Cloud, Fred (1987). Human Rights: Are We Turning Back the Clock?. Journal of Intergroup Relations, v15 n2 p3-10 Sep. Deep divisions in public opinion on human rights goals are transforming the American population into two societies that are separate and unequal. Halting the transformation requires long-term programs that educate the public about racism, communicate to increase dialogue about human rights goals, advocate changes in legislation, and celebrate cultural and racial diversity. (PS)…

(1973). Palestine Refugees Today. Human Rights Day: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary. Newsletter Number 76. A special issue of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) newsletter relates the ideals of human rights as carried out for the Palestine refugees. An overview of the publication and its contents is followed by a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Three articles–The Right to Education, An Adequate Standard of Living, and Motherhood and Childhood–review generally the events of the past 25 years in the Near East and specifically the refugee problems since 1948. A teacher's guide, accompanying the newsletter, explains the focus of human rights for use by children aged 9-12 years and offers suggestions for classroom applications. Specific projects related to human rights are described, including plays, murals, maps, and fairs. Ways in which the themes of racial discrimination and minority rights may be drawn into this unit of study are also noted. (KSM)… [PDF]

Goldstein, Ricki; Sarna, Shirley (1991). Let's Talk about Human Rights. Students' Books 1-3. Teacher's Guides, Books 1-2. These documents are designed to introduce students to some of the fundamental concepts, principles, and values of human rights and to a basic knowledge of human rights legal instruments as they apply to daily lives. Student handbook 1 is a series of lessons and activities that stimulate reading and discussion around the following ideas: What is a human being? What is a human right? Rights and Responsibilities; A Canadian human rights story: Nellie McClung; The Diary of Anne Frank; and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Background and Application. Student handbook 2 features five case studies, each of which presents a situation where an individual's rights have been denied or infringed upon. The case studies raise the issues of discrimination based upon a disability, age, HIV status, religion, and race. Student handbook 3 invites students to write some of their own thoughts and ideas concerning how some of the human rights principles raised by the curriculum may apply to…

Chan, Jennifer (2007). Between Efficiency, Capability and Recognition: Competing Epistemes in Global Governance Reforms. Comparative Education, v43 n3 p359-376 Aug. This article examines global governance reforms as a site of contestation between three different \truths\/epistemes (the market, human rights principles, and cultural identity) in terms of the competing principles of efficiency, capability, and recognition. Nancy Fraser's conceptions of participation parity and a dialogical approach of recognition to examine diverse global governance reform proposals are used to argue that a neo-liberal developmentalist approach (Washington Consensus at the core and development on the edges) and a human developmentalist approach (human rights on top without challenging a neo-liberal core)–both built upon a paradigm of redistribution–fall short of addressing the crisis of recognition. What is needed is more than a question of more funds, but rather a fundamental recognition and representation of the majority developing world as equal partners in global governance. Education in postdevelopmentalism takes on the broader significance of cultural… [Direct]

Wright, Tiffany (2009). Leadership for Safe and Inclusive Schools: An Examination of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Educators' Perceptions of School Climate. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, The Johns Hopkins University. Effective school leaders work to assist students and staff alike in feeling safe within the school environment. Educators need to feel safe in order to successfully carry out their professional responsibilities. Historically and presently, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) educators have felt unsafe in school settings, even though being honest about their sexuality has been shown to increase their effectiveness in the classroom. While LGBT issues have been increasingly included in the scope of teaching and learning over the past decade, schools continue to struggle to provide safe environments for LGBT staff. This study examined national data collected through the 2007 National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) K-12 Educators Survey (Smith, Esposito, Wright, & Reilly, 2006) to determine which factors impact feelings of safety and outness for LGBT educators. Seven factors (homophobia, principal support, policies of human rights, policies of bullying… [Direct]

Hanson, Jarice; Miller, Christine (1983). Network Television Coverage of Human Rights in Central America during the Carter Administration, 1977-1980. A study examined the United States television networks' news coverage of human rights in Central America during the administration of President Jimmy Carter to determine whether the President's hopes for greater media coverage of human rights issues were acknowledged by network newscasts. A content analysis of "Television News Index and Abstracts" was conducted for weeknight reports of the three major network newscasts. The results showed that the number of news stories related to Central America in Carter's first year was surprisingly low, given the amount of political unrest in Nicaragua and Panama. In 1978, the number of stories related to human rights increased considerably. The number of reports from the field decreased in 1979, probably due to the events in Nicaragua as American journalists tried to leave the country. By 1980, all of the NBC and CBS newscasts covering Central America referred to some aspect of human rights. The analysis showed that the number of…

