Childhood and Children’s Rights between Research and Activism

Rebecca Budde – academic coordinator of the MA Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights at University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam.Urszula Markowska-Manista – field researcher in education and childhood studies, director of M.A. Childhood Studies and Children's Rights at University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam; assistant Professor at University of Warsaw. Research interests: rights, childhood and education of children in fragile contexts in culturally diverse environments.

• Theories of childhood.- Children‘s rights discourses.- Agency, protagonism, political activism.- Researching and teaching.- Conceptualisations and approaches to children’s rights and childhood.