Children, Classrooms and Challenging Behaviour: Do the Rights of the Many Outweigh the Rights of the Few?

Autor/inn/en	Gillett-Swan, Jenna K.; Lundy, Laura
Titel	Children, Classrooms and Challenging Behaviour: Do the Rights of the Many Outweigh the Rights of the Few?
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 48 (2022) 1, S.95-111 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gillett-Swan, Jenna K.) ORCID (Lundy, Laura)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
DOI	10.1080/03054985.2021.1924653
Schlagwörter	Civil Rights; Conflict Resolution; Student Behavior; Decision Making; Student Rights + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung
Abstract	Schools present a unique context for the generation and resolution of conflicts of human rights. While the conflicts that arise are many and various, a default response appears to be the prioritisation of the rights of the majority. Hence the rights of the many then trump the rights of the few. However, the intersection of multiple stakeholders, and multiple interests and rights, requires decision-makers to identify the rights at stake for all and address conflicts in ways that are both principled and transparent. Drawing on an established body of human rights theory, and using the example of children whose behaviour is causing disruption as a case, this paper offers a rights-informed approach to consider responses to some of the tensions and conflicts that can arise between students in schools. While acknowledging that (a) the resolution of these disputes will turn on individual facts and contexts and rarely be clear-cut and (b) that human rights theory and law on this issue is also complex and contested, we suggest that a rights-informed response should, and would usefully, be applied in situations when the interests of one child appear to conflict with the interests of others in the context of schools. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01