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Jag vill också vara med : den svenska skollagens implementering av vuxnas och barns mänskliga rättigheter

Erlandsson, Isabell LU (2011) MRSK30 20102
Human Rights Studies
Abstract
This essay analyses whether agency affects adults and children’s human rights in the law of Swedish elementary school and educational system. It’s done by an analysis of relevant human rights legislative that is aimed to be implemented in the educational system and the Swedish school law. Human rights also need to meet the right to agency set forth in the convention on the rights of the child, article 12. Right to agency provides children with a right to be listened to and respected as equal to adults. The school law it self are also analyzed for the purpose of finding out if it fulfils the international human rights conventions and declarations. The analyse prove similarities in rights for adults and children, but a difference in the... (More)
This essay analyses whether agency affects adults and children’s human rights in the law of Swedish elementary school and educational system. It’s done by an analysis of relevant human rights legislative that is aimed to be implemented in the educational system and the Swedish school law. Human rights also need to meet the right to agency set forth in the convention on the rights of the child, article 12. Right to agency provides children with a right to be listened to and respected as equal to adults. The school law it self are also analyzed for the purpose of finding out if it fulfils the international human rights conventions and declarations. The analyse prove similarities in rights for adults and children, but a difference in the theoretical standpoint which the rights are implemented by in the educational system. Adults have the right to agency while children are seen as an object rather than an agent. For children this leads to a non-realisation of their rights as agents, that’s in there own right to participate in the society as a full worthy citizen. (Less)
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  abstract     = {{This essay analyses whether agency affects adults and children’s human rights in the law of Swedish elementary school and educational system. It’s done by an analysis of relevant human rights legislative that is aimed to be implemented in the educational system and the Swedish school law. Human rights also need to meet the right to agency set forth in the convention on the rights of the child, article 12. Right to agency provides children with a right to be listened to and respected as equal to adults. The school law it self are also analyzed for the purpose of finding out if it fulfils the international human rights conventions and declarations. The analyse prove similarities in rights for adults and children, but a difference in the theoretical standpoint which the rights are implemented by in the educational system. Adults have the right to agency while children are seen as an object rather than an agent. For children this leads to a non-realisation of their rights as agents, that’s in there own right to participate in the society as a full worthy citizen.}},
  author       = {{Erlandsson, Isabell}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Jag vill också vara med : den svenska skollagens implementering av vuxnas och barns mänskliga rättigheter}},
  year         = {{2011}},
}