[hr-education-na] Re: Strategies for introducing HRE into primary and secondary school

Hello everyone,

Just a thought: The issue of teaching of human rights just as another
subject may be what we need -- the subject then becomes the norm rather
than the exception to the rule.  If it is taught well, with depth and
understanding of the issues, then let's go for it.

There is also considerable work that is done on the grass roots level
(non-formal education) that must be incorporated into the classroom -- to
give the students/teachers a better grounding in the subject.

I definitely agree that by involving different models of teaching to the
teachers - including experience based learning - will the teachers
appreciate non traditional ways of approaching the subject matter.

Christine Baghdady
Lecturer
Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton, Canada



On June 29, 2004, Tamo Chattoapdhay <tamoghna@att.net> wrote:

>I could not agree more with Shula about the danger that schools might end
>up teaching human rights just as another subject.




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