The aim for the study is to investigate whether or not personnel with pedagogical and managing responsibilities convey childrens rights in accordance with the documents governing the Swedish preschools and the convention on the rights of the child. The study’s research questions are as follows: according to personnel with pedagogical and managing responsibilities, what opportunities are made possible for children’s rights learning? How does personnel with pedagogical and managing responsibilities look upon their educational responsibility regarding children’s rights learning, and what aspects within the organization can affect this responsibility? A qualitative method is applied and six semi-structured interviews with personnel with pedagogical and managing responsibilities were conducted. Foucault’s perspective on power, in accordance with the interpretation of Axelsson and Qvarsebo (2017) is applied to the study. The theoretical framework will assist to illustrate the asymmetric relationships within the preschool. The result of the study indicates that preschoolteachers lack of knowledge in regard to the convention on the rights of the child affects if and how children are being thought about their rights. The study also concludes that preschoolteachers decisions concerning childrens perception abilities in relation to rights learning are centred around age presumptions. The study further demonstrates the significance of early rights learning situations starting in preschool this to facilitate children’s position as rights carrying citizens within their own right.

Questions concerning children's rights and children's place in society have been on the agenda for some decades now. Parallell to this movement questions about children's place in the bible, in the church and in systematic theology have entered the academical conversation. This paper attempts to find a method to investigate whether systematic theology as we know it, has the tools to address these new questions. Axel Honneth's theory on recognition will be important, since the three levels of recognitions he describes are designed to point out the difference between rights and solidarity, between formal recognition and the recognition that sprouts from genuine intrest in shared experience.  The thougths from Honneth are combined with John Wall's argumentation on seeing the child as a full humna being, as a subject. Risto Saarinen's discussion on asymmetrical relations, adds an important perspective. From these three theories, a method is formulated for putting the child in focus on the theological agenda. The gain is not only the recognition of a neglected group, measured to one third of humankind. The new viewpiont shreds its light upon questions important to all of us. The method is a systematic theological tool both useful for pointing out inconsistencies and to suggest solutions to the very same problems.  In the final discussion I show how this could be done by adressing the children's place in the postmodern family project, described by Katarina Westerlund, and children as liturgical leaders with the help of Karin Rubensson's thesis.