Course: Children's Rights

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Course title Children's Rights
Course code KPG/MDEPR
Organizational form of instruction Exercise
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šmelová Eva, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Pitnerová Dagmar, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Matušková Linda, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Nováková Zdenka, JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
The course gives an overview of the issues of children's rights, their application in our society and violations of basic forms. 1. Basic concepts of problem. Historical progress of societal attitudes towards children. History and progress of the struggle for children's rights. 2. The basic legislative documents in the field of children's rights. Organizations and institutions engaged in the issue of children's rights. 3. The Convention on the Rights of the Child, its contents. Reaction of the Committee on Children's Rights UN report on the current status and implementation of children's rights in the Czech Republic. 4. Crimes against children - sexual abuse, child pornography and child prostitution. CAN syndrome. 5. Socio-pathological phenomena such as violations of children's rights - alcoholism and other addictions of children and their parents. 6. Alternative family care as a solution to the problem of child abuse in the family. The function of a social-legal protection of children. 7. Socio-pathological phenomena such as violations of children's rights - aggression, bullying, cruelty to children. 8. Socio-pathological phenomena such as violations of children's rights - child labor, child exploitation, slavery, neglect of education. Children in war, child soldiers. 9. Socio-pathological phenomena such as violations of children's rights - discrimination, intolerance, racial intolerance, xenophobia and negative attitudes towards different subjects. 10. Socio-pathological phenomena such as violations of children's rights - radikalism, sectarianism. 11. World issues affecting children, health care, the role of UNICEF and WHO in tackling global problems. Other global issues of children's rights violations.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
  • Attendace - 13 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Course Credit - 14 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Aplication of knowledges about childrens rights in educational work with children and the young in school and after- school area. Experience of specific children's rights and natural human rights in relation to realization of children´s rights as knowing need.
Theoretical knowledge and practical ability of aplication legal rules in fixed law branch. Dealing with principples adherence to children´s rights.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of basic legal institutes of private and public law. .

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

75% attendance at training, active participation in seminars - evaluation of student activity is part of the final evaluation.
Recommended literature
  • Úmluva o právech dítěte.
  • Zákon č. 359/1999 Sb., o sociálně-právní ochraně dítěte, ve znění pozdějších předpisů..
  • (2016). zákon č. 89/2012 Sb., občanský zákoník. ÚZ Sagit Ostrava.
  • BŮŽEK, A., MICHALÍK, J. (2002). Informatorium (nejen) o právech dítěte se zřetelem k otázkám výchovy a vzdělávání.. Olomouc.
  • ČUHELOVÁ, J. a kol. (2009). Základy práva pro pedagogy I. a II. díl. Ostrava: Key publishing.
  • DUNOVSKÝ, J., DYTRYCH, Z., MATĚJČEK, Z. (1995). Týrané, zneužívané a zanedbávané dítě.. Praha.
  • Hrušáková a kol. (2015). Rodinné právo. C.H.Beck Praha.
  • Ryšávková Veronika a kol. (2014). Nový občanský zákoník úplně pro všechny. Grada Praha.
  • Vaníčková, Eva. (2012). Stručný průvodce manuálem UNICEFpohledem nejlepšího zájmu dětí. Praha: UK.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching Social Sciences and Civics for Secondary Schools and Lower Secondary Schools (NA24-XX) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching Social Sciences and Civics for Secondary Schools and Lower Secondary Schools (NA25-XX) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter