Reading material

A series of resources that the student teacher must study in this session and a series of additional resources for further study.

Compulsory reading list

  1. Engdahl, Ι. & Losso, Μ. (2019). Human Rights for Children and Youth: Sociocultural Differentiation, Resistance and Unity. Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, 24, 11-34. DOI: 10.1108/S1537-466120190000024002
  2.  Quennerstedt, A. (2016). Young children's enactments of human rights in early childhood education, International Journal of Early Years Education, 24(1), 5-18, DOI: 10.1080/09669760.2015.1096238
  3. Quennerstedt, A., and M. Quennerstedt. 2014. “Researching Children's Rights in Education: Sociology of Childhood Encountering Educational Theory.” British Journal of Sociology of Education 35 (1): 115–132. doi:10.1080/01425692.2013.783962.

List for further reading

  1. Brantefors, L., & Thelander, N. (2017). Teaching and Learning Traditions in Children’s Human Rights: Curriculum Emphases in Theory and Practice. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 25, 456-471.
  2. Edelstein, W. & Krettenauer, T. (2014). Citizenship and democracy education in a diverse Europe. Handbook of Moral and Character Education, pp. 386-400. DOI: 10.4324/9780203114896
  3. Garratt, D. (2000). Democratic citizenship in the curriculum: Some problems and possibilities. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 8 (3), pp. 323-346. DOI: 10.1080/14681360000200094
  4. Gray, C. (2016). The Ying and the Yang of democracy in action: tackling children's rights in 2016, International Journal of Early Years Education, 24(1), 1-4, DOI: 10.1080/09669760.2016.1140400
  5. Maitles, H. & Gilchrist, I. (2006). “Never Too Young To Learn Democracy!: A Case Study Of A Democratic Approach To Learning In A Religious And Moral Education Secondary Class In The West Of Scotland”, Educational Review, 58(1), pp.67-85.