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dc.contributor.authorBorgen, Jorunn Spord
dc.contributor.authorØdegaard, Elin Eriksen
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-02T12:08:41Z
dc.date.available2023-10-02T12:08:41Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractGlobal trends in education are accompanied by both paradoxes and provocations. The paradoxes constitute inherent educational dilemmas, such as the paradox of institutional education, wherein social rules and mandatory tasks are played out as a means of imparting lessons about freedom and independence. Our argument in this chapter is that we should reconsider the ‘future’ of planned and controlled education and instead become open to the perceptions of two groups that are at the forefront of educational futures – namely, children and young people and various experts on children and childhood. They meet face to face or indirectly on a daily basis in various educational contexts, and their experiences are interdependent and often paradoxical. This chapter explores possible sustainable futures in education as articulated by children, youth and child experts and highlights several qualities that sustainable futures will require, in relation to UNCRC article 28; children’s right to education and article 29; that education must develop every child’s personality,talents and abilities to the full.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBorgen JS, Ødegaard EE: Global Paradoxes and Provocations in Education: Exploring Sustainable Futures for Children and Youth. In: Ødegaard EE, Borgen JS. Childhood Cultures in Transformation 30 Years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Action towards Sustainability , 2021. Brill|Sense p. 274-297en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1850661
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/9789004445666_014
dc.identifier.isbn978-90-04-44566-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/31363
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrillen_US
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 275575en_US
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleGlobal Paradoxes and Provocations in Education: Exploring Sustainable Futures for Children and Youthen_US
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