This website contains an overview for teaching about children's rights in kindergartens. This lesson takes place once a week in groups of 6-7 children aged 4-6 years.

The purpose of the lesson is to implement the part of the Main Curriculum of Kindergarten, which relates to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, for 5-6-year-old preschoolers. According to the curriculum, teachers must encourage the children to be active and active as well as learn about the rights and values that society is based on.

Iceland, like many other countries that have signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is obliged to abide by it and inform children about their rights. (child: a person under the age of 18).

The basis of teaching is respect,

care, participation and autonomy and to

these values help the children to form them

behavior that motivates and prepares them to

participate in a democratic society.

Ministry of Education and Culture. (2011)

. Kindergarten main curriculum. Reykjavík,

Ministry of Education and Culture.

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