Seminar 2: Children's rights, citizenship and critical realism, part 2 

This is the second in a seminar series on 'Childhood, rights, research ethics and critical realism:New ways to research childhood' with Priscilla Alderson, Professor Emerita of Childhood Studies. It was held at the Institute of Education on 11th February 2014.
Children's rights, citizenship and critical realism
Do universal rights really exist, or are rights simply local ideas that vary in time and place? When do 'human' rights begin in life? Do they gradually develop up towards adulthood, or can babies have human rights and be citizens? How can critical realist concepts of being and knowing, and of the four planes of social being, inform research about rights and citizenship?
For more information about the childhood stream of work at the Institute of Education, London, see: www.ioe.ac.uk/s...