Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education:
Teaching for Human Rights: Grades 5-10

 

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| Contents |
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4Appendix 1 |

| Appendix 2 part 1 | Appendix 2 part 2 | Appendix 2 part 3  |


Foreword 

 

This is the third volume in the Human Rights Commission's Education Series. The Series is designed to provide resource manuals for human rights educators.

This manual is for upper primary and secondary school teachers (Grades or Years five to ten). It is a revised version of Teaching for human rights: activities for schools, and like that book provides many and varied activities, grouped under a number of issue-headings, for exploring a comprehensive range of human rights questions.

In 1985, more than 150 teachers and schools took part in a Commission program, run Australia-wide, to develop resources and strategies for teaching for human rights. This was the first program of its kind in the world. About 120 of the classes involved were upper primary and secondary ones. Suggestions from the reports made by the participating teachers have been collated here, and in addition, edited versions of fifteen reports have been appended in their entirety. These describe how a number of teachers approached their tasks in detail.

The most important finding of the program was a general, not a specific, one however. Over and over again it was shown conclusively that it is possible to teach for humane values in an objective way. This is a finding of extraordinary significance and one the Series amply documents.


 
 

| Contents |
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4Appendix 1 |

| Appendix 2 part 1 | Appendix 2 part 2 | Appendix 2 part 3  |

 

Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education:
Teaching for Human Rights: Grades 5-10