[hr-education] New Council of Europe teacher manual on children's rights

EDC/HRE: Exploring Children's Rights - Nine short projects for primary
level

Children should know what rights they have, but they should also learn how
to appreciate and to use them. To achieve this, schools must allow for a
wide range of learning experiences in children's rights education.
Children understand and appreciate their rights by using them, both in
school and in everyday life. To encourage children to do so, the challenge
for the teacher is to create a setting that is governed by the spirit of
democracy and human rights.

This manual has been designed for teachers who are looking for tools to
teach children's rights to students at primary schools. The features of
this manual include:

- Nine small projects of four lessons each, for students in their first
nine years of school.
- Detailed lesson instructions that can be followed by beginners or used
in teacher training.
- A lesson plan including the key questions and key tasks in each at the
beginning of each project description.
- An approach of task-based learning, focusing on problem solving and
learning by example, which supports the pupils in conceptual learning,
skills training and the development of values and attitudes.
- Following the key principles of Education for Democratic Citizenship
(EDC), methods and setting of open and co-operative learning support the
message of content and principles in children's rights learning. (Learning
through, about and for children's rights.)
- A tool to support reflection and discussion in class (see below). 
- A section on materials for teaching and further studies in children's 
rights. 

Author(s) : Rolf Gollob / Peter Krapf 
ISBN 10 : 92-871-6089-8 
ISBN 13 : 978-92-871-6089-8 
Format : A4 
No. of pages :93 
Price : 15 €/ 23 $ + 10% postage 

--------------------------------------- 

Council of Europe Publishing 
Palais de l'Europe, 67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France 
E-mail : publishing@coe.int 
Visit our site : http://book.coe.int 
Tel. : +33 (0)3 88 41 25 81 
Fax : +33 (0)3 88 41 39 10 

To place an order directly 
http://book.coe.int/sysmodules/RBS_page/admin/redirect.php?id=36)=EN&produit_aliasid=2194





======== 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.