Shiman, David A. (1993). Teaching Human Rights: Grades 7 through Adult. This curriculum resource on human rights is rooted in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and seeks to help students understand the issues involved. Using the rights categories suggested by the Universal Declaration, this book offers new ways of teaching about familiar themes. The book contains activities to encourage students to compare across cultures and to challenge them to examine their own society and to reflect on their own lives. There are generic human rights activities that can be used for any part of the world to be studied, as well as those dealing specifically with examples from Chile, the Peoples Republic of China, Kenya, South Africa, and the former Soviet Union. (EH)…

Riley, Tasha; Ungerleider, Charles (2008). Preservice Teachers' Discriminatory Judgments. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, v54 n4 p378-387 Win. Having pursued policies of human rights and multiculturalism, Canadians regard themselves as tolerant. Yet some critics say that when it comes to Aboriginals, Canadians seem xenophobic and discriminatory. This study is the first empirical test of whether Canadian preservice teachers' judgments about the performance of Aboriginal students are discriminatory. Fifty preservice teachers were asked to assess the records of 24 students and recommend their placement in remedial, conventional, or advanced programs. Preservice teachers systemically devalued the performance of students whom they were led to believe were of Aboriginal ancestry in comparison with their non-Aboriginal counterparts with identical student records…. [Direct]

Winton, Mark A. (2008). Dimensions of Genocide: The Circumplex Model Meets Violentization Theory. Qualitative Report, v13 n4 p605-629 Dec. The purpose of this study is to examine the use of Olson's (1995, 2000) family therapy based circumplex model and Athens' (1992, 1997, 2003) violentization theory in explaining genocide. The Rwandan genocide of 1994 is used as a case study. Published texts, including interviews with perpetrators, research reports, human rights reports, and court transcripts were analyzed. The use of both theories was consistent with the data and resulted in a greater understanding of the genocide. Rwanda moved to a rigidly enmeshed society during the genocide with the perpetrators going through the violentization process. Suggestions for further research are provided…. [Direct]

Starkey, Hugh (2008). Diversity and Citizenship in the Curriculum. London Review of Education, v6 n1 p5-10 Mar. This article comments on keynote speeches given by Keith Ajegbo and Audrey Osler. The programme of study for citizenship derived from the Crick report and did not emphasise race equality and national unity for security. Osler argues that the Ajegbo review addressed teaching of ethnic, religious and cultural diversity but did not confront the inadequacies of British democracy or reassert social justice, a sense of shared humanity and a commitment to human rights. Proposing, let alone imposing, a definition of Britishness is futile, but it is possible to promote cosmopolitan patriotism supported by explicit principles, concepts and values…. [Direct]

Hill, Ian (2012). Evolution of Education for International Mindedness. Journal of Research in International Education, v11 n3 p245-261 Dec. This article attempts to trace the evolution of the concept of international mindedness from the 17th century until the present, using four aspects to focus the discussion: education and other trends, ease of interaction across frontiers, determinants of international mindedness, and international mindedness in practice. Education trends start with the lack of any reading and writing instruction for the masses in the 17th century through compulsory schooling much later–based principally on the drilling of facts and memorization–and then progressive education ideas including critical thinking skills and intercultural understanding. Trade/slave routes and discovery voyages by land and sea were the initial impetus for crossing frontiers, and it was not until the latter half of the 20th century that international telephone calls and airline travel started to be within the reach of larger parts of the world's populations. From the beginning of the 21st century, the Internet and free… [Direct]

Hron, Benjamin (1998). Evolution of Human Rights in the Age of Biotechnology. Update on Law-Related Education, v22 n3 p14-17 Fall. Considers how biotechnology affects human-rights issues; in particular, the need for reexamining concerns about reproductive technology, the rights of indigenous peoples, and the rights of future generations. Maintains that the new areas for human-rights discussions, such as germ-line manipulation and genetic screening, are unprecedented concerns for the future. (CMK)…

