1. The following resources describe the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The second resource is designed for children.

UNESCO (n.d.), Fact Sheet: The Right to Participation. Available online: https://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Right-to-Participation.pdf (accessed 24 January 2018).

UNESCO (n.d.), UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Child Friendly Language. 
Available online: https://www.unicef.org/rightsite/files/uncrcchilldfriendlylanguage.pdf
(accessed 24 January 2018).

2. These resources pertain to children’s participation:

MacNaughton, G., G. Hughes, and K. Smith (2007), ‘Young Children’s Rights and Public Policy: Practices and Possibilities for Citizenship in the Early Years’, Children and Society, 21 (6): 458-469. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2007.00096.x

Osborn, A., and L.M. Bromfield (2007), ‘Participation of Children and Young People in Care in Decisions Affecting their Lives,” National Child Protection Clearinghouse Research Brief No. 6. Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies.

3. These resources connect children’s rights and citizenship with classroom practice:

Di Santo, A., and N. Kenneally (2014), ‘A Call for a Shift in Thinking: Viewing Children as Rights-holders in Early Childhood Curriculum Frameworks’, Childhood: 395-406. DOI: 10.1080/00094056.2014.982969 

Invernizzi, A., and J. Williams (2008), Children and Citizenship, London: SAGE.

Project Zero (n.d.), ‘Children are Citizens Project’, Project Zero. Available online: http://www.pz.harvard.edu/projects/children-are-citizens (accessed 24 January 2018).

4. The following are more theoretical resources or academic studies of citizenship:

Ailwood, J., J. Brownlee, E. Johansson, C. Cobb-Moore, S. Walker, G. Boulton-Lewis (2011), ‘Educational Policy for Citizenship in the Early Years in Australia’, Journal of Education Policy, 26(5): 641-653.

Bath, C., and R. Karlsson (2016), ‘The Ignored Citizen: Young Children’s Subjectivities in Swedish and English Early Childhood Education Settings’, Childhood, 23(4): 554-565.

Dunne, J. (2006), ‘Childhood and Citizenship: A Conversation Across Modernity’, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 14 (1): 5-1. https://doi.org/10.1080/13502930685209771

Jans, M. (2004), ‘Children as Citizens: Towards a Contemporary Notion of Child Participation’, Childhood, 11(1): 27-44.

Johansson, E., A. Emilson, and A-M Puroila (2017), Values Education in Early Childhood Settings: Concepts, Approaches and Practices. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer International Publishing.