New research project of Dr. Agnes Anna Arndt

In the upcoming years, the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden (HAIT), will carry out the research project "To their own good? Children's rights and democratic education in Saxony and East Central Europe since 1924", funded by the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism (SMWK).

Referring to the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which is currently celebrating its 100th anniversary, the research project, led by Dr. Agnes Anna Arndt, will analyse the development of children's rights from 1924 to 2024 in their global, national and local interrelationships. Approaches from social, cultural and legal history will be combined with methods from the digital humanities and related to current challenges in child and youth policy.

Designed as a historical research programme, the project also sees itself as a contribution to the current debates on children's rights, which have become increasingly important, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic and the wars in Ukraine and Israel. The HAIT assumes that a look into the past can help to find orientation in the current multiple crises. At the same time, the project will expand knowledge about the rights and protection of children and contribute to pro-democratic political education.

It will show which impulses can be gained from the historical examination of the development of children's rights for current problems in child and youth welfare and how these impulses can contribute to strengthening the educational opportunities of politically responsible adolescents.

For their own good? is part of the research field Transformation research in an international comparative perspective.

Information on the positions to be filled for the project will be published under "Job advertisements".