Funge, Simon Peter (2013). Teaching Efficacy and Context: Integrating Social Justice Content into Social Work Education. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. Social work education programs accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) are expected to cultivate the knowledge and skills students require to competently challenge social injustices and advance social and economic justice in their professional practice (CSWE, 2008a). Because social work educators play a key role in this effort (Gil, 1998; Van Soest & Garcia, 2003), this study explored educators' beliefs have about their ability to fulfill this role. This exploration integrated teacher efficacy theory (Tschannen-Moran, Woolfolk Hoy, & Hoy, 1998) and ecological systems theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, 1994) to determine to what extent the educational context as well as the personal and professional characteristics of educators affected these beliefs. Over 500 full-time social work educators responded to a request to complete a 56-item online survey instrument regarding their efficacy beliefs about their ability to integrate social justice content into their… [Direct]

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (1999). Linguistic Human Rights–Are You Naive, or What?. TESOL Journal, v8 n3 p6-12 Aut. Suggests that the education of most minorities, particularly in the West, is organized in ways that counteract sound scientific evidence and violate linguistic human rights, especially in relation to the wrong choice of medium of education. Substantiates this claim with recent developments in linguistic human rights in education, with special focus on the United States. (Author/VWL)…

Sparks, Elizabeth (1994). Human Rights Violations in the Inner City: Implications for Moral Educators. Journal of Moral Education, v23 n3 p315-32. Contends that urban violence involves not only acts against individuals but also systemic violence perpetrated against the ethnic-minority poor. Argues that this systemic violence is a form of human rights violation. Maintains that moral educators should utilize a human rights perspective in curriculum planning. (CFR)…

Allan, Carol; Roberts, Gayle; Wells, Kristopher (2007). Understanding Gender Identity in K-12 Schools. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, v4 n4 p119-129. Educators concerned with diversity, equity, and human rights in schools share their personal and professional narratives as impetus for developing suggestions and strategies designed to help teachers, students, and administrators deepen their understandings of gender identity educational issues in an effort to support transitioning teachers in K-12 schools. (Contains 6 notes.)… [Direct]

Conley, Lloyd; du Plessis, Pierre; Loock, Coert (2007). The Right to Education: Are We Facing the Challenges?. Educational Research and Reviews, v2 n8 p198-208 Aug. The Constitution provides the ground rules to create obligations on the state and to transform the education system by introducing human rights in line with the best developed democracies. This article is not about state-compelled school attendance, but rather the observe: the right to attend school. So while the right to attend school is part of the answer, it is far from the whole answer to the question of the right to education. Is it in the best interest of the child if there are still many corrupt practices in the public school sector? Whose rights are we talking about- those of the child or his or her parents? The mere fact that enforcement mechanisms is not an effective tool of measuring the exercise of the right in education. The article first sets out the constitutional framework in South Africa so far as it bears on the right to education, including whether a constitutional right to education can be implied by the Bill of Rights. It will then probe the extent to which… [PDF]

Lord, Janet E. (2002). Understanding the Role of an International Convention on the Human Rights of People with Disabilities: An Analysis of the Legal, Social, and Practical Implications for Policy Makers and Disability and Human Rights Advocates in the United States. White Paper. This White Paper by the National Council on Disability urges the support and participation of American policymakers and organizations representing people with disabilities in the drafting of an international human rights treaty specifically addressing the rights of people with disabilities. Following an executive summary and an introductory section, the first section provides background information on disability law in the United States and human rights for people with disabilities within the international human rights system. The fourth section offers suggestions for addressing the human rights of people with disabilities in sections urging a paradigm shift in which "needs" become rights and discussion of universality and international human rights law. The fifth section proposes an international convention on the rights of people with disabilities with discussion of transformative participation in an international human rights treaty-making process, promoting… [PDF]

Ennals, Martin (1981). Free Flow of Human Rights Information: The Need for a Systematic Communications Network. International Social Science Journal, v33 n1 p72-81. Proposes creation of a human rights international documentation system which would be under the jurisdiction of an international organization (probably the United Nations) and which would facilitate and link current and future activities directed towards collection, storage, and retrieval of human rights information. (Author/DB)…

