Bridging differences to build children's rights education in primary schools across continents


Kathleen Manion, Royal Roads University

Drawing on the “knowledges of diverse contexts”, this presentation explores how education that includes children’s rights and responsibilities can help children develop the tools needed to bring forth the “solutions for today, and sustain systems of tomorrow". The presentation reflects on mid-project findings from a 5-year (2022-2027) comparative, participatory action research child rights education project in Uganda and Canada where the researchers and educators have worked with children, parents, community members and child rights NGOs to foster inter-country dialogue and develop contextually and culturally derived approaches to impactful child rights education in primary school curriculum.

Non-presenting author: Shelley Jones, Royal Roads University

This paper will be presented at the following session: