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The training guide
provides practical activities for human rights education in primary
and secondary schools to teachers who want to foster awareness and
knowledge of human rights. After an introduction into the theory of
teaching human rights, the guide provides ideas for how to begin
encouraging human rights in the classroom through activities
promoting confidence and social respect, trust, and classroom rules.
Numerous practical activities for teaching a wide range of human
rights – including the right to life, to development, to freedom of
thought and not to be discriminated against – are then explained.
Finally, the guide gives suggestions for further action.
Chapter One lays
out principal human rights concepts and the fundamentals of human
rights education. It reviews basic content and methodologies and
elaborates on participatory techniques.
Chapter Two is
intended for primary school teachers, offering suggestions for
nurturing younger children's sense of their own worth and that of
others through materials that evoke the human rights principles of
human dignity and equality.
The activities in
Chapter Two and Chapter Three are intended to give students a more
profound awareness and understanding of human rights issues around
the world and in their own classroom and community. They aim at
stimulating independent thinking and research and building skills
for active citizenship in a democracy.
[OHCHR, ABC:
Teaching Human Rights, New York and Geneva 2003, page 7] |
