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Volume 15 Issue 1, March 2025

Volume 15 Issue 1, March 2025

Themed Issue: Contemporary Challenges for Children’s Rights, Wellbeing, Justice and Equity: Policy, Community Activism and Pedagogy

  • Guest Editor: Louise Gwenneth Phillips
  • Guest Editor: Jenny Ritchie

Editorial

Free accessEditorialFirst published January 2, 2025pp. 3–8

Articles

  • Eva Johansson
  • Anette Emilson
  • Johanna Einarsdottir
  • Anna-Maija Puroila
  • Barbara Piskur
Abstract
This study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of belonging in early educational institutions based on key findings developed within the international project Politics of belonging: promoting children’s inclusion in educational settings across ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published August 14, 2024pp. 9–24
  • Bronwyn Elisabeth Wood
  • Judith Loveridge
Abstract
Since the inception of UNCRC, a considerable body of scholarship has developed to consider what the rights of children are and how they can be enacted in everyday life. In this paper we re-visit the framing of children and young people and their rights, ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published November 8, 2024pp. 25–37
  • Peng Xu
  • Jenny Ritchie
Abstract
As an entitlement to rights, well-being and equity, young children’s citizenship lays the foundation for a democratic, just and sustainable world. This article interrogates the discursive constructions of ‘citizenship’ within recent early childhood ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published January 4, 2025pp. 38–50
  • Carol Mutch
Abstract
In times of disasters and adversity, children are among the most vulnerable. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) highlights the importance of protecting children from harm and making decisions in their best interests—matters ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published August 15, 2024pp. 51–71
  • Iris Duhn
Abstract
This article delves into the intricate relationship between children’s rights and the broader landscape of human and more-than-human rights in times of planetary pluri-crises. While acknowledging the historical significance of the United Nation adoption ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published March 26, 2024pp. 72–83
  • Aleasa Kermode
  • Louise Gwenneth Phillips
Abstract
Through a new materialist inquiry, as a bounded review, we cartographically and diffractively read/plot media reports about genderdiverse, transgender and non-binary (GDTNB) students in education in Australia. We utilise diffractive analysis to explore ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published January 17, 2025pp. 84–114
  • Govind Subedi
  • Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
  • Vinay Jha
Abstract
The article considers street-connected children and their right to play. By drawing on a qualitative case study involving interviews and focus groups with NGO workers and children who lived on the streets in the Kathmandu valley, this article explores ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published November 8, 2024pp. 115–129

Colloquium

  • Md. Shabbir Ahmed
  • Tahmid Tajwar
  • Rubaya Ajmir
Abstract
Child labor is a sobering reality in a modern society, when it has been practiced over numerous decades and has led to such inhumane consequences for children. Due to poverty, poor family conditions, socio-economic fragility, phenomena like child labor ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published February 19, 2025pp. 130–140
Free accessOtherFirst published March 13, 2025pp. 141