[hr-education] Re: Working definition of HRE

Dear Shula & Colleagues

This was sure the beginning of a discourse. First, may I say your
definition on human rights education and human rights educator is
"watertight."

So far I have read several suggestion. I should add that some of the
proposed suggestions are already considered in your definition. For
example Mr. Hanneman Samuel's contribution of level of perception or what
he called awareness, that is: submission, passivity, defeatism, limited
initiative and militancy -- these levels have been adequately covered in
your definition when you say: "Human rights education for social and
economical transformation is a process of learning that evokes critical
thinking and systematic analysis."

I believe to critically change the negative paradigm presented by Mr.
Hanneman in the form of "awareness levels" is to provoke critical thinking
and analysis.

You equally covered the scope very well. When you talked about "gender"
and " holistic." However, for practical purposes, what Sladjana Kocevska
said about enlarging the scope to reach children and youth is very
important.

As an admirer of psychology I know that our human development are governed
by --to quote Stephen R. Covey in his book The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People page 74-- "the experimental, or that which happens to us;
or the creative that which we bring into existence and the attitudinal; or
our response in difficult circumstance such as terminal illness."
According to Stephen Covey, it is these three shape our perception. People
become abusers because they have been abused. People infringe other
people's rights because they do not know others rights and their own
rights.

Therefore, it is my contribution that human rights education should remain
a tool to provoke critical thinking and analysis of social, economic and
political life and to include the mental perception of the stakeholders.

It is my submission that human rights education be from our cradle to our
grave--for human rights education is the education for life. It's purposes
should be to mitigate and not to react.


Kind regards,

Adamsky

Adam H. Adam
Centre for Minority Rights Development - CEMIRIDE
Kenya



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