Institutional Rights and Rights: A Century of Childhood

Summary: Centenary lecture by Priscilla
Alderson - Free lecture - 5.30 for
6.00pm; Followed by drinks;
RSVP to Elaine Peck:
e.peck@ioe.ac.uk

Over the past century in Britain, adults' rights have completely
changed so that, at least in theory, all adults are respected
choice-makers and not submissive dependents. Yet children and
young people are still caught in the limbo of Victorian institutions
of childhood. In the new millennium, it is time to adopt up-to-
date understanding of children and their rights, to promote
everyone's equal rights to respect for their worth and dignity.
Owner: Institute of Education

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