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Sonja Grover is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University. She has published extensively in the area of children’s human rights.
(See my biography page for more information).
Publications:
| Normalizing Social Inequity through High Stakes Educational Testing: The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test as a Canadian Case Example | |||
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This paper discusses how standardized tests as a prerequisite to high school graduation perpetuate social inequity by creating a barrier to education for disadvantaged youth. |
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| The Child as Human Rights Defender: Implications for Peace Education | |||
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This paper discusses children as human rights defenders and the implications for peace curricula. |
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| The Place of Empathy in Social Science Research | |||
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This paper describes the skeptical response of a majority of a PhD class to a documentary film concerning child soldiers. The educational implications are discussed. |
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| Legal Theory as Ethical Principle in Children's Rights: On the Need for a Universal Human Rights Perspective | |||
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This paper describes the manner in which particular psychological and political perspectives have unduly influenced legal theory underlying recent landmark Canadian judicial decisions which affect children's rights. |
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| Age Discrimination and the Disabled Child in the Educational Context: A Canadian Court Case Example | |||
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This paper examines the undermining of autistic school aged children's participation rights in Ontario and the issue of age discrimination as it relates to disabled children. |
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| Co-opting Children’s Rights Language: An Example Concerning the Topic of Sexual Exploitation of Adolescents | |||
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This paper illustrates the use of language to create a social reality in which the adolscent's protection of the person rights are not sufficiently protected. |
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| Lay Perceptions of the Link Between Self-Advocacy and Good Mental Health | |||
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This paper explores the social constructivist aspects of the notion of ‘clinical depression’ and how that construction might impact the individual’s self-perceived potential for self-advocacy. |
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| Exploring the Angst of Some Academic Feminists Concerning Children’s Rights | |||
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This paper examines and challenges feminist critiques of the children's human rights movement including the claim that children's issues inevitably displace women's rights issues. |
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