[hr-education] HRE and patriarchy

Dear William,

Let me first say that I found the position paper: "Promoting the human
rights framework to eliminate the dominant patriarchal order" very
challenging. Particularly the questions that are been asked are very
important. The paper recovers Paulo Freire's position on oppression. In
addition to it, supports very much what has been said in the framework of
critical theory and critical pedagogy.

It is interesting to point out that Tomas Eglund (1986) -- analyzing
citizenship and political education in Sweden ("Curriculum as a Political
Problem: Changing Educational, with special reference to Citizenship
Education"; Uppsala Studies in Education 25) -- identifies three concepts
of politics and educational conceptions: patriarchal; scientific-rational;
democratic.

In relation to the question: "how human rights education can best be
developed and implemented to advance the critical awareness of patriarchy
and the knowledge of human rights as an alternative" -- I have some
suggestions, which I would like to offer for discussion:

    1.. First, it will be interesting to recover the methodology been used
for years, particularly in Latin America, by popular education.

    2.. Second, in the "Programa Interdisciplinario de Investigación en
Educación" (PIIE) we have developed and apply, based on critical pedagogy,
a method to involved teachers in the analysis of their on educational
practice trying to discover how they are reproducing in their classes the
dominant (patriarchal) model.

    3.. Third, it seems to me that there is a need to link the discussion
on patriarchal model with a political-ethical framework. In other words,
the approach of HRE in change the patriarchal order should be sustained on
an ethical theory that will support a moral practice.


Abraham Magendzo K.
Coordinator of UNESCO Chair on HRE
Santiago - Chile



On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, pdhre@igc.org wrote:

>We are writing to ask for your comments on a project we're working on at
>PDHRE, People's Movement for Human Rights Education. At PDHRE's website
>you will find a draft position paper that we will soon send to women's
>groups and various other community groups around the world. The position
>paper is available at: http://www.pdhre.org/patriarchy.html Our goal, as
>outlined in this document, is to encourage a critical inquiry into
>patriarchy. We hope to facilitate a dialogue about transforming the
>patriarchal system to a human rights system through learning about human
>rights as a way of life.
>




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