(2011). ICDP Approach to Awareness-Raising about Children's Rights and Preventing Violence, Child Abuse, and Neglect. Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, v35 n12 p1053-1062 Dec. In April 2011, the Committee on the Rights of the Child issued the General Comment No. 13 on the right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence. Its Article 19 declares that \protective measures should, as appropriate, include effective procedures for the establishment of social programs to provide necessary support for the child and for those who have the care of the child.\ One available social program that focuses on providing support for parents, caregivers and children is the International Child Development Program (ICDP), which is presented in this article. The ICDP is designed to influence and improve the quality of contact and relation between the caregivers, usually parents, and children, through the practical application of the eight themes or guidelines for positive interaction. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is a value-based legal document ratified by most countries in the world. This is a significant achievement and it gives a new basis and… [Direct]
(1984). Civil Rights Law and the Brown Decision. The Brown decision of 1954 was the product of a planned program of litigation begun in the late 1920s and the early 1930s by a group of Black lawyers. Their work would not have succeeded if the ethos of the United States had not been changing simultaneously. The growth of a climate more conducive to civil rights is reflected in the presidential administrations of Truman through Carter. The 1947 "Truman Committee Report" called for changes in American life and law, with regard for race relations, and under Truman, the national government supported civil rights lawyers in some of their most important litigation. Although Eisenhower was reportedly appalled by the Brown decision, he did nothing to hinder the implementation of the decision and sent military forces to Little Rock, Arkansas, when the first armed insurrection against Brown arose. Kennedy supported Brown both publicly and privately, and Johnson was a vigorous proponent of civil rights, who fought effectively for…
(2004). A Union Voice for Racial Equality: Miles Stanley and Civil Rights in West Virginia, 1957-68. Journal of Appalachian Studies, v10 n1-2 p111-128 Spr-Fall. On October 15, 1959, union delegates from across West Virginia converged upon the Daniel Boone Hotel in the capital city of Charleston to participate in the West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO's second statewide constitutional convention. Charleston, at this time, remained a segregated city. So when G. William Dunn, an African-American delegate from local 863 of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union and secretary for the Federation's Committee on Civil Rights, attempted to register in the Daniel Boone, management refused him (WV Labor Federation, 1959, 124-5). Federation President, Miles Clark Stanley had anticipated such a confrontation. And he promptly issued an ultimatum: either the hotel abolishes its discriminatory policy or he would move the convention to another city. Fearful of losing the revenue generated by the convention, hotel management acquiesced to Stanley's demands and registered Dunn. The Federation's stand against segregation not only integrated the Daniel…
(1998). UNICEF Annual Report, 1998. UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs, and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. This report details the accomplishments and activities of UNICEF for the year 1997. The report begins with introductory remarks from the U.N. Secretary-General. The overview statement from the executive director notes the need to work toward a new global agenda for children in the 21st century while meeting the 2000 goals set at the World Summit for Children. The accomplishments of UNICEF in 1997 are then summarized, focusing on the development of partnerships to meet goals, fulfillment of the World Summit goals, attention devoted to process in achieving goals, broadening of scope of UNICEF activities, and building of a culture of human rights. UNICEF efforts to improve child health and education, reduce maternal mortality, end discrimination against girls and women, end child…
(1992). The Role of the United States in a Changing World. Revised Edition. Choices for the 21st Century. This unit is designed to lead high school students to consider seriously the U.S. role in the world. At the core of the unit is a framework of choices for U.S. foreign policy. These choices, or Futures as they are called in the unit, are intended to be a vehicle to guide students through the process involved in developing a reasoned opinion on the U.S. role in the changing world. The unit includes a 5-day lesson plan, background reading highlighting three critical junctures in U.S. history, and a framework of four clearly defined alternative directions for future U.S. policy. In Future 1, U.S. citizens have a \good vs. evil\ view of world affairs, and believe they have the right and responsibility to act unilaterally to try to help spread democracy and respect for human rights. In Future 2, citizens have a conventional \balance of power\ view, and do not feel any fundamental change is needed in equity policies. In Future 3, people have a \globalist\ view, and believe that all…
(1995). Indigenous Affairs = Asuntos Indigenas, 1994-1995. Indigenous Affairs, 1994-95. This document consists of the eight issues of the IWGIA newsletter "Indigenous Affairs" published during 1994-95. Each issue is published in separate English and Spanish versions. The newsletter is published by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), an organization that supports indigenous peoples in their efforts to gain collective rights to their land, culture, and government. Articles cover the effects of colonization and externally based economic development on indigenous populations in Mexico, Canada, the United States, Australia, the Arctic, Central and South America, Africa, India, China, southeast Asia, and Pacific Islands; the role of IWGIA as an advocate of indigenous peoples, decolonization, and sustainable development; federal laws and development projects that restrict basic human rights and have had serious implications for sustainable and equitable development on indigenous lands; case studies addressing the numerous threats to the…
(1995). The Uprooted: Refugees and the United States. A Multidisciplinary Teaching Guide. This interdisciplinary unit focuses upon the increasing number of refugees who flee their home countries out of fear of persecution. More than 20 million people are estimated to be refugees, with 80 percent women and children. The unit includes five parts. Part 1, \Introduction,\ includes: (1) \Background\; (2) \Fact or Fiction?\; (3) \What's the News?\; (4) \Three Strikes–You're Out!\; and (5) \Packing Your Suitcase.\ Part 2, \Refugees and U.S. History,\ includes: (1) \Background\; (2) \Jewish Refugees from Eastern Europe: 1890-1990\; (3) \From Exclusion to Acceptance\; (4) \Getting the Words Right\; (5) \Interpreting Cartoons\; and (6) \The Numbers Tell the Story.\ Part 3, \Refugees and the United States Today,\ contains: (1) \Background\; (2) \United States Refugee Law\; (3)\You Be the Judge\; (4) \How Far Should We Open the Door?\; (5) \Are Some More Equal than Others?\; (6) \How Generous Are We?\; (7) \Locking Up Refugees?\; (8) \Sanctuary and the Law\; (9) \Crossing the…
(1995). Dynamic Teachers: Leaders of Change. This book examines the emerging roles of teachers whose classrooms reflect a rapidly changing society. Teachers are seen as needing to: be expert in both content and pedagogy; be committed to professional behavior; facilitate conditions for student learning; challenge students' thinking through appropriate questioning strategies; extend the classroom into the community; and become a change agent, advocating for school reform. Using information from case studies of working teachers, a portrait of a \dynamic teacher\ is developed, illustrating how the dynamic teacher differs from colleagues and explaining why such differences are essential to the success of schooling in the future. Seven chapters then explore seven interactive and overlapping roles that, taken together, form the\dynamic teacher.\ Chapters consider: (1) the \moral steward,\ who acts on the belief that the purpose of education is to ensure each child's right to reach his or her full potential; (2) the \constructor,\ who…
(2001). Seminar on "The Methodology of Civics Teaching" for Teachers from the Chechen Republic (Ghelendjik, Russian Federation, October 1-6, 2001). The need for civic education is an important and urgent issue throughout the world, particularly in the Chechen Republic, which is undergoing transition from a war culture to a peace culture. The European Commission, together with the Council of Europe and other entities, held a training seminar on civics teaching for teachers and school administrators (n=20) from the Chechen Republic in Ghelendjik in October 2001. The seminar had the following objectives: (1) to discuss the teaching resource presented in the handbook "Civic Education," prepared by Russian specialists; (2) to discuss the introduction of civic education in the Chechen schools; (3) to examine ways to manage schools democratically and create a democratic school life; (4) to determine how to support civic education in Chechen schools; and (5) to acquaint teachers with the methodological foundations of civic education, its concept and working methods, as well as to provide guidelines for introducing civic…
(1996). Celebrating Diversity through Multicultural Literature. Intended for teachers of middle school, this book offers information and activities to help students appreciate and value world events from the perspective of diverse human cultures. The goals are to provide interdisciplinary and multicultural activities that integrate language, reading, and writing skills into the five content areas of social studies, and to foster in students an awareness of world cultures and a respect for all people, regardless of their ethnic background. The book features 11 novels for young people which may either be read to or by the students. The reading selections each focuses on a topic that connects global historic events and cultural traditions while integrating social studies concepts such as diversity, environment, human rights, change adaptation, and conflict. Each of the units includes a synopsis of the featured book, a list of vocabulary words, discussion questions, integrated activities, and two student activity sheets. A graphics section at the…
