[hr-education] On-line Global Forum on relation HRE and other "educations"

Dear Members,
 
>From Thursday, 29 September until Wednesday, 26 October there will be an
on-line Global Forum involving the Global HRE listserv and six regional
listservs. The topic will be the position of human rights education (HRE)
vis-à-vis other "educations", such as education for democratic
citizenship, peace education and global education. Like in earlier
"on-line fora" we will focus the discussion on a specific topic and invite
members to address this in-depth.

HREA has previously organised three on-line fora on the Global HRE List
that provided crucial input into the policy making process at the United
Nations. The first time HREA organised an on-line forum was in July-August
2000, around the mid-term evaluation of the UN Decade for HRE. The
follow-up to the UN Decade was the topic of an on-line forum in 2002, and
the draft World Programme for HRE topic was the focus of the June-July
2004 forum. The latter was the first time that the discussion took place
on the Global HRE List and the six regional HRE lists simultaneously, in
partnership with the Asia-Pacific Regional Resource Center for Human
Rights Education (ARRC), Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies,
Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH), Moscow School for
Human Rights and l'Union Interafricaine des Droits de l'Homme (UIDH). We
are very pleased that we can once again facilitate a truly global
conversation on a human rights topic of key interest.

Some background for our conversation. HRE as a movement has grown
exponentially over the past decade. In practice, HRE often overlaps with
other educational programmes or movements that include human rights when
teaching. Like HRE, these programmes typically adopt a curriculum
integration approach, participatory methodologies, issues relevant to the
daily life of students, and include the teaching/learning of knowledge,
skills and attitudes. Depending on their main focus, such programmes are
called Peace Education, Sustainable Development Education, Democratic
Education or Education for Democracy, Citizenship Education,
Intercultural/Multicultural Education, International/Global Education,
Values Education, etc.

The variety of approaches which share so many components, both conceptual
and methodological, and which are also strongly interconnected among
themselves, tends to create confusion among educators and learners, as
much as in the literature. Are these approaches really distinct one from
the other? What is unique about each one? What do they have in common? Is
it theoretically precise and pragmatically appropriate to use so many
labels without having previously established a cut-and-clear distinction
among them? To consolidate a discipline requires shared concepts and
terminology to facilitate understanding and to create a true community of
theorists and practitioners. HRE should not be an exception.

This on-line Global Forum will be co-organised by the Asia-Pacific
Regional Resource Center for Human Rights Education (ARRC), Cairo
Institute for Human Rights Studies, HREA, Instituto Interamericano de
Derechos Humanos (IIDH), and l'Union Interafricaine des Droits de l'Homme
(UIDH). The Forum will begin on Thursday, 29 September 2005 and will take
place simultaneously on the Global HRE List and the six regional HRE
listservs in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Portuguese/Spanish. The
proposed topics for discussion are as follows:

29 September - 5 October
Theoretical framework, legal bases and history of human rights education

6 - 12 October
Goals/objectives of human rights education

13 - 19 October
Pedagogy (methodology) of human rights education

20 - 26 October
The integration of human rights education within formal education

Every Thursday we will send out a "facilitation" message with questions
regarding that week's topic. At the end of each week, HREA will summarise
the week's discussion and will share the summary with all listserv
members. On Thursday, 29 September you will receive a first message with
the topic and questions for discussion for the first week of this on-line
Global Forum.

We look forward to an interesting and exciting dialogue and encourage all
list members to share their views and experiences. We also encourage you
to let others -- who are not subscribed to the Global HRE List or one of
the regional listservs -- know about this on-line Global Forum, in order
to get as many contributions and ideas as possible.

Best wishes,

the Moderators,
HREA
Asia-Pacific Regional Resource Center for Human Rights Education (ARRC)
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH)
Union Interafricaine des Droits de l'Homme (UIDH)



======== Global Human Rights Education listserv =======
Send mail intended for the list to < >.
Archives of the list can be found at:
{http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/ }
**You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this
item, but please retain the original and listserv source.