| In this section, you will find three manuals outlining very different approaches to the implementation of human rights schooling - a more theoretical UNESCO guide, a more legalistic and declarationist approach by ActionAid, and a more pragmatic, activist-oriented handbook by Katarina Tomaševski. By no means do these approaches have to be differentiated - it is possible to formulate a unique approach based upon a number of perspectives. Only you know what approach is right for your institution.
UNESCO: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Human Rights Education for All
This publication is a joint UNESCO and UNICEF framework for the realisation of children's right to education and rights within education. The publication brings together the current thinking and practice on human rights-based approach in the education sector. It presents key issues and challenges in rights-based approaches and provides a framework for policy and programme development from the level of the school up to the national and international levels.
ActionAid: Education Rights: A Guide for Practitioners and Activists
This guide is a pragmatic handbook that provides nuts and bolts of HRBA implementation on numerous levels. It focuses on six strategic areas that are central to (and provide a framework for) HRBA to education, including: understanding and securing the right to education working with excluded groups; financing education; promoting citizen participation in education; securing rights in education; advancing a full "Education for All" agenda. Each section begins with a brief overview of key issues to be considered and then discusses a range of activities which could be developed within a scheme of work. Short practical examples are given, from a wide range of countries. The majority of the activities focus on work at the local level, but national and international links are also discussed. Within each section two or three areas are analysed in more detail.
Katarina Tomasevski: Manual on Rights-Based Education: Global Human Rights Requirements Made Simple
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Katarina Tomaševski, provides a more legalistic and declarationist approach to HRBA. The aim of this manual is to provide an easily-referenced, one-stop guide to rights-based education by explaining international human rights documents while drawing on numerous country-specific examples. It presents the key human rights as they relate to children, parents and governments, and the corresponding obligations, especially of governments, that must be met to fulfil those rights, while summarising and analysing the major human rights treaties and conventions from the perspective of education. Chapters include "Integrating Human Rights in Education: What and How", "Making Education Available", "Making Education Accessible", "Making Education Acceptable", "Making Education Adaptable", "Key Issue on the Micro Level", "Human Rights Questions on the Macro Level", "Looking Ahead", and "Bibliography". The manual is intended as a reference tool for policy-makers and practitioners in education.
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