David-West, Alzo (2013). North Korean Aesthetic Theory: Aesthetics, Beauty, and "Man". Journal of Aesthetic Education, v47 n1 p104-110 Spr. Aesthetics is not a subject usually associated with North Korea in Western scholarship, the usual tropes being autocracy, counterfeiting, drugs, human-rights abuse, famine, nuclear weapons, party-military dictatorship, Stalinism, and totalitarianism. Where the arts are concerned, they are typically seen as crude political propaganda. One British museum specialist writes that North Korean visual art is an "art under control," and one Russian historian insists that North Korean literature is devoid of the "beauty of language." As the short turns of phrase and value judgments indicate, there has been no real attempt in English to engage the North Korean aesthetic on descriptive terms. Through a reading of "Art Treatise," a collaborative work officially credited to leader Kim Jong Il, this essay descriptively identifies special problems of aesthetics, beauty, and "man" in North Korean aesthetic doctrine, which is derived from the nationalist… [Direct]

Blaser, Arthur W. (1981). Economic and Political Theories of Organization: The Case of Human Rights INGOs. This paper reviews research on international nongovernmental organizations dealing with human rights (INGOs), and interprets this research in light of the overlap of the fields of organizational theory (including group theory) and human rights. The purpose is to contribute toward a useful exchange between social scientists who seek to explain organizational behavior and scholars who seek to understand, explain, and/or improve international nongovernmental human rights activity. The discussion focuses on five major topics: (1) an overview of the nature and activities of five INGOs (Amnesty International, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, International League for Human Rights, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the World Peace Council) and an introduction to various theories of organization; (2) consideration of group theory, with emphasis on the work of David Truman: (3) analysis of political approaches to organization, based particularly on…

Eres, Figen (2010). Special Education in Turkey. Online Submission, US-China Education Review v7 n4 p94-100 Apr. The quality and the prevalence of education are the major indicators of the development of a society. It is a kind of human right to every person living in the society to be educated in a sufficient way. The education of the disabled people, a social reality in Turkey, is not sufficiently carried out. This paper aims at the education of the disabled people in Turkey. In order to mention about the education of the disabled people, this paper also mentions about the general characteristics of the disabled. The service of special education has not reached all the disabled, and the disabled and their families are not aware of the importance of the education. Only 90 thousand out of over one million disabled children receive the education. Disabled children continue their training in five groups: the sight impaired, the hearing impaired, the orthopedic impaired, the mentally impaired and children with long-term illness. Raising awareness is very important for all of the Turkish people. So… [PDF]

Daniels, Berenice (2010). Developing Inclusive Policy and Practice in Diverse Contexts: A South African Experience. School Psychology International, v31 n6 p631-643 Dec. Pre-1994, South Africa was a country riddled with inequality and discrimination stemming from the policy of "apartheid". Since 1994, there have been considerable efforts made to enable the country to move toward becoming non-racial and democratic, with a culture of human rights and social justice. One of the primary tasks of the new democratically elected government was a reform of the education system. Specialized Education was initially neglected, but then in 1996 a National Commission was appointed to investigate Special Needs in Education and Education Support Services, of which the author was one of the co-ordinators. The timeline for the full implementation of the resulting White Paper 6 on Inclusive Education is 20 years. Inclusive Education in South Africa aims to meet the needs of all learners by addressing barriers to learning, welcoming diversity and fostering maximum participation by all in the culture of the school. This article, based on the author's… [Direct]

Rafi, Mohammad (2010). Evaluating Training Cascade: A Methodology and Case Study. Educational Research and Reviews, v5 n2 p64-77 Feb. Training has increasingly turned into an important NGO tool for rural development in Asia and Africa. Such a use has made it essential to assess the impact of these training sessions. Again a good portion of these sessions are offered through cascades. There has been skepticism on the effectiveness of this mechanism. In response to the above need and skepticism, the paper assessed the effectiveness of training and the cascade under the Human rights and legal education (HRLE) program of Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee. A theoretical framework was developed and used for the assessment. The findings in a nutshell indicate that the training sessions considerably added not only to the knowledge of the trainees but also to their skill in conducting training. The knowledge and skill were successfully transferred from one level to the next training within the cascade. Above all, trainees develop an attitude to implement the knowledge and did that in the opportunities they received…. [PDF]

