[hr-education] Re: Needs in the HRE field

HRE activities in Chile, like in other countries of Latin America, have
different needs: ones that are related to more conceptual and political
aspects and other that refer to more technical and practical issues.

Chile as well other countries are undergoing process of
re-democratization. Democracy expressed in a day-to-day life is an
important need in order for HRE to find an appropriate atmosphere to be
developed. The anti-democratic tensions and contradiction are serious
obstacles to HRE.

In the technical and practical aspects, in my opinion, one of the main
needs are the training of teachers. In our context teachers are not well
prepared, not only in the formal aspects (the national and international
instruments of human rights legislation) but also in the methodological
aspects.

In addition there is a need to create materials that will relate in a very
close way the content and skills of the curriculum to human rights. This
functional contact is very important in order not to separate the
curriculum from HRE.

One field that should be taken in consideration is HRE as a lifelong
education process using the mass media. There are not enough mass media
messages that cope with human rights.

Abraham


Abraham Magendzo
Santiago, Chile



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