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Hayes, Noirin – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2010
The decade 1997 to 2007 was a dramatic one for Ireland. Driven by a strong economy it had low rates of unemployment and attracted a large population of immigrant workers. These changes impacted directly on family life--most particularly in the area of the education and care of young children. The recent and equally dramatic change in economic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Young Children
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Levesque, Roger J. R. – American Psychologist, 1996
Outlines actual and potential uses in the United States of international children's rights standards, comparing the content and intent of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child with current U.S. policy and jurisdiction. The analysis underscores the differences between the international and U.S. approaches to children's rights. (SLD)
Descriptors: Change, Childhood Needs, Childrens Rights, Educational Change
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Levesque, Roger J. R. – Update on Law-Related Education, 1998
Addresses the issue of children's human rights in relation to the United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child that seeks to give priority to children in the adoption of individual countries' polices. Focuses on U.S. policies concerning children's' rights and introduces two different views of the impact. (CMK)
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Civil Liberties, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Life