Added November 24, 2009: HREA’a Newsletter: Go to Launch of Portal for Human Rights Schools.
Launched (newly) by HREA.org as part of their different Networks, on a renewed page (the old page)
Linked on our blogs with The Human Rights Education Associates HREA.
Launch of Portal for Human Rights Schools: HREA is very pleased to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child with the launch of a new web portal to promote understanding and application of a human rights-based approach to schooling. This approach is concerned with the organisation of learning so that it is reflective of human rights principles and promotes understanding.
Approaches to human rights-based schooling; Case studies: Schools implementing the HRBA; Documentation and evaluation;
Related e-learning courses: Child Rights Programming; Human Rights-Based Programming; Emerging practices;
Related resource: the Global Human Rights Education Listserv; HREA’s accessibility and FAQs; HRBA’s Theoretical Roots;
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(About) Portal for Human Rights Schools: The Portal for Human Rights Schools offers resources for schools, policy makers, educators, students, and individuals interested in the implementation of a human rights-based approach (HRBA) to schooling.
A human rights-based approach to schooling is concerned with the organisation of learning so that it is reflective of human rights principles and promotes understanding and cherishing of the human rights framework.
The aims of this portal are:
- to provide viewpoints on the theoretical underpinnings of the HRBA;
- to present a range of HRBA practices that are emerging in schools worldwide;
- to encourage « best practices » in the documentation and evaluation of HRBA by sharing resources dedicated to examining the most pressing issues in evaluating human rights education.
HREA recognises the flexible and evolving nature of HRBA and seeks to draw on a number of perspectives to show how the human rights-based approach to schooling can be implemented in a way that is sensitive to the cultural, social, economic, and political variants that are specific to each school.