Rannsóknir á Menntavísindasviði

Verkefnið felst í greiningu á kennaramenntun í þremur samstarfslöndum með tilliti til réttinda barna og lýðræðislegrar borgaravitundar. Unnið verður reglulega með nemendum og fræðafólki í námslotum yfir verkefnatímabilið, með það að markmiði að efla skilning á gildi og mikilvægi réttindamiðaðrar nálgunar í námi ungra barna. Jafnframt verður þróað kennsluefni sem ætlað er að styðja við hæfni verðandi leikskólakennara, grunnskólakennara á yngsta stigi og háskólakennara til að innleiða og efla réttindamiðaða nálgun í starfi.

In English:

Teachers’ education – advocating for children’s rights (TEACH-RIGHT)

Objectives:

• Exploring how children’s rights and a rights-based education approach is provided for in initial early childhood education teacher training across the three partner countries.
• Increase the competencies of students to support a rights-based education approach.
• Enhance the competencies of academic staff to underpin their teaching of students from a children’s rights-based perspective. Develop resources to support implementation of a rights-based education approach in practice.

Implementation:

• Analyses of existing teacher training across the three partner countries focused on children’s rights and democratic citizenship.
• Developing training resources to support prospective ECEC teachers and HE teachers competencies in facilitating and providing rights-based approach in ECE settings.
• Training sessions for students and academic staff.
• Research activities (surveys, focus groups, literature review).
• Dissemination activities (conferences, publication, social-media presence).

Results:

• Analyses of the current status of teacher education programmes across the three countries in relation to children’s rights.
• Raised awareness of the value and importance of taking a rights-based approach to teaching and learning.
• Increased competencies of students and academic staff
• Developed resources for implementation of a rights-based education approach in practice.
• Published reports on existing and future rights-based practices.

Erasmus+ KA220-HED project