independent sovereign states within another sovereignty and suggests that intergovernmental agreements recognizing tribal governments as the sole governing authority on reservations would eliminate current jurisdictional chaos. "The Political Economy of Radioactive Colonialism," by Ward Churchill…

Gill, Robert Lewis (1976). Justice For Black Americans: Two Hundred Years After Independence. The Afro-American Before the Burger Court, 1969-1976. Negro Educational Review, 27, 3-4, 271-317, Jul-Oct 76. Notes that the Afro-Americans' struggle for equality during the second century has been waged on many fronts: education, jobs, housing, public accommodations, voting rights, and human dignity, among others. (Author)…

Evans, Ronald W., Ed.; Saxe, David Warren, Ed. (1996). Handbook on Teaching Social Issues. NCSS Bulletin 93. This handbook explores the issues-centered curriculum for social studies teaching and how student performance reflects an intellectual capacity to address public issues. The book is divided into 11 parts with essays to address specific aspects of the approach. The foreword, written by Shirley Engle, establishes a context for issues-based curriculum. Essays include: \Defining Issues-Centered Education\ (Ronald W. Evans; Fred M. Newmann; David Warren Saxe); \Building a Rationale for Issues-Centered Education\ (Anna S. Ochoa-Becker); \The Engle-Ochoa Decision Making Model for Citizenship Education\ (Rodney F. Allen); \Using Issues in the Teaching of American History\ (David Warren Saxe); \World History and Issues-Centered Instruction\ (Richard E. Gross); \Issues-Centered Approaches to Teaching Geography Courses\ (A. David Hill; Salvatore J. Natoli); \Issues-Centered Global Education\ (Merry M. Merryfield; Connie S. White); \An Approach to Issues-Oriented Economic Education\ (Beverly J…. [PDF]

Servaes, Jan (1988). Beyond the Four Theories of the Press. An examination of the interrelated philosophical, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of the four normative media theories (authoritarian, Soviet-communist, liberal, and social responsibility) in a societal context based on power relationships leads to four conclusions of a general nature. First, the media in one nation can have different ownership and control structures, as well as several philosophies regarding the function of the media. Second, individual media structures can be included in the above distinction. Third, this approach provides a more appropriate methodology to analyze normative views on communication at the local, regional, national, and international levels. Fourth, as power relationships are looked at in a multidirected and dialectic fashion, this approach does not limit itself to a top-down perspective only. This implies that participatory or user-oriented modes of communication can also be explained and analyzed from this perspective. The importance… [PDF]

Cassara, Beverly Benner (1995). Discussion of International Research Needs in the Field of Adult Education. The international area has grown as a field of graduate research in the past 20 years. Graduate students in adult education need to become more involved in international research both to stay viable as scholars and to be able to effect positive change in the lives of people in developing countries. The four main priorities in research in adult education are as follows: women's education; peace and human rights; environmental education; and literacy. These priorities often overlap and many collaborative research possibilities exist. In searching for grants for adult education research, however, graduate students should be aware that the term \adult education\ is rarely used. For example, the World Bank does not use \adult education,\ but it promotes adult education in many ways–literacy, teacher education, training of all kinds, nonformal education, vocational education, and human resource development. Agencies that fund research are increasingly interested in collaboration among… [PDF]

Huddleston, Barbara (1983). Confronting World Hunger. CARE BRIEFS on Development Issues, n3 Oct. The idea that food should be a universally accepted human right has been the focus of worldwide attention aimed primarily at increasing production at the national level and on reducing price fluctuations in world markets. However, the problem of individual human needs must be simultaneously addressed. The largest number of hungry people live in low-income countries, especially Asia, whose people receive less than 90 percent of their national standards for adequate per capita caloric intake. Similarly, two-thirds of the sub-Saharan African population and a substantial proportion of Latin American and Middle Eastern peoples may also be consuming less than their national caloric standard. Migration further intensifies the problem by leading people threatened by famine to join the ranks of the chronically poor and malnourished in urban areas. Lack of food is not the only cause of malnutrition, with viral diseases resulting from parasite-infested drinking water causing an additional…

