Prof Laura Lundy and Dr Elizabeth Welty presented an invited paper with the title, ‘Would the UNCRC be different if children had been involved in drafting it?' on the 1st of July at University College London at a conference to honour the work of renowned international children's rights scholar, Prof Michael Freeman.  Focus groups of children aged 8 -10 years were asked what they thought the purposes of education should be, and these responses will  be used to create a child authored version of  Article 29 of the UNCRC.  Laura and Elizabeth were presenting on behalf of an international research team including Lacey Peters of City University New York, Natasha Blanchet-Cohen of Concordia University, Dympna Devine of University College Dublin, Beth Blue Swadener of Arizona State University and Kylie Smith of the University of Melbourne.

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