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Human Rights Day!

November 12, 2007 | |

In August, Scott had this post…Dangerously Irrelevant: Not so thrilling? That post that got me started thinking about Human Rights Day. It’s coming up on December 10th, so let’s plan now. Why? Well, lets look:

Wes is concerned about human rights, Value of blogs and citizen journalism demonstrated in Myanmar » Moving at the Speed of Creativity, but I say we can be more than citizen journalists, we can be world citizens and citizen advocates. Why?

Model Curriculum for Human Rights and Genocide - Free Downloads (CA Dept of Education), it’s a state standard!

Look, at more people concerned about human rights, incorporated subversion - education, media, community » Blog Archive » Well worth watching And James says he tries to stay out of politics, but look at this: incorporated subversion - education, media, community » Blog Archive » Free Burma

So, I made this, Pageflakes - Human Rights Day, to support educators teaching about Human Rights Day. Join me please. There are resources for educators, and links to information.

Here the battle plan:

  1. Tag posts, links, etc. with humanrightsday2007
  2. Does your state have a standard to teach about human rights, mine does, and yours might too! Look in the Social Studies standards, if students are supposed to learn about basic rights, this is part of that. Scott McLeod, if you could link to this post, and ask readers to send info on standards to me, it would be appreciated. I’m asking Doug Noon to link and share the philosophical support for teaching kids about human rights (social justice curriculum). Anyone else who can chime in on this, you’re welcome!
  3. Do you have students who are refugees? You may want to be careful about how they participate in this endeavor. If they are willing to share stories, they can be a resource to teach others, but they may have trauma issues, and if you do any of the letter writing activities you’ll have to be careful about having them participate. I’m asking Larry Ferlazzo to post in his blog about this and ask his community to share any stories from refugees that can be shared.
  4. Let people know about the project. I’m asking Brian Crosby,  Wes Fryer and James Farmer to give some link love about this.
  5. Everyone else, think about how you want to try to teach this. You don’t have to limit yourself to December 10th, and if you can’t get it together by then, don’t let the calendar dictate to you, do it later. As the shoe ad says, Just do it!

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3 Comments so far

  1.    Doug Noon on November 13, 2007 9:43 pm

    A worthwhile project. Thank you.

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  2.    Planning for Human Rights Day Participation: Dec 10th » Moving at the Speed of Creativity on November 13, 2007 9:45 pm

    [...] Mercer has created a Pageflakes portal for Human Rights Day, which is coming up in a month. Alice is calling on educators and learners around the globe to get involved, tagging posts [...]

  3.    Classroom Displays » Classroom Displays for International Human Rights Day on November 15, 2007 7:21 am

    [...] Alice is blogging about Human Rights Day which is on December 10th. The focus for the last 3 years has been on education : .. focus on primary and secondary education, through integrating human rights issues into curricula, changing educational processes and teaching methods and, most importantly, improving the environment in which education takes place. [...]

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