Carnie, Fiona, Ed. (1998). Educating on a Human Scale: Visions for a Sustainable World. Proceedings of the Human Scale Education Conference (Oxford, England, September 26, 1998). Human Scale Education's 1998 conference addressed the creation of schools and learning experiences to foster in young people the attitudes and skills to shape a fairer and more sustainable world. "Values and Vision in Business and Education" (Anita Roddick) argues that educational curricula must contain the language and action of social justice, human rights, community economics, sustainability, and ethics if young people are to understand that they can make a difference to their world. "Education for Citizenship" (Richard Pring) maintains that citizenship education must prepare young people not only for an economic future but also for a political one in which they are expected to participate actively within a democracy. It is difficult to encourage children to discuss, debate, and explore issues within the context of the British national curriculum. "The Ecology of Learning" (Satish Kumar) discusses the need for life-centered education as well as… [PDF]

Mohammad Khalil; Paul Prinsloo; Sharon Slade (2024). Learning Analytics as Data Ecology: A Tentative Proposal. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, v36 n1 p154-182. Central to the institutionalization of learning analytics is the need to understand and improve student learning. Frameworks guiding the implementation of learning analytics flow from and perpetuate specific understandings of learning. Crucially, they also provide insights into how learning analytics acknowledges and positions itself as entangled in institutional data ecosystems, and (increasingly) as part of a data ecology driven by a variety of data interests. The success of learning analytics should therefore be understood in terms of data flows and data interests informing the emerging and mutually constitutive interrelationships and interdependencies between different stakeholders, interests and power relations. This article analyses several selected frameworks to determine the extent to which learning analytics understands itself as a "data ecosystem" with dynamic interdependencies and interrelationships (human and non-human). Secondly, as learning analytics… [Direct]

Lacroix, Anne Laurence; Schonveld, Ben; Shoenberg, Cheryl (1996). Rights of the Child in Nigeria. This report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child contains observations of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) concerning the application of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child by the Federation of Nigeria. The report's introduction asserts that the rule by decree of Nigeria's present military regime has serious implications for human rights, and that the most fundamental recommendation of any report seeking to further the interests of the rights of Nigerian children must be a return to democratic civilian rule. The report then presents observations and recommendations in the following areas: (1) the definition of a child; (2) criminal responsibility; (3) the practice of torture; (4) the use of corporal punishment as a punitive measure; (5) physical chastisement of the child in the home; (6) punishment on a gender discriminatory basis; (7) death penalty and life imprisonment; (8) summary execution; (9) arrest and detention; (10) special… [PDF]

Ohrn, Deborah Gore, Ed. (1993). Iowa Women of Achievement. Goldfinch, Iowa History for Young People, v15 n2 Win. This issue of the Goldfinch highlights some of Iowa's 20th century women of achievement. These women have devoted their lives to working for human rights, education, equality, and individual rights. They come from the worlds of politics, art, music, education, sports, business, entertainment, and social work. They represent Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and European Americans. The first woman featured is Carrie Chapman Catt, who served for 51 years as an officer in either a state or national group supporting women's suffrage. Seven of those years she was president of the largest national group, the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The next woman highlighted is Edna Williams Griffin, a black woman who dedicated much of her life to civil rights and peace organizations. The third article tells of Cora Bussey Hillis and her work to support children's rights. The fourth woman recognized is Pauline Humphrey, the first black woman to own and operate… [PDF]

Fernandez, Silvia Rodriguez (2001). Rights of the Child in Guatemala. This report to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child contains observations of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) concerning the application of the Convention by Guatemala. The report's introductory summary asserts that the end of armed conflict in Guatemala and the establishment of a peace process coupled with other government regulations has led to conditions in which it may be possible to strengthen legal instruments for protecting human rights and improve living conditions for Guatemalan children. The report presents observations and recommendations in the following areas: (1) definition of a child; (2) child prostitution and child trafficking; (3) torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; (4) street children; and (5) children in conflict with the law. The report's conclusion maintains that although Guatemala has made efforts to protect children's rights, those efforts are not as effective as they could have been had the… [PDF]

