Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1 Complexities and perspectives in promoting participation and inclusion -- 1. Education rights in a society emerging from conflict: curriculum and student participation as a pathway to the realization of rights / Laura Lundy -- 2. Children's rights and educational exclusion: The impact of zero-tolerance in schools / Valerie Polakow -- 3. The protagonism of under-18 youth in the Quebec Student Movement: The right to political participation and education / Natasha Blanchet-Cohen -- 4. What's right in children's rights? The subtext of dependency / Evangelia Tressou -- Section 2 Child-rights approaches in the early years -- 5. A Rights-based approach to observing and assessing children in the early childhood classroom / Kylie Smith -- 6. "You're Not Listening to Us": Explicating children's school experiences to build opportunity for increased participation within school communities in the United States / Lisa Lacy -- 7. Renarrativizing indigenous rights-based provision within "mainstream" early childhood services / Cheryl Rau -- 8. Restoring indigenous languages and the right to learn in a familiar language: A case of black South African children / Mokgadi Moletsane -- Section 3 Education rights issues in diverse contexts -- 9. Pursuing democracy through education rights: perspectives from South Africa / Beth Blue Swadener -- 10. Claiming the right to quality education in Nicaragua / Karen Alicia Ortiz Alvarado -- 11. Getting an education: How travellers' knowledge and experience shape their engagement with the system / Colette Murray -- 12. When boys are pushed-pulled out of school: Rights to education in the Philippines / Leodinito Y. Canete -- 13. Intersections of education and freedom of religion rights in the UNCRC and in practice / Janette Habashi.