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ERIC Number: EJ726524
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Mar-22
Pages: 2
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0009-4056
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Human Rights Education Can Be Integrated throughout the School Day
Childhood Education, v81 n3 p158-D Spr 2005
Research indicates that few state departments of education have actually mandated human rights education in their schools. Clearly, individual teachers will need to take responsibility for the integration of peace education and human rights education. By integrating human rights education and peace education into the daily fabric of the school day, there is a potential in taking first steps toward the integration of human rights education. Here are a few ways to begin: (1) display a poster on the Declaration of the Rights of the Child or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; (2) find a project that children can participate in--one that would be tangible to them; (3) expand children's global awareness by using a world map; (4) teach conflict resolution, modeling how to use it when a problem becomes evident; (5) clip articles from the newspaper and read them to the children each day; (6) use lesson plans expressly created for human rights education, such as those found in The Fourth R, a newsletter published by Amnesty International (for grades 4-12); and (7) reinforce the school's policy to "reduce, reuse, recycle," involving the children in sorting out materials used in class or other areas. (Contains 10 online resources.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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