Jacobs, Leslie R.; Waldron-Moore, Pamela (2010). Gendered Inequity in Society and the Academy: Policy Initiatives, Economic Realities and Legal Constraints. Forum on Public Policy Online, v2010 n2. Of all the social constructs impacting the contemporary world, gender is perhaps the most pervasive and the most insidious. Its inequities creep into our everyday lives with impunity. Across the globe, gender construction has evoked challenge, undergone reform and, in some instances, transformed thinking in societies. Yet, for all the gains made by the international community and all the rights women have managed to claim, there is lingering paralysis in societal efforts to close the gender gap and view women's rights as human rights. Even more disturbing is the fact that the academy, despite its reservoir of intellectual potential to create space for feminist transformations, proceeds at a visibly lethargic pace towards this end. Research on gender inequity has consistently focused on variations in income, employment opportunities, and other resources between men and women. But little attention has been paid to those societal forces that sustain gendered inequity, namely policy… [PDF] [Direct]

Zambrano, Elias, Comp. (1989). Human Rights Resource Catalogue. This document provides information about 25 programs/brochures which focus on human rights topics. Specific topics include: (1) counselor preparation; (2) multicultural awareness; (3) abuse and neglect; (4) Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; (5) self-awareness; (6) human rights awareness and human rights of students; (7) cultural diversity; (8) parent/adolescent mediation; (9) corporal punishment in public schools; (10) refusal skills; (11) dropout prevention; (12) new immigrants; (13) substance abuse; (14) teenage pregnancy; (15) delinquency; (16) elimination/reduction of stereotyping or discrimination; and (17) single parenting. Intended audiences include community, counselors, counselor educators, students, parents, prospective counselors, public officials, school personnel, staff, and teachers. Programs are indexed according to program areas and intended audience. Each entry lists the school counseling association; a submitter name, address, and phone number; program name;…

Ferreira-Meyers, K.; Pitikoe, S. (2021). The Learning Experience of a Visually Impaired Learner Regarding Emergency Blended Teaching and Learning at a Higher Education Institution. Perspectives in Education, v39 n1 p340-352. Disability or impairment in general does not deprive one of the rights to basic human needs and care. However, often people with disabilities encounter barriers such as unfriendly infrastructure to access basic services such as education and health care. In this paper the authors explore the experiences of learners with visual impairment on the implementation of blended learning to thwart the challenges of COVID-19 in institutions of higher education. This narrative case study employed a telephonic semistructured interview guide to collect data on a visually impaired learner enrolled with the University of Eswatini (UNESWA). There were two research questions that the study sought answers for: what was the learning experience of a visually impaired learner regarding blended learning during COVID-19? And, how did a visually impaired learner cope academically during the emergency blended learning and teaching? The study found the following: a) incompatible devices; b) poor internet… [Direct]

Krzywkowski, Leo V. (1973). Re-Education for Human Rights. NJEA Review, 46, 9, 30, May 73. Article cites the need for teachers to be re-educated for Human Rights. (GB)…

Crick, Ruth Deakin; Hoskins, Bryony (2010). Competences for Learning to Learn and Active Citizenship: Different Currencies or Two Sides of the Same Coin?. European Journal of Education, v45 n1 p121-137 Mar. In the context of the European Union Framework of Key Competences and the need to develop indicators for European Union member states to measure progress made towards the \knowledge economy\ and \greater social cohesion\ both the learning to learn and the active citizenship competences have been highlighted. However, what have yet to be discussed are the links and the overlaps between these two competences. Based on the development of research projects on these two fields, this article will compare the two sets of competences, both qualitatively and quantitatively. It will describe how the values and dispositions that motivate and inform active citizenship and learning to learn are related to each other, both empirically and theoretically. Both these competences are tools for empowering individuals and giving them the motivation and autonomy to control their own lives beyond the social circumstances in which they find themselves. In the case of active citizenship, the ability to be… [Direct]

Gilbert, Sally; Shollenberger, Kathy (2001). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Declaration of Human Rights: A Simulation Activity. OAH Magazine of History, v15 n3 p35-36 Spr. Provides a brief background on Eleanor Roosevelt and the Declaration of Human Rights. Presents a lesson wherein students simulate the creation of the Declaration of Human Rights and consider the leadership skills of Eleanor Roosevelt. Explains that the activity requires three class periods and some student preparation before the lesson. (CMK)…