21 articles in this issue
Tara Collins, Mona Paré
Violence is a significant issue in Canadian schools that includes a wide spectrum of actions among students commonly understood as “bullying”. Civil society is responding to this challenge in various ways. This paper identifies types of actors in civil so... see more
Heather Kathleen Manion, Shelley Jones
Children have the right to a voice, to education and to education about their rights, as outlined in Article 12 and Article 29 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Child rights-based education can support children to be empowered w... see more
Jacqueline P. Leighton
In the research conducted since the inception of the CRC, relatively little theoretically-driven psychological work has been devoted to exploring the issue of children’s rights in classrooms and schools (Urinboyev, Wickenberg, & Leo, 2016). The purpose of... see more
Omid Milani
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Ildiko Gabriella Kovács
This paper describes a Children’s Right to the City initiative of a Canadian provincial non-profit organization. The program and its underlying Participatory Planning Pedagogy (PPP) and curriculum follow a student-led and rights-based approach that builds... see more
Joanna Harris
Education is a basic human right, critical to the social and economic well-being of children and youth. It is so fundamental to a child’s well-being that Ontario courts have repeatedly recognized that educational neglect is a stand-alone child protection ... see more
Aurelia Di Santo, Katie-Jay Scott
This paper presents an early childhood education model that upholds a child’s right to education in one of the world's most vulnerable and forgotten communities: a refugee camp. iACT, a non-governmental organization, works directly with refugee beneficiar... see more
Manuela Clément-Frencia
Nombreuses sont les filles dans le monde qui souhaitent aller à l’école et réaliser leurs rêves. Pourtant, 263 millions d’enfants, d’adolescents et de jeunes à travers le monde – soit un sur cinq – ne sont pas scolarisés (UNESCO, 2018). Bien que l’écart s... see more
Warda Batool, Marina Apostolopoulos, Melissa Bagirakandi, Nichola Nonis Jayawardena, Justine Lee
AbstractThe Shaking the Movers: Early Childhood (STM: EC) event was held at Ryerson University and was the first to invite young children to participate in learning about and discussing their inherent rights. In this article, five graduate students draw o... see more
Oscar Kaisary
Ottawa, Ontario, age 7
Hazel Currah
Sabrina Leung-Tuk
Natalia Coreau
Karissa Hazelwood
Raven Griffin, Sarah Ham
This interview with the Hon. Landon Pearson was held in the Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the study of Childhood and Children’s Rights on the Carleton University campus. Virginia Caputo, the Director of the Centre, was present, alongside two research... see more
Andrea Korajlija
In this paper, I examine the regulatory deficiencies surrounding children’s online privacy. Specifically, I assess how the passive collection of children’s information through their parents is permitted under the current legislation. I examine two online ... see more
Meighan Mantei
Through a rights based framework that recognizes and advocates for children’s right to play at school, this paper will show how the students, staff and community of Kitchener elementary school created their playground revitalization project to rethink and... see more
Hon. Landon Pearson
Jean-Frédéric Hübsch
In Ontario, students facing school discipline are not parties to their own suspension and expulsion proceedings. As in other areas of law, children in education law are treated as not having sufficient capacity to advance their own interests and must rely... see more
Bree Akesson, Dena Badawi, Abdelfettah Elkchirid
Ongoing since 2011, the conflict in Syria is considered to be one of the largest humanitarian crises in modern history. With a large number of Syrian families fleeing the war to resettle in neighboring Lebanon, Lebanon’s education system has become overwh... see more