Children as Growing Rights Subjects – The Significance of Teachers’ Actions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12192138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Isenström (0000-0002-5157-3322, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 258-287 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Children s Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0927-5568 • E-ISSN: 1571-8182 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15718182-02802012 |
| OpenAlex | W3014198412 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 8 |
The overarching ambition of this paper is to explore how teachers’ actions shape children’s growth as rights-subjects. This is done by addressing the question: which rights-subjects are privileged for children by teachers’ different rights-teaching mentalities? The paper draws on observation and interview data from fieldwork in three Year 1 classes in Swedish primary schools. Theoretically framed by a Foucauldian governmentality perspective, rights-learning situations were analysed through the lens of teachers’ rights-teaching mentalities and governing techniques. The findings show how teachers’ different actions privilege different rights-subjects for the children, and demonstrate how the teachers’ actions in everyday interaction in the classroom play a significant role in this process. It is argued that rights-learning, and growing as a rights-subject, does not primarily happen in designated children’s human rights events at school, but rather occurs continuously, day after day, in ordinary school practice
Fundamental rights · Governmentality · Human rights · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Sociology · Subject (documents · Children's Rights and Participation · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Law · Peace and Human Rights Education · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |