(2007). Education and the Rights of the Child in Europe. Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, v37 n3 p357-367 Sep. This article analyses the situation of the right to education in Europe, based on a comparative study of the recommendations made by the Committee on the Rights of the Child with respect to the reports submitted to the Committee by the European States Parties. The primary sources used are the Committee's concluding observations and the individual reports of the States Parties. The article analyses some of the educational aspects underlying the Convention on the Rights of the Child, such as obstacles to the enjoyment of the right to education, access to that right, discrimination in education, school discipline and human rights-based education. The conclusions suggest consideration of a European map, highlighting certain difficulties in such areas as access to education, discrimination against particular groups and a certain ambivalence in relation to the use of corporal punishment…. [Direct]
(1978). Children's Rights and Child Abuse. Day Care and Early Education, 5, 3, 25-7, Spr 78. Presents a summary of the principles of human rights and of the shocking abuse which violates those principles. Describes an effort on a national level to combat this problem. (BR)…
(1986). Multicultural Society: The Qualitative Aspects. Research Papers in Education, v1 n3 p217-36 Oct. This paper describes current European multicultural societies, and explores the social problems experienced in education and the related issues in employment, community life, social welfare, and human rights. (Author/MT)…
(2013). Peacebuilding in Community Colleges: A Teaching Resource. United States Institute of Peace Offering lifelong and developmental learning to over 13 million students at nearly 1,200 schools, community colleges in the United States attract a student body with remarkable economic, ethnic, and cultural diversity. They provide students with skills and foundational knowledge upon which successful professional careers and rewarding personal engagement can be built. This identity makes community colleges uniquely suited to teach global awareness and community building. Yet the development of peacebuilding and conflict resolution curricula is still a relatively new effort at these institutions. In "Peacebuilding in Community Colleges," David Smith underscores the importance of community colleges in strengthening global education and teaching conflict resolution skills. Enlisting contributions by twenty-three community college professionals, Smith has created a first-of-its-kind volume for faculty and administrators seeking to develop innovative and engaging peacebuilding… [Direct]
(2006). Determinants of Linguistic Human Rights Movements: An Analysis of Multiple Causation of LHRs Movements Using a Boolean Approach. Social Forces, v84 n4 p1937-1955 Jun. This paper applies a Boolean approach to examine the social background of movements for linguistic human rights. Predictive determinants to explain the occurrence of LHRs movements in this study included linguistic diversity within a country, literacy rate, population size, national income as an index of affluence, and the existence of a constitution supporting those rights. Data for 159 countries were collected and analyzed using a Boolean analysis. The result of the analysis shows that there are four combinations of economic and linguistic conditions that cause LHRs movements in a country. A further analysis with varying cutoff values reveals that the combination GD (higher gross income AND linguistic diversity) is the \strongest\ condition for LHRs movements in the four combinations…. [Direct]
(1984). Emerging Issues in Migration, Emigration, and Immigration. Journal of Intergroup Relations, v12 n3 p48-61 Fall. Reports on findings presented at three workshops on immigration and emigration at a 1982 conference on human rights. Addresses topics ranging from rights of refugees and migrants to philosophies of cultural pluralism. (KH)…
(1971). General Session 2: Speaker to be Announced. Audiovisual Instruction, 16, 6, 13-15, Jun/Jul 71. A brief review of a videotaped speech by comedian Bill Cosby entitled, A Human Right: The Right to Learn,\ presented at the annual convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (AK)…
(1989). Literacy: A Citizenship Participation Issue. TESL Talk, v19 n1 p80-85. Canada's ratification of the United Nations international human rights instruments demonstrates that literacy is not only an educational right but also a necessary prerequisite for effective participation in Canada's advanced society. (Author/CB)…
(2006). From Liberation to Human Rights: Challenges for Teachers of the "Burakumin" in Japan. Race, Ethnicity & Education, v9 n2 p183-202 Jul. The "Burakumin," a culturally defined minority group among ethnic Japanese, face continued discrimination even as effective national policies and programs offering educational and social equity are terminated. Based on interviews and conversations in Japan with activist educators, teachers and administrators, the schooling for children of "Burakumin" families is discussed in the context of human rights education and the changing economic and social context of urban Japan. Isolation combined with ostracization in a country where difference is seldom discussed have enabled the average Japanese to accept Government pronouncements of the eradication of discrimination. However, historical stereotypes, liberation struggles, and ambivalence about cultural identity continue to present teachers with difficult challenges in attaining the national goal of equal educational opportunity for all children…. [Direct]
