Child Rights Knowledge and Children’s Education Rights

Education related rights are more complex than they appear on the surface. As such, the pursuit of their realisation highlights a number of wicked problems that may offer more questions than answers. The wicked problems in children’s rights and education critically considered in this chapter are positioned in terms of: (1) the varied interpretations and translations of the Convention in educational practice, (2) where rights knowledge and rights competencies sit in discussions about the ‘aims of education’, and (3) the (in)divisibility of rights articles in pursuit of furthering rights knowledge and rights competence. These themes are considered to reflect the cross-cutting “bigger picture” implications of the volume for future research and practice, in addition to those emphasised in each individual contribution