Human rights education and history

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Human rights education and history

• Amnesty
• Internationals
• approach

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What is human rights education?

• Knowledge
• Skills
• Attitudes

• Human rights education can be defined as
  education, training and information aimed at
  building a universal culture of human rights.
• A comprehensive education in human rights not
  only provides knowledge about human rights and
  the mechanisms that protect them, but also
  imparts the skills needed to promote, defend and
  apply human rights in daily life.
• Human rights education fosters the attitudes and
  behaviours needed to uphold human rights for all
  members of society.

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International Law
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(preamble) every individual and every organ of
society, keeping this Declaration constantly in
mind, shall strive by teaching and education to
promote respect for these rights and freedoms
Convention on the Rights of the Child (article
29) the education of the child shall be
directed to (b) The development of respect
for human rights and fundamental freedoms
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Principles of Human Rights Education

• Open-minded examination
• International/global dimension
• Positive value system (instead of focus on
  violations)
• Individual can make a difference!
• Action dimension
• Link topics to relevant UDHR articles
• Cultural diversity
• Focus on content as well as learning process
• Participation methods (cooperative learning, role
  play)
• Connect to peoples lived experience

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Human Rights and HistoryEducation

• Iconoclastic fury
• Hugo Grotius
• Michiel de Ruyter
• Slavery
• Child Labour
• Colonialism
• Aletta Jacobs
• Anne Frank
• Srebrenica
• Multicultural society

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Analogies (1)
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Analogies (2)
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Prejudice
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Prejudice
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Prejudice
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Action dimension
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Analogies (3)
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