Children\u27s rights in primary education

Otrokove pravice v osnovni šoli spadajo med manj raziskane teme v Sloveniji. Otroci pogosto niso slišani. V empiričnem delu je predstavljena raziskava, katere namen je ugotoviti, kako učenci poznajo otrokove pravice, potrjene s Konvencijo o otrokovih pravicah, kako jih razumejo in kako pogosto jih uporabljajo v vsakdanjem življenju ter pri katerih učnih predmetih so o njih največ slišali. V raziskavo je bilo vključenih 171 učencev iz osnovne šole v Sloveniji, na Madžarskem in v Srbiji. Ugotovljeno je bilo, da učenci poznajo otrokove pravice in mednarodni dokument, ki jih določa ter vedo našteti nekaj pravic. Najpogosteje so našteli pravico do izobraževanja, družine, igre in do prijateljev. Učenci so pokazali visoko stopnjo razumevanja otrokovih pravic, predvsem pri pravici do izobraževanja, pri pravici živeti s svojimi starši, pri pravici do lastne identitete in pri pravici do počitka, igre in prostega časa. O otrokovih pravicah so učenci največ slišali pri učnem predmetu spoznavanje okolja. Ugotovili smo, da učenci v povprečju vedno uporabljajo pravice, ki jim pripadajo in so jim le v redkih primerih odvzete. Izkazalo se je, da zelo velik delež učencev ustrezno uporablja svoje pravice v vsakodnevnih situacijah.Children\u27s rights in the primary school environment are among the less researched topics in Slovenia. Children are often not heard. The empirical part aimed to present a research with a purpose of identifying pupils’ awareness of children’s rights, ratified by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, how they perceive those rights, how often they are implemented in their everyday life, and in which school subjects they have heard about them the most. 171 primary school pupils from Slovenia, Hungary and Serbia were included in the research. It was found that the pupils are familiar with the topic of children’s rights and the international document defining those rights. Furthermore, they were able to list some of children’s rights. The most commonly listed rights were the right to an education, family, play and friends. The pupils showed a high level of understanding children\u27s rights, especially the right to an education, to live with their parents, to their own identity, and the right to rest, play and free time. Pupils mostly raised awareness of the children\u27s rights topic in the school subject of Natural and Social Sciences about Environmental Studies. We found that, on average, students can always use the rights that belong to them and are only rarely taken away from them. It was established that a very large proportion of pupils use their rights appropriately in everyday situations