As a second right, Matthes formulates the right to a non-violent and non-discriminatory education: “This includes pronouncing the name correctly in the other language or even not tolerating any withdrawal of love. Removal and discrimination can also occur through gestures and facial expressions.
The third right, that children have a right to professional public education, is a matter of great concern to her, which she boldly underlines in her tone and flow of words: “The importance of the profession of educator is far from recognized. On the one hand we have academization, on the other we have narrow-gauge training. If the quality of education were to be there, it would not necessarily require academia.
Professional training should show itself through a different perspective, different skills than parents and, above all, to broaden the horizon: “Meet new children’s books, go to the zoo”. It is about broadening the experience, but also about owning the world and participating in the culture.
When it comes to the last right, that children are entitled to digital freedom, she herself is shocked when parents look at their smartphones while having a conversation with their child. “Children have the right to meet their parents without a smartphone,” is her urgent call for conscious media consumption and a conscious media role model.
From a film on children’s rights to thanks to a committed working group: children’s rights need allies
The children of the Peter and Paul kindergarten of Catholic youth welfare screened a film on the rights of the child, which will be shown after the passionately formulated manifesto.
Pedagogical specialists from independent kindergartens and municipal institutions have been collaborating for months with Sevim Leventoglu and Claudia Loos, specialist consultants of the daycare office, on the framework program for the action week for children’s rights in Augsburg. Both pedagogues would like to thank everyone involved, but also Unicef Augsburg, for their courageous participation and planning with children during the Children’s Rights Campaign Week.
Sevim Leventoglu puts it in a nutshell: “Children’s rights need allies, they need people who are convinced, but above all who argue warmly. Above all, they need you. Thank you for being here!”
