Human rights learning through social studies (Oct 2009)

Human rights learning through social studies (Oct 2009)

There are powerful arguments for human rights to be a central to the teaching of Social Studies, according to a new CD-based resource to be launched at next week's SocCon 2009. "The social sciences learning area is about how societies work and how people can participate as critical, active, informed, and responsible citizens.

The human rights framework is a set of cross-culturally negotiated international agreements about the rights and responsibilities of all human beings and how societies should work to address them." Made possible by the Global Education Fund the CD includes social inquiry templates, Powerpoint presentations for teachers, and human rights learning activities and slides that may be useful in the classroom for levels 4-5 of the New Zealand Curriculum. Email the Facilitation Team for your copy.

Lower Moutere School has found picture books such as "We Are All Born Free" invaluable in their implementation of Human Rights in Education. As colleagues find publications that have proven to be useful in supporting human rights-based education we'll put them in our new Amazon-powered online bookshop.