Social justice and children’s rights

6 Apr 2024

This webinar explores how teachers and leaders involved in early childhood education can authentically and meaningfully engage with children’s voices, perspectives and experiences, and utilise these voices in their teaching practice.

It draws on the research of the two presenters who have long focused on bringing marginalized voices and the knowledge and values that historically have been excluded to the table, and on exploring the promise children, families, and diverse communities across the world can bring. Both Professor Beth Blue Swadener and Dr Lacey Peters remain deeply connected to practice, and the webinar explores how ideas around social justice and children’s rights can influence and inform the day-to-day work of teachers.

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Presenters

Professor Beth Blue Swadener

Dr Beth Blue Swadener is Professor of Justice Studies and of Social and Cultural Pedagogy in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on internationally comparative social policy, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, impacts of neoliberal policy on local communities, and children’s rights and voices.

Assistant Professor Lacey Peters

Dr Lacey Peters is an assistant professor and graduate program co-coordinator for early childhood care and education. Lacey started her career in early childhood as a preschool teacher in Arizona. During her doctoral studies, she became engaged in children’s rights-based research, emphasizing the views and voices of younger people in her scholarship. Her dissertation research sought to gain in-depth understandings on children’s perspectives and experiences transitioning from preschool to kindergarten. She has published in the Journal of Early Childhood Research, Global Studies of Childhood, Early Years, the School Community Journal, and Teaching and Teacher Education. She was a co-editor of the Sage Handbook on Global Childhoods which was just recently published.