Hartell, C. G.; Maile, S. (2004). HIV/AIDS and Education: A Study on How a Selection of School Governing Bodies in Mpumalanga Understand, Respond to and Implement Legislation and Policies on HIV/AIDS. International Journal of Educational Development, v24 n2 p183-199 Mar. Very little research has been done in South Africa on HIV/AIDS and education. This article is a small attempt to plug the gap. The purpose of the research is to investigate the legal and policy provisions and implications regarding HIV/AIDS for rural and township schools in the Mpumalanga district of South Africa. It seeks to answer three questions: (1) What is the status of policy and legislation on HIV/AIDS and Education in South Africa? (2) How do schools understand, respond to and manage issues of law and policy regarding HIV/AIDS? (3) What are the possible areas of conflict between legal and policy provisions and educational practices and behaviours? After examining the different laws relating to HIV/AIDS and education in South Africa a case study approach is used to explore the research questions in a number of rural and township schools. The findings highlighted a general ignorance of basic human rights issues, the right to confidentiality, the right to security from… [Direct]

Pulver, Glen C. (1995). Elements of a Sustainable Rural Policy. If a new and effective rural policy is to be crafted, policymakers must realize that rural America has changed a great deal in recent years. To be sustainable, rural policy must be flexible enough to accommodate continuing changes in global structure; be sufficiently targeted to address the unique concerns found in diverse rural situations; provide for long-term improvement in human living standards through natural resource management, technological innovation, and institutional change; and attract political support from both rural and urban residents. This will require more active participation and cooperation in policy formulation by citizens of the wider rural community; increased interaction between rural and urban policymakers; and more holistic consideration of investments in production, ecological, and institutional innovation. Farmers, timber workers, and miners will need to seek common ground and build alliances with others who have broader agendas (rural developers,… [PDF]

Friedman, Sara Ann (1994). Creating Violence-Free Families: A Symposium Summary Report (New York, New York, May 23-25, 1994). Noting that family violence is a global and pernicious problem, this report summarizes a symposium–sponsored by the Baha'i International Community's office for the Advancement of Women, in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women–on meeting the challenge of and raising public awareness about the scope and seriousness of family violence. Building on a diversity of cultures, professions, experiences, and perspectives, participants proposed that effective efforts to create violence-free families must be designed on the basis of including the whole family and active participation of all social sectors. The report elaborates the following conclusions, which emerged in consensus from the symposium: (1) family violence must be publicly acknowledged as a problem; (2) the social and economic costs of family violence are incalculable; (3) family violence is a human development issue; (4) family violence is a human… [PDF]

Becker, James (1983). Global Studies Bibliography. Over 80 publications, most of which were published between 1975 and 1983, are listed in this annotated bibliography of books, articles, bulletins, and sources of instructional materials. Most of the items listed in this bibliography are intended to give the reader a general overview of global studies or to provide examples of the variety of materials available to teachers and other educators who wish to improve or expand the international/global dimensions of their programs and courses. The first section, "Background Reading," lists a number of publications that emphasize the increasing influence of transnational activities in human affairs and offers evidence of the universality of many of today's political, social, and environmental problems. Several of the books spell out educational implications of the emergence of a global age. Section II, "Articles, Journals, and Bulletins," includes position statements, reports, and documents in which the authors make the…

Gonzalez, Nora M. (2023). Wisdom and Leadership: An Exploratory Study on Accelerating the Cultivation of Wisdom. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, California Baptist University. Wisdom and leadership should go hand in hand. Both are concerned with human flourishing. Leadership is about making the right things happen the right way for the good of the collective. Discerning and doing the right things ultimately requires wisdom. While wisdom is esteemed as the highest intellectual and moral virtue, few studies explore the relationship between wisdom and leadership, especially how leaders understand and acquire wisdom. The three guiding questions for this study were: 1. Would higher education leaders who participate in a wisdom educational intervention experience an increase in their self-reported wisdom scores? 2. Do years of leadership experience moderate leaders' self-reported wisdom scores? and 3. Do faith, gender, years of leadership experience, and specialty/career field affect self-reported wisdom scores? A pretest-posttest control-group design was utilized using Ardelt's abbreviated Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale (3D-WS-12). This study explored the… [Direct]

