Developing outcomes for educational services: a children’s rights‐based approach

Autor: Lesley McEvoy, Laura Lundy
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Effective Education. 1:43-60
ISSN: 1941-5540
1941-5532
DOI: 10.1080/19415530903044050
Popis: This article provides a rationale for and insight into an explicit children’s rights‐based approach to the identification of outcomes for proposed educational interventions. It presents a critical reflection on a research project which sought to integrate international children’s rights standards into the design of services through a children’s rights audit of potential outcomes and the meaningful engagement of children in the research and service design processes. While children are involved increasingly as co‐researchers in qualitative studies, it is less common for this to occur in quantitative studies. This article offers some additional insight into children’s participation in the interpretation of data from a large‐scale baseline survey. The article concludes with an argument that international children’s rights law provides not just a legal imperative but also a comprehensive framework with which to assert the case for increased recognition of children as salient stakeholders in all aspects of serv...
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