Dear members, HREA will be organizing two introductory workshops on HRE at Amnesty International's Northeast Regional Conference on November 13 & 14, 2004 in Boston. Please find further information below. --------------- WORKSHOPS ON HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION Boston, November 13, 2004 This workshop takes place during the Amnesty International Northeast Regional Conference on November 13 & 14, 2004 at Boston University. INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION (11:45 - 1:15) Join an expert in human rights education by participating in an engaging human rights lesson that can be used with youth.We will be introduced to the following topics and related resources: - international human rights standards - definitions of human rights education - models and pedagogies associated with HRE - international policies related to human rights education. INTEGRATING CURRENT HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES INTO THE CLASSROOM (3:45-5:15) A number of contemporary issues, such as the Sudan crisis, have human rights dimensions that can be brought into the classroom. We will discuss some of these topics and ways for integrating them into our teaching. Resources will be provided and suggested. Facilitator: Felisa Tibbitts, director and co-founder of Human Rights Education Associates (HREA). In the first half of the 1990s, she worked with Ministries of Education and human rights NGOs in developing new human rights curricula in the post-totalitarian societies of Central and Eastern Europe. Ms. Tibbitts has helped to support local capacity building through national programs in Romania, Albania, Estonia, Ukraine, Croatia, Morocco and China. Ms. Tibbitts has developed several practical manuals related to evaluation, street law-type program development, and curriculum, which can be found on the HREA website (www.hrea.org). Tuition, fee, lodging: There is a $25 registration fee for the Amnesty International Northeast Regional Conference; however, all workshops are free. You can register at http://www.amnestyusa.org/events/northeastern/regionalconference.html. For further information specifically about the workshops, please contact: Diana Hughes HREA PO Box 382396 Cambridge, MA 02238 Tel: +1 978 341-0200 Fax: +1 978 341-0201 E-mail: dhughes@hrea.org Web: http://www.hrea.org/ ======== North American Human Rights Education listserv ======== Send mail intended for the list to <hr-education-na@hrea.org>. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education-na/markup/maillist.php If you have problems (un)subscribing, contact <owner-hr-education-na@hrea.org>. **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
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