17 October 2010

The Children's Rights and the School Education!

The quality of relationships among the children and their community,school and guardians including teachers is of paramount importance.Teachers should be be facilitors and guides rather than dictactors of facts.
The school must reach out children left on the margins of education system and society, for example girls,ethnic minorities child labourers ,the poor ,the disabled ,aids orphans etc.
The conventions on the rights of the child: Adopted the General Assembly of UN on 20 November 1989 generally define the child as any human being under the age of 18 unless an earlier age of majority is recognised by country's law.
Children's rights are what children are allowed to do ,what responsible people for children have to do to make sure they are happy healthy and safe.
These are the percieved human rights of the children with particular attention to rights of special protection and care afforded to young children including their rights to association with their biological parents ,human dignity as wel as basic needs for food ,universal state paid education,health care and criminal laws appropriate for the age and development of the child.
Rights are those things whose possession is of very importance to their owners.
Convention is an agreement between countries to obey laws.
Convention on the Rights of the Child(CRC or UNCRC)
An international convention or agreement setting out the civil,political ,social and cultural rigths of children.
Nations that ractify (agree to obey) are bound to it by international law.
The compliance is monitored the UN committee on the rights of the child which is composed of members from country member states.
The governments of countries that have ractified the convention are required to report to and appear before the UN committee on the right of the child periodically to be examined on their progress with regards to the advancement of implementation of the conventions anf the status of child's rights in their country.
As of November 2009 ,194 countries have ractified the treat including every member of UN except USA and Somalia.Somalia intends to ractify it in the near future.
The conventions on the rights of children was written in 1989 and came into force in 1990.All countries of the world try to make the law work.The real work of meeting the needs of children to be done in homes,classrooms,schools,communities ,villages ,towns and cities all states around the world.
This require a huge commitments from government and from all parts of societies like teachers,youth activists,civil leaders ,government agencies ,NGOs and privatate organisations.
The convention deals with the child's specific needs and rights. Therefore it has several foundation principles that underpin all development of childern's rights.
The Foundation Principles of the Conventions
This include non discrimination ,best interests of the child ,right to survival and development views of the child.
Non discrimination (Article 2)
It means that all children have the same right to develop their potential all children in all situations and all the time everywhere.
The Best interest of the child(Article 3)
It must be a primary consideration in all actions and decisions concerning child and must be used to resolve confusion between different rights.
The Right to Survival and Development (Article 6)
It under scores the vital importance of ensuring access to basic services and to equity of opportunity for children to achieve their full development.
The views of the Child(Article 12)
It means that the voice of the children must be heard and respected in all matters concerning their rights. States that's government ,parents,schools,teachers and so many ,must promote children's active free and meaningful participation in decision making that affects them.
Children's Rights and their Implications to the School.
Its civil and political rights ,these include right to :
•a name
•nationality
•freedom of expression and association
•protection from torture and maltreatment
Economic Rights
Children should benefit from social security or social welfare.Protection from exploitation and work in all work that interferes with the child's education is not acceptable.
Social Rights
Right to health care and access to medical services.In Zimbabwe for example all children under five years go for post natal care and to local clinics and hospitals to receive free madications.Special care for handicapped and protection from sexrual exploitation.
Cultural Rights
Every child has right to:
♦education
♦recreation and leisure
♦participation in cultural activities.
♦children's language and culture should be protected ,especially minority groups.
Survival Rights
This include right to good nutrition ,access to clean water and environment which facilitates the right to survive.
Development Rights
The freedom of thought and religion ,in Zimbabwe primary schools multi-faith approach is strongly encouraged in the teaching of Religious and Moral Education (RME) and other social sciences.
The right to access information.
Protection Rights
Protection from all kinds of exploitation ,cruelity ,abuses etc.
Special protection for the handicapped ,refugees etc.
Special need education is required.
Participation Rights
The freedom of expression is a bsic human and birth right.The right to play an active role in the society ,community through association and other activities.

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