Hammond, Lauren;
(2025)
Children’s rights in, and to, the city: everyday life, education and empowerment in London and Glasgow.
Children's Geographies
, 23
(2)
pp. 257-275.
10.1080/14733285.2025.2499436.
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Abstract
Research in children’s geographies and connected fields has enhanced knowledge of children’s lives, spatialities, mobilities and agency in cities. Drawing on a small-scale project – co-constructed with a teacher in London and a teacher in Glasgow – this article examines the relationships between education and children’s rights in, and to, the city. The research asked young people aged 11–12 years to draw/map their city and dream city and to engage with a questionnaire about their rights in education and everyday life. Analysis identified that the young people who participated, valued the city in which they lived but wished to make improvements to make it more liveable for themselves and those they share it with. The research found that young people actively considered (their own) lived citizenship when reflecting on their rights and that whilst they had often been taught about their rights, many did not feel confident in sharing their views on things that mattered to them. The article concludes by arguing for further research to examine the relationships between how citizenship is conceptualised in education policies, the curriculum-making done by teachers, and how young people with different identities and in different places experience the relationships between their (lived) citizenship and what they learn in schools.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Children’s rights in, and to, the city: everyday life, education and empowerment in London and Glasgow |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14733285.2025.2499436 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2025.2499436 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Children’s rights; urban geographies; citizenship education; schools; children’s geographies |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206868 |
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