(1999). Social Justice Report, 1999. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, HREOC. Report to the Attorney-General as Required by Section 46C(1)(a) of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986. This report examines the disadvantaged and marginalized condition of the Indigenous peoples of Australia as a human rights issue, focusing on issues concerning Indigenous young people. Permeating the report is the idea that this disadvantage arises from a history of overt and structural discrimination and that special efforts and differential treatment are necessary and appropriate to redress disadvantage and achieve equality in Australian society. Chapter 1 examines current themes in debates about Indigenous policy: moving beyond welfare dependency, accountability of Indigenous programs and services, Indigenous participation in government decisions that affect them, and the national reconciliation process. Chapter 2 profiles Indigenous youth, aged 15-29, and aspects of disadvantage. Demographic and other data include population size, age structure, income, unemployment, overcrowded housing, participation in secondary and higher education, native language use, birth rates,… [PDF]
(1993). Civic Education: Teaching about Society, Passing on Values. Report of the Council of Europe Teachers' Seminar (57th, Donaueschingen, Germany, October 12-17, 1992). This seminar report describes debates that centered around three civic educational themes of identity/citizenship, civics and school life, and the study of the European Convention on Human Rights along with ideas presented at the opening of the seminar and general conclusions at the end. The discussion of civic education led to a range of solutions that included 13 human rights propositions to form the basis of civic education. The first section detailed identity and citizenship as the two key concepts of civic education. The concepts covered three types of meanings: (1) that which is imposed and attributed; (2) that which is built up; and (3) that which can be changed. The seminar focused on school life and dealt with the development of democratic attitudes, learning the rules of community life, and training strategies for teachers. The European Convention on Human Rights as a resource was emphasized. Teaching approaches describe rewriting the text, an explanation of the words,…
(2011). John Locke and the Myth of Race in America: Demythologizing the Paradoxes of the Enlightenment as Visited in the Present. Philosophical Studies in Education, v42 p101-112. The English Enlightenment philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) is one of the most prominent figures in the development of liberal Anglo-American political thought. Locke's writings had a significant influence on the American Revolution and founding principles of the United States in fundamental ways. The author argues that Locke's influence is pervasive not only in American political ideology but also in the contradictions between stated ideals and institutions that have sustained inequality and oppression in a land that values equality and freedom. Max Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno in their work on the Enlightenment note that every effort to rationalize the foundations of civil society also embedded those foundations in ideology and mythology. One of the myths that emerged out of the scientific revolution and effort to ground human progress in reason was the fiction of multiple races of humankind. This idea, while not uncommon in Anglo-European thought by the 19th century, became… [PDF]
(2000). Culture of Peace, Human Rights, and Living Together: The Significance and Prospects of Education in a Global Age Context. Asia Pacific Education Review, v1 n1 p13-22 Dec. Describes development of Global Age from Japanese perspective; discusses peace and human-rights activities of the United Nations Economic and Social Council; describes development of individual character and universal attributes; explains Japanese concept of living together; discusses awareness problems related to Japan's relationship with other Asian countries, especially Korea; describes implications for education. (Contains 20 references.) (PKP)…
(1977). Humane Education and Some Implications. International Understanding at School, 32, 3-8, 77. The article explores some of the relationships between the value of humane education and those of education concerning the environment and education for international understanding and respect of human rights. (Author)…
(1970). Cleaver's Vision of America and the New White Radical: A Legacy of Malcolm X. Negro Amer Lit Forum, 4, 1, 12-21, Mar '70. Traces the development of Malcolm X's and Eldridge Cleaver's points of view as to the proper focus of attention in the struggle toward full human rights for the black American. (RD)…