Nana-Fatima Ozeto
About
My research project
Understanding Children's RightsMy PhD explores how children reason about social issues. I am specifically exploring reasoning about children's rights. My thesis aims to understand what rights are most important to children and the psychological competences that contribute to the willingness to endorse rights. I also take this further to assess whether children are willing to extend rights endorsements to outgroup members, the reasoning behind these judgments and the competences that contribute to this. I am conducting part of my research in Nigeria and assessing whether there are socio-cultural variations in reasoning about children's rights. Overall, this project aims to contribute to our understanding of social development, morality, and intergroup relations.
Supervisors
My PhD explores how children reason about social issues. I am specifically exploring reasoning about children's rights. My thesis aims to understand what rights are most important to children and the psychological competences that contribute to the willingness to endorse rights. I also take this further to assess whether children are willing to extend rights endorsements to outgroup members, the reasoning behind these judgments and the competences that contribute to this. I am conducting part of my research in Nigeria and assessing whether there are socio-cultural variations in reasoning about children's rights. Overall, this project aims to contribute to our understanding of social development, morality, and intergroup relations.
My qualifications
Publications
This pilot study is the first to examine whether a novel curriculum based on the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC) could increase children's endorsement and knowledge of children's rights. We conducted a pre-test-post-test design with an intervention and a comparison school. Pupils (n = 172) from Bulgaria, Italy, Norway, Romania, and Spain attended schools in which the curriculum was taught, whereas pupils in the comparison group (n = 120) attended schools in the same city where the curriculum was not taught. Both groups were tested on their endorsement and knowledge of rights before and at the end of the intervention. Children in the intervention group increased in endorsing children's rights at post-test more than did children in the intervention group. Most children believed that children had rights. Children in the intervention group showed modest increases in their knowledge of rights. Future ways of implementing the RFCDC are suggested.
Additional publications
Ozeto, N. T., & Allan, T. (2021). Investigating a Relationship between Perceived Stress, Religious Coping, and Religiosity in Migrant Muslim Women, Journal of Muslim Mental Health 15(1). doi: 10.3998/jmmh.265