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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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