Title:
Early childhood development programmes and children’s rights
Authors:
Arnold, C.
Year:
2001
Serial number:
98
Journal:
Early Childhood Matters
Pages:
36
-
39
ISSN:
1387-9553
Language:
eng
Subject:
Culture, Society and Religion
Keywords:
children
,
human rights
,
education
Abstract:
The author is Regional Child Development Adviser (Asia) for Save the Children (USA and Norway). In this article she asserts the centrality of children’s rights – and therefore the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) – to early childhood development (ECD) and its programming. She therefore argues strongly for holistic ECD programming and against focusing solely on basic education, a restriction that would eliminate much of the potential of ECD programmes to directly support the aims and spirit of the CRC. Her article also reflects on what else the ECD community could and should be doing to ensure that the CRC does indeed help to shape programming for young children. To provide a practical example of what rights oriented ECD programming can mean, she surveys a qualitative study that was carried out in four villages in Nepal to discover how parents contribute to ensuring that the rights of their children are met.
Organization:
Bernard van Leer Foundation
Country:
Nepal
Region:
South Asia
Category:
Research
Right:
© 2001 Bernard van Leer Foundation
Document type:
E-article
File:
124528.pdf