This week's postings:
1. Free Copies of WorldView Magazine for Teachers!
2. Four New Teaching Modules on Child Labor
3. "Tales from Real Life": Documentary on Asylum Seekers from The
Epidavros Project, Inc.
4. Global Citizen Awards from EFTours
Dear GlobalEdNews subscribers,
Just a quick note to let you know that the audio portion of Global
TeachNet's "Kids Around the World" website is now up and running! On this
new website, you and your students can look at photos of kids from
developing countries engaged in daily activities, read English transcripts
of interviews with those children, and now listen to the interviews as
well! Hear kids around the world talk about their lives in their own
languages, such as Spanish, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Romanian, and more.
Visit "Kids Around the World" at http://www.katw.org .
Ellen Frierson
Global TeachNet Intern
National Peace Corps Association
mailto:gtnintern@rpcv.org
http://www.globalteachnet.org
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1. Free Copies of WorldView Magazine for Teachers!
The National Peace Corps Association is offering free copies of recent
issues of our quarterly publication, WorldView. We will send free sets of
forty magazines for the cost of shipping. WorldView magazine has news,
commentary, and stories about the developing world, and is an excellent
resource for high school or even middle school classrooms, as well as a
great addition to any school library. Free lesson plans to go with
articles from WorldView are also available online at
http://www.rpcv.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=268.
Below is a list of available issues of the magazine and a few of the
topics addressed in those issues:
Vol 15-4 (Fall 2002)
Bulding a dam in Uganda
Gypsy prom
Vol 16-1 (Winter 2003)
An essay on the Kashmir violence
In praise of nomads
Mugham mastery
17-1 (March-May 2004)
Negotiating peace between Ethiopia & Eritrea
Secretary of State Colin Powell in Central America
A letter from a town Côte d'Ivoire
Profile of a disappeared Muslim son of Uzbekistan
17-2 (June-August 2004)
Rethinking Peace Corps
Muslim schools in southern Thailand
Bill Moyers pays tribute to Sargent Shriver
Sierra Club's Carl Pope
17-3 (September-October 2004)
Profile of Molly Melching and the NGO that is ending female
circumcision in Senegal
How Yemen deals with terrorists
How Peace Corps evacuated Morocco
A murder trail in Tonga
To order your free package of forty issues of WorldView, send an email to
David Arnold at mailto:pubs@rpcv.org . Indicate which issues you would
like. We will then send you a message with the cost of shipping. Find out
more about WorldView at http://www.worldviewmagazine.com .
Members of GlobalTeachNet also receive WorldView magazine as a membership
benefit. To join Global TeachNet, visit http://www.globalteachnet.org and
click on "Join GTN" in the green box at the bottom of the page.
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2. Four New Teaching Modules on Child Labor
>From the North American Human Rights Education listserv:
Dear teachers, friends and colleagues,
I am delighted to share with you four brand new modules on child labor
that were developed as part of the Child Labor Research Initiative at the
University of Iowa Center for Human Rights. The modules focus on the four
worst forms of child labor identified in ILO Convention 182 (Convention on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor). All modules are authored by experienced
teachers who have been teaching about human rights throughout their
professional careers. The four modules are:
"Child Slavery" by Beverly Witwer
http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=2246
"Child Soldiers" by Helen Finken
http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=2248
"Hazardous Child Labor" by Lois Crowley and Marlene Johnson
http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=2247
"Child Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation" by Jeanine Redlinger
http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=2249
Each module contains 4-6 lesson plans and each lesson is highly flexible
and adaptable. NCSS standards were used to guide the development of these
modules and they are designed so that teachers can teach a lesson within
1-2 class periods to introduce the subject or fully integrate the
materials into the classrooms throughout the year. Teachers can also
combine different lesson plans or combine modules for a more comprehensive
introduction. We have found that child labor is an extremely powerful
issue to introduce to students because they are able to relate and
internalize the learning of this problem. And it creates the necessary
space to discuss larger human rights issues because solving this problem
requires us to examine other rights, including education, health care,
working conditions, participation, etc.
Chivy W. Sok
Project Director, Child Labor Research Initiative
Deputy Director, UI Center for Human Rights
Email: chivy5000@yahoo.com
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3. "Tales from Real Life": Documentary on Asylum Seekers from The
Epidavros Project, Inc.
>From the North American Human Rights Education listserv:
Camerini*Robertson and its sister non-profit organization, The Epidavros
Project, Inc., specialize in films that bring complex issues in the areas
of development, society and political analysis vividly alive.
One film, "Tales from Real Life," has memorable stand-alone stories for
classroom and discussion use for high school and beyond. "Tales from Real
Life" is also accompanied by an extensive teacher's guide. The stories are
left open-ended, crafted so that creative teachers and discussion leaders
will use them to initiate many unique conversations.
The Stories:
- A grandmother who was once a resistance fighter;
- a high school kid whose life was changed forever by an article he
wrote for his school
newspaper;
- an indigenous artist caught in a civil war;
- a political dissident who describes his unusual torture after a
midnight arrest;
- a woman whose story show how domestic violence can become political.
Each story opens the door to a universe of questions, and each can be
looked at in several ways.
Running time: Each story is 12 to 15 minutes long
Tales from Real Life is accompanied by an extensive teacher's guide.
Visit our website at http://www.wellfoundedfear.org to place an order
online, or send a check or money order payable to "The Epidavros Project,
Inc." to:
Attn: Danielle Linzer
The Epidavros Project
141 West 28th Street, 6-B
New York, New York 10001
(212) 594-2127
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4. Global Citizen Awards from EFTours
>From www.eftours.com:
It's that time of year again to apply for the Global Citizen Awards, EF
Educational Tours annual essay contest that asks high school seniors to
think about and describe in their own words what it means to be a global
citizen.
This year, students are asked to reflect upon and answer the following:
"Describe a specific incident in your own community that has encouraged
you to live as a global citizen."
Twelve college-bound high school students—ten from the United States and
two from Canada—will be chosen as winners and will travel together to
Europe in early July.
For more information and to apply, visit
https://www.eftours.com/public/learn/GlobalCitizen/
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