[hr-education] Re: Right to Education research project

Dear Ms Asher,

If we talk about Serbia, you may find interesting the following
information:

1. UNICEF, UNESCO, Open society Serbia and Open Institute Hungary
supported an evaluation of the Civic education in elementary and high
schools in Serbia (that was introduced as an optional subject in 2001).
The evaluation was conducted by Alan Smith, Susan Fountain and Hugh
McLean. If you are interested to have the whole document, you can contact
the Ministry of education of Serbia or UNICEF Belgrade office (Ms Svetlana
Marojevic, smarojevic@unicef.org).

2. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Belgrade office is supporting an
expert consultation for mainstreaming human rights education in primary
and secondary schools in Serbia. The general purpose of this consultancy
is to provide assistance to the Ministry of Education in Serbia for better
introducing of human rights into all programming in elementary and
secondary schools. The UNHCHR has engaged Ms Nevena Vuckovic Sahovic for
this consultancy (President of the Child Rights Centre Belgrade and Member
of the Child Rights Committee). We expect the report to be completed by
the end of January. Based on conclusions and recommendations, the Child
Rights Centre should develop kind of tool (indicators) for introducing and
monitoring of human rights principles in education system (methods,
cirrucula, in-service training, etc.).

Best regards,
Vesna Dejanovic
Child Rights Centre Belgrade
Info-sector coordinator



On 20 Nov 2003, Beth Asher <b.asher@ibe.unesco.org> wrote:

>
> The Right to Education Project is undertaking a research activity into the
> implementation of human rights education (HRE), in primary and secondary
> formal education, to explore the impact of increasing global attention on
> the promotion of human rights in and through education. The research is
> being conducted in cooperation with the International Bureau of Education
> - UNESCO.
>
> Educational material that labels itself as HRE, or which purports to teach
> human rights principles, must be able to withstand assessment from a human
> rights perspective.  Based on this premise, we are interested in learning
> of any independent evaluations of formal educational subjects or
> materials, meant to teach human rights principles, whether designated as
> HRE or under another banner, whether as part of an HRE subject-specific
> course or integrated otherwise into the curriculum.  We would be delighted
> to hear about existing or ongoing evaluations at the regional,
> sub-regional, national or local levels.
>



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