Children's and Youth Perspectives: Voices in Their Own Narratives and Socio-Educational Contexts
Date: February 5–6. Place: Dusseldorf, Germany, Hochschule Düsseldorf - University of Applied Sciences
The Children Rights Congress: Children's and Youth Perspectives: Voices in Their Own Narratives and Socio-Educational Contexts hosted scholars, educators, and practitioners to explore the ways in which children and youth express their experiences, identities, and agency within educational and social environments Thank you to our hosts from Hochschule Düsseldorf and the Deutsche Korczak Gesellschaft, and with the invaluable support of the UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Poland.
Keynotes and plennaries
Opening Address Educating for Truth and Freedom: Janusz Korczak’s Pedagogy in the Era of Cognitive Conflict Prof. Dr. Hab. Anna Odrowąż-Coates, Poland. Available here: https://ika.today/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Opening-Speech-Dusseldorf-Educating-for-Truth-and-Freedom.pdf -------------------- Successful Educational Trajectories of Children from Schools with the Lowest Socio-Economic Status (SES) Dr. Ane López de Aguileta Jaussi, Spain. --------- Janusz Korczak’s Educational Philosophy and its Relevance Today Dr. Inna Spivakova, Svitlana Petrovska, Liliia Maidanyk, Ukrainian Janusz Korczak Association. With students: Maya Feldman, Sofiia Bielichenko, Mariia Smirnova, Mila Spivakova – students of Klovsky lyceum #77, members of the Ukrainian Janusz Korczak Association. Ukraine. -------------------------------------------------------------- Janusz Korczak’s “social education“ following Paul Natorp Dr. Michael Kirchner, Bielefeld University. Germany. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Who Owns the Perspective? Power, Voice and Adultism in Childhood Studies” Keynote by Prof. Dr. Katja Gramelt, University of applied sciences, Germany. --------------------------------------------------------------- -----Plenary Session: Janusz Korczak’s Wisdom Concerning Children’s Voices in Socio-educational Contexts by Dr. Avi Tsur, Israel. ------------------------------------------------------------- “You don’t know how it is to be the only black student in the classroom”. Narratives of Black students in Greek secondary schools. by Prof. Dr. Antigoni-Alba Papakonstantinou, Anastasia Kelesidi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. --------- Beyond Representation: Strengthening Muslim Youth Participation in Urban Life. by Redouan Aoulad Ali, Circle of Muslims in Düsseldorf (KDDM) & Dr. Des. Agata Skalska, Hochschule Düsseldorf, Germany. ---------------------------------------------------------------- A City fights for Freedom. The Narrative of Lwów Eaglets in the interwar Poland. by Prof. Damian Markowski, Jan Karski Institute of War Losses Pilecki Institute, Poland ------------------------------------------------------------ Desynchronized time, a neglected form of structural violence on children and youth. by Prof. Daniel Gabaldón-Estevan, Universitat de València, Spain ---------------------------------------------- Young Poles and Reenacting and Living History in the Face of new local political, methodological, and narrative challenges. by Dr Bartosz Gondek, Jan Karski Institute of War Losses, University of Physical Education and Sport in Gdańsk, Poland ------------------------- Closing Keynote “Listen to the future!” by Karin Morrison, Korczak Association Australia ------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop: “Wie moet er passen?’ (Who should fit?) Lead by Arie de Bruin and Hélène Dongelmans, Netherlands.
Scientific Committee
ESA RN10 Professors: Anna Odrowąż-Coates, Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland, acoates@aps.edu.pl Antigone-Alba Papakonstantinou, University of Athens, Greece Ece Cihan Ertem, University of Vienna, Austria Eva Patricia Gonçalves, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal Dinah Gross, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Ledia Kashahu-Xhelilaj, Aleksandër Moisiu University of Durrës, Albania Emanuela Emilia Rinaldi, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy Aina Tarabini, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Sonja Kosunen, University of Eastern Finland Eleni Tsiknakou, Panteion University of Social and Political Science, Athens, Greece Ane Lopez de Aguileta, University of Barcelona, Spain IKA Representatives: Dr Hatem El-Abed, Tunesia Prof. Moshe Shner, Israel Dr Avi Tsur, Israel Dr Marek Michalak, Poland Dr. Inna Spinakova, Ukraine Dr Eva Haller, Germany Prof. Ewa Jarosz, US, Poland Dr Urszula Tokarczyk Bar, UAM, Poland Prof. Roza Valeeva, Kursk Host institutions Prof. Dr. Hochschule Düsseldorf Elke Kruse, Dusseldorf, Germany Dr Agata Skalska, Hochschule Düsseldorf, Germany Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Maluga, German Korczak Society, Germany
Thanks to the hospitability of the University of Applied Sciences in Dusseldorf, gathered together over 140 participants from 17 countries including Australia, Austria, Argentina, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Israel, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine. It was wonderful to intersect between sociologists of education from ESA network and the Korczakian educators from IKA.
