Through the Lens of Children's Rights: A Discourse Analysis of Popular Children's Literature
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Adopted in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) delineates the inherent, equal, and indivisible rights that all children hold. However, almost 30 years after the establishment of the UNCRC, there is still a lack of awareness of children’s rights. Through the lens of children’s right, this study examined if, how, and to what extent children’s rights are communicated in the lexical and pictorial narratives of ten popular preschool children’s storybooks. Findings show that although children’s rights discourses are plentiful in varying degrees in children’s storybooks, these discourses are primarily implicit. Implications from this study suggest that early childhood educators may adopt a “right-integrative” (Di Santo & Kenneally, 2014, p. 396) lens when selecting, reading, and discussing storybooks with young children, with an aim to increase awareness of rights. Keywords: children’s rights; children’s literature; United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".