Children's Human Rights in Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Special Education Schools.

Dissertation project for Helena Yourston
Supervisors: Ann Quennerstedt and Anette Bagger

A rights-promoting educational environment where children experience early education about, through, and for rights is emphasised by the Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training (UN, 2011). The need for basic research that maps and analyses the teaching and learning of human rights in adapted primary schools is great. Today, there is almost no knowledge at all about how rights education is carried out in adapted schools. The overall purpose of the thesis is to provide knowledge about human rights education for students in adapted primary schools - i.e. education about, through and for human rights for students with intellectual disabilities. The study is expected to make an important contribution to the very limited knowledge about pedagogical work in adapted primary schools and education for human rights. The thesis's interest in knowledge is directed towards teachers and the education that is given.