[hr-education-na] Civics Channel to support citizenship education in Canada

Human Rights Education is part of our civics and citizenship education
curriculum in Canada.  It is perhaps not well defined, but it is there.
(Perhaps it cannot be truly taught.  Perhaps it can just be learned by
experience.)

List members will be interested in the new Civics Channel site we have set
up, to support citizenship education in Canada:
www.civicschannel.com/indexc.php

Detailed notes on the Ontario Grade 10 curriculum are here:
http://www.civicschannel.com/research/ccorrelation/10ontcivics1.php

We take the approach of looking at human rights in the context of the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, drafted in 1947 by Canadian jurist John Humphrey.

We encourage teachers and students to explore the issue in global terms on
the web, through such sites as the excellent Reporters Without Borders
Internet portal.

For an example, see our Weblog at:
http://www.civicschannel.com/cblog/index.php


Alastair Sweeny PhD
Executive Director
The Civics Channel
3-291 Kirchoffer Ave.,
Ottawa ON K2A 1Y1
613-725-1956
info@civicschannel.com




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