EDUCATION CONFERENCE - COMMON PROMISE: CHILDREN'S HUMAN RIGHTS IN EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN
ABOUT HOW CHILDREN'S RIGHTS AND CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S EXPERIENCES AND ADVICE ABOUT THE SYSTEMS THEY ENCOUNTER CAN BE SECURED IN EDUCATION FOR FUTURE PROFESSIONALS IN KINDERGARTEN , SCHOOL, HEALTH CARE, CHILD PROTECTION AND POLICE.
TARGET GROUP: NATIONAL AUTHORITIES, STAFF AND STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED EDUCATION PROGRAMS, PUBLISHERS, knowledge centre AND INTEREST ORGANIZATIONS.
March 18 at 10-15 at the National Theater Conference Center
A collaboration between USN, NTNU and Changefactory knowledge centre
Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children have the right to have their say and to be heard both at the system level and in individual cases. At the system level, this means in the preparation of guidelines, law development, plans and other national and regional work that affects children and young people. In 2020-21, 4 unanimous decisions were made in the Storting to ensure that the health legislation, the Education Act, the Kindergarten Act, the Child Welfare Act, the Children Act, the Procedural Act and the Public Administration Act are in line with children's right to information, decisions for the child's right to privacy.
In order for students who will work with children to be well equipped to collaborate with children and young people in their work, they need to systematically know what children themselves think are good ways to be met in the various systems that exist for them. Knowledge from children, in research and investigations, can be used in lectures, syllabuses, assignments, exams and practice. They also need to know the rights that all children have, how they should be met, in all actions and decisions that concern them, in meetings with school, kindergarten , health services, support services, police and legal system.
PROGRAM
10.00 Welcome and opening
- Ingvild Marheim Larsen, Vice Rector for Education at USN
- Young people from Changefactory knowledge centre
- Signe Bjotveit (SP), political advisor to the Minister of Research and Higher Education
- Kari-Anne Jønnes (Conservatives) and Lise Selnes (AP), Education and Research Committee in the Norwegian Parliament
10.40 Children have human rights. What procedural rights do children have according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child? And what does knowledge from children say about this?
Experiences and advice from children can be collected both in research and surveys. When many children in many places in the country share experiences and advice about the systems created for them, this becomes important knowledge that Norway needs and is obliged to use. This is children's knowledge of kindergarten , school, support systems, police and judiciary. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child gives children procedural rights that must be ensured before the child's best interests are considered, in all actions and decisions that concern them.
How do procedural rights oblige Norway and the educational institutions?
And how do they relate to the knowledge from children?
Dialogue between lawyers and young people v/ Marie Lindsjørn Nordvik (UiT), Wenche Sørensen (PHS) and professionals
11.15 Pause
11.30 Why must children's procedural rights and the knowledge children themselves have about the systems be lifted?
Knowledge from children and children's rights is now being taught to all professionals in the field of growing up in several big cities.
Why do big cities do this? And what does this have to mean for the educations?
- Kari Henriksen, upbringing director in Tromsø municipality
- Siri Merete Sørensen, municipal director of prevention in Drammen municipality
- Gunnar Toresen, project coordinator «Cooperation with children» in Stavanger municipality
Why do students want this?
Six student democracies have decided to become a children's rights university and request that knowledge from children and children's rights in the process be systematically entered into the educations. Why these decisions?
- Jørgen Valseth, board representative student council NTNU
- Marie Nørvåg, responsible for trade union policy for the student organization UiA
in dialogue with young people
How to ensure that everyone who meets children has a practice based on the procedural rights the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child provides children and knowledge from children?
- Sunniva Whittaker, chairman of the board of UHR and rector of UiA
- Isak Grov Diesen, responsible for trade union policy for the student parliament OsloMet
- Inga Marte Thorkildsen, former Minister of Children and former City Councilor in Oslo
- Kari Henriksen, upbringing director in Tromsø municipality
12.30 Lunch
13.00 How to include knowledge from children as an equal part of the knowledge base in professional education? And how to ensure that students receive training in how to use children's procedural rights? How to make it happen, on the syllabus and in the teaching?
Several students' democratic bodies now decide that knowledge from children and children's procedural rights must be raised. Several of the guidelines for the educations require that knowledge from children be included in the curriculum and teaching. Why is it important for students? What experiences do the teachers have?
Dialogues between teachers and students on courses for:
Child welfare, foster care, social and psychosocial work: Roar Sundby (NTNU), Vegard Snartland (USN), Betina Haug Olson (HiVolda)
kindergarten , teacher, specialist: Elisabeth Walsøe (DMMH), Siv Gamlem (HiVolda) Marit Uthus (NTNU)
Medicine, dentistry, psychology, nursing: Anne Rønneberg (UiO), Kjersti Lillevoll (UiT), Nina Egeland (UiS), Ann-Karin Valle (Oslomet)
14.30 Wishing for the way forward
v / repr from national authorities, universities and young people
15.00 Well home
Do you have any questions? anika@Changefactory.no