Content analysis on 4th grade's primary language school textbooks concerning the promotion on Children's Rights and the sensitization of students towards them
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This paper discusses the prevalence and promotion of Children's Rights, guided by the articles of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child on in-use school textbooks of primary language in 4th grade. The survey investigates the promotion of Children's Rights in these school textbooks -including teacher’s book- in order to inform and make students aware of their guaranteed rights. The method used is the quantitative content analysis in conjunction with the hermeneutic method given by the qualitative content analysis. The analysis points out that not all of the Children’s Rights are presented largely in the studied textbooks. Specifically, 24 of the 54 articles contained in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child are not prevalent at all. Furthermore, it was found that 6 articles appear much more often than the other ones. Additionally, in the teacher's book, only 12 of the 54 articles of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child emerged. In conclusion, we highlight the lack of students’ information and motivation through the influence of the textbooks concerning the awareness of their rights as long as the unequal distribution of the articles of the International Convention in the textbooks. Finally, we propose activities that enhance the promotion of Children's Rights in textbooks of primary language in 4th grade and sensitize students regarding them.
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Στεφανοπούλου (Stefanopoulou) Σ. (Sofia), Τσατήρη (Tsatiri) Μ. (Maria), & Κουμζής (Koumzis) Ι. (Ioannis). (2017). Content analysis on 4th grade’s primary language school textbooks concerning the promotion on Children’s Rights and the sensitization of students towards them. Hellenic Journal of Research in Education, 6(1), 32–52. https://doi.org/10.12681/hjre.10834
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