(1994). Basic Education in the Twenty-First Century. International Commission on Education for the Twenty-First Century (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 13-15, 1994). This paper discusses major changes in the coverage, structure, and conception of what constitutes basic education. Many of these changes have been brought about by a growing international focus on basic education. This evidences a gradual but fundamental change in the manner in which education is perceived in relationship to economic development. Once seen as an item of consumption, education is now recognized as an investment in the most essential factor of production, human competence. The importance of basic education has also been given fresh impulse by the growing attention being given to social development by the United Nations system. Education is seen as the key to progress in the areas of social development, population, and the role of women. To the arguments for education as a basic human right must be added that of education as an indispensable means for social and economic development. On the national level, these changes are a result of an increasingly evident… [PDF]
(2001). Education for a Culture of Peace in a Gender Perspective. The goal of this study unit on education for a culture of peace in a gender perspective is to assist teachers in their efforts to educate caring and responsible citizens, open to other cultures, able to appreciate the value of freedom, respectful of human dignity and differences, and able to prevent conflicts or resolve them by nonviolent means. Designed as a resource for teacher education, the manual is relevant for secondary schools and can also be used for secondary school teacher preparation and for facilitators of non-formal adult education. It responds to the demands of a growing number of educators who want to be part of a global movement toward a culture of peace and to provide their students with learning experiences in holistic and gender-sensitive human rights and peace education. The manual is divided in two parts: Part 1, the social foundations component, offers an overview of the developing field of education for a culture of peace, its purposes, the issues it…
(2023). The Practical Wisdom of "Phronesis" in the Education of Purported Virtuous Character. Educational Theory, v73 n2 p137-152 Apr. In the context of the recent revival of virtue ethics, the notion of character formation under the rational guidance of Aristotle's notion of "phronesis," or practical wisdom, has been exalted as the principal aim of moral education. However, this is not unproblematic insofar as the promotion of Aristotelian "phronesis" seems to operate on rather different levels or to be ambivalent between the two rather different (and demonstrably separable) aims or goals of fostering reasonably sound deliberation and judgment concerning "right" or good (moral or other) agency or action and the allegedly optimal (empirical) psychological ordering of cognition and affect to the end of good or commendable human character. In this paper, David Carr argues that while the first of these aims is by and large educationally acceptable and defensible, the second is neither a desirable nor coherent educational goal…. [Direct]
(1988). Seventh/Eighth Grade Social Studies. United States and New York State History. A Calendar of Lessons. This calendar of lessons conforms to the New York State syllabus for grades 7-8, United States and New York History, which was officially implemented throughout the state in September 1987. It is a guide to the objectives of the state social studies program, not a prescription for day-to-day lesson plans. United States and New York State History is a chronologically-organized two-year course of study that traces the human experience in the United States from pre-Columbian times to the present, tying major political, economic, and social trends in U.S. history to parallel trends and timeframes in New York State history. References are made to Canada and Mexico where relevant. A social history approach is utilized because of its developmental appropriateness to students in these grades. The course is organized into 12 units to be developed and explored within the two-year timeframe. It builds on and reinforces the skills, concepts, and content understandings introduced in the K-6… [PDF]
(2023). Education and New Developments 2023 — Volume 1. Online Submission This book contains the full text of papers and posters presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2023), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the most important contributions resides in what and how we learn through the improvement of educational processes, both in formal and informal settings. The International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching and human development. The goal is to offer a worldwide connection between teachers, students, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in educational issues. We take pride in having been able to connect and… [PDF]