Billings, Linda (2006). To the Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Culture, Law, and Ethics in Space-Faring Societies. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, v26 n5 p430-437. The U.S. civilian space program is focused on planning for a new round of human missions to the Moon and, later, perhaps, to Mars. These plans are intended to realize a \vision\ for exploration articulated by President George W. Bush. It is important to examine this \vision\ in the broader context of 21st-century space exploration, which is a truly global enterprise. Questions to be addressed include the following: How will extending human presence into the solar system affect society and culture on Earth? What legal, ethical, and other value systems should govern human settlements and other activities in space? Do humans have rights to exploit extraterrestrial resources and alter extraterrestrial environments? Does space exploration need reinvention to meet social needs? This article describes the current environment for space policy making and a framework of space law, ethics, and culture within which these questions can be considered. (Contains 17 notes.)… [Direct]

Lorenz Weise (2025). Payoff Designs in Post-Decision Wagering: A Systematic Review. Metacognition and Learning, v20 n1 Article 6. Humans often have an intuitive sense of whether they made the right decision or not — our sense of confidence. In studies on metacognitive faculties, confidence is most often assessed explicitly, by asking participants how confident they are in their response being correct. While we can explicitly report our confidence, implicit methods of assessing it, such as post-decision wagering (PDW), can potentially hold many advantages over explicit reports, for example by offering a financial incentive to estimate and report confidence accurately. In PDW, a participant can place a wager on having responded correctly, with high wagers indicative of confidence. A central aspect of PDW procedures is the payoff scheme — the system of wins and losses following wagers after correct and incorrect decisions. A variety of different payoff schemes are used throughout the literature, with consequences for participants' interpretation of the task, wagering responses and strategies, and the… [Direct]

Banbapuy Ganambarr; Bawaka Country; Djawundil Maymuru; Kate Lloyd; Laklak Burarrwanga; Lara Daley; Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs; Ritjilili Ganambarr; Sandie Suchet-Pearson; Sarah Wright (2023). Keepers of the Flame: Songspirals Are a University for Us. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, v39 n3 p279-292. "Songspirals are a university for us, they are a map of understandings" (Gay'wu Group of Women, 2019, p. 33). This paper is authored by Bawaka Country, acknowledging Country's ability to teach and share. Country is homeland and place. Country is everything and the relationships that bring everything to life. Country is knowledge. This paper is shaped and enabled by songspirals. Songspirals are sung and cried by Yolnu people in north east Arnhem Land, Australia, to awaken Country, to make and remake the life-giving connections between people and place. The Gon-gurtha songspiral leads this paper, showing us how a Yolnu Country-led pedagogy centres Country's active agency by learning through, with, and as Country. This pedagogy shares with us the ongoing connections within and between generations to ensure that knowledge remains strong and that sharing is done the right way, according to Yolnu Rom, Law/Lore. This learning is predicated on relationality and responsibility. It… [Direct]

Flekkoy, M. G. (1993). Children's Rights. Reflections on and Consequences of the Use of Developmental Psychology in Working for the Interests of Children. The Norwegian Ombudsman for Children: A Practical Experience. Since the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, nations are obligated to submit regular reports to the international Expert Committee, which will require monitoring conditions for children. This study discusses the Norwegian Ombudsman for Children as a useful source of experience for other countries. Chapter 1 presents those trends in legal rights, child psychology, human rights, and public opinion that converged in the 1950s and 1960s to create an international concern for children's rights. Chapter 2 shows how in the last 10 to 15 years children have been seen as competent, active subjects, instead of passive objects. Chapter 3 describes developments in Norway that led to the establishment in 1981 of the Ombudsman for Children. Chapters 4 and 5 describe the establishment of and changes in the Ombudsman, its practical work, how cases were handled, and those elements and issues of developmental psychology that were most helpful in its work. Chapter 6 evaluates… [PDF]