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Children’s Rights International Study Project (CRISP) – A shift from the children’s rights focus to the quality of life instrument. Zoran Pavlovic, Tina Rutar Educational Research Institute Gerbiceva 62, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia phone: +386 1 4201-256 -- fax: +386 1 4201-266
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Children’s Rights International Study Project (CRISP) – A shift from the children’s rights focus to the quality of life instrument Zoran Pavlovic, Tina Rutar Educational Research Institute Gerbiceva 62, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia phone: +386 1 4201-256 -- fax: +386 1 4201-266 mailto:zoran.pavlovic@pei.si
Aims and history In the late 1980-ies International School Psychology Association started a cross-national research project “… to determine the perspectives of children and major child caretakes regarding the existing and desired status of children’s rights in homes and schools.” (Hart, S.N., Z. Pavlovic & M. Zeidner: The ISPA Cross-National Children’s Rights Research Project. School Psychology International, SAGE London, Vol. 22/2, May 2001, p. 99.)
First sweep • Survey involved samples of students (400 minimum) at the age 12-14, in 20 countries of most continents. • 40 items represented the UN Convention and general rights questions, covering a general everyday experience of the child … • … to be evaluated on 5 point importance and existence scales, for the home and the school separately.
Sample of the first sweep results:relative ranks of importance of the right ‘to be respected for your religion, language, color, race and social group no matter what they are’.
Sample of the first sweep results:percentages of low responses on existence scales for the right ‘to be protected from people and situations which might hurt your body’.
Modifications in the second sweep (2000 and on) • Rationalization and diversification of the types of questions, based on the content (importance and existence measured on less uniformed scales, new questions regarding the ages of desired and expected achievement of rights); • Expansion to other student age groups (beside the group 12-14, also 8-10 and 16-18); • Expansion to new target groups (beside students and teachers also parents).
Sweeps in Slovenia • First sweep in 1991-1992, with 900 students and adequate sample of teachers and school psychologists; • Pilot sweep in 1994 with experimental questionnaire modifications on a reduced sample – served as a base for the international methodology modification; • Second sweep in 2001, with approx. 3000 students and corresponding sample of parents, teachers and other school professionals; • An intermediate re-measurement with the same instrument • The major re-measurement in 2006 on a similar sample, with minor modifications of the survey instruments.
Sweeps in Slovenia (2) • The series of the sweeps in Slovenia enables us to establish certain trends. • Certain value hierarchies can be followed through the 15 years span. • Most of more detailed insight can be obtained for the last 5 years, after the major restructuring of the questionnaire. • Second sweep was not such an international success, therefore only limited cross-cultural comparisons can be obtained.
The most important items (primary school students, age 12-15) 1992 Importance of rights at home: Right to … … food, clothing and shelter. … be given help quickly in distress. … be given medical help when sick … be protected from physical injuries. … to have opportunity to express affection to others. Importance of rights at the school: … food, clothing and shelter. … be given help quickly in distress. … be given medical help when sick … to grow up strong and healthy … to develop capacities and talents. 2001 Right to: ... be given the medical help when sick ... be with people who love and care about him/her ... have opportunities to be (for associating, socializing) with friends ... have a time and place to be alone without being bothered by others ... get the help he/she needs in order to learn 2006 Right to: ... be given the medical help when sick ... have opportunities to be (for associating, socializing) with friends ... be with people who love and care about him/her … to have the grade explained in school … influence decisions about what will happen to you (… get the help you need to learn) Importance trends - Slovenia
Importance – international comparisons(Students age 16-18: Slovenia, Hungary, India)
Trends in desired ages for obtaining adult like rights - Students 12-14, Slovenia
Trends in adults’ attitudes towards children’s rights - Slovenia
Trends on assigning responsibility for the child SloveniaResponsibility for the child: 0 – all responsibility on community/society, none on the family5 – responsibility evenly divided10 – all responsibility on the family, none on the community
The Future: From the rights to the quality of life survey? • The survey has not been exclusively rights oriented to begin with (not strictly linked to the UN Convention, nor exclusively related to the obligations of the state; • Legal rights are a concept too narrow and often not related to the everyday experience of the child, “natural” rights are too arbitrary; • Quality of life provides a potentially broader concept and allows for the linking to the variety of research experiences and approaches, while probably more demanding from the point of view of the need to systematize such indicators.
