Hall Children’s Human Rights and Public Schooling in the United States

2013
ISBN: 978-94-6209-197-9
Verlag: Sense Publishers
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 5, 211 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action

Promotion Text for Children’s Human Rights and Public Schooling in the United States
Julia Hall
The United States tends to portray itself as a human rights leader. However, human rights concerns are confronted everyday by people in this democracy, including children. The purpose of this volume is to bring attention to the fact that against the backdrop of neoliberal expansion, serious human rights violations are taking place among children everywhere, including in the US. The daily struggles among groups of school children in the US are specifically considered here, such as children who are sorted by race, homeless children, transient children, child refugees, children as targeted by human traffickers, and/or child migrant workers. As the economy continues to constrict, more and more young people find themselves struggling to grow up on these razor thin margins of survival. Given current economic arrangements, such margins are widening. The definition of “children’s human rights” as understood in this analysis is taken directly from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [CRC]. Here emphasis is placed on ways in which the CRC could be used to serve more effectively the needs of the most vulnerable populations of school-age children in the US and elsewhere. Public schools could be the very place where children come to understand they have rights. Unfortunately, many children do not get this information. Instead the protections stated in the CRC and the realities of the lives of so many children are often worlds apart. This volume sets out to be a part of changing this.

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Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Julia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1, INTRODUCTIONl; School Children in Serious Need of Rights; SCHOOL CHILDREN AS VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; CHAPTER 2; Homeless Children in the United States: Dispossession and Rights Foreclosed; CHAPTER 3; From Mandalay to Nickel City: Exploring the Changing Identities and Struggles of Karen Burmese Youth; CHAPTER 4; Burundi Refugee Students in Rural Southern Appalachia: On the Fast Track to Special Education; CHAPTER 5; Taking Toll: The Impact of Sexual and Gender Harassment on the Lives of Middle and High School Students; CHAPTER 6; Breaking the Code: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking and School Children; CHAPTER 7; Selling the Services: Military Recruiting and Education Policy; CHAPTER 8; Representing Failure: The Depiction of Low-Income, Mexican-American Students in School-Based Program Evaluation; CHAPTER 9; The Game Plan: How the Promise of US Athletic Scholarships Shapes the Education of Black Canadian Youth; CHAPTER 10; Academically Invulnerable and Resilient Hispanic Migrant Children; CHAPTER 11; Funding the Right to Equal Educational Opportunity: An Overview and Call to Follow the Money.