[hr-education] 'The Right to Education' e-learning course (15 February-27 March 2012)

2012-02-07 18:17:59

Dear Members,

HREA and the Right to Education Project will be offering a six-week e-learning course on the right to education from 15 February thru 27 March 2012. Below you will find a short description of the course. There are still a few places available in the course. For further information and to apply online, please go to: www.hrea.org/right-to-education  

Best wishes,

Frank Elbers
Executive Director, HREA

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The Right to Education
15 February-27 March 2012
Instructor: Dr. Angela Melchiorre

This short certificate course offered by Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) and the Right to Education Project provides human rights, development and education advocates with concepts, skills, and tools to deepen their knowledge and strategise their work on the right to education. The e-learning course will look at the theoretical foundations of the right to education, how to apply them in order to identify stakeholders, obligations and violations, and what strategies may be used to promote and realise the right. The course will apply a human rights advocacy methodology whereby participants learn to work at the level of: substance (being aware of the content and meaning of the right in order to identify violations); structure (identifying duty-bearers and using legal instruments so to encourage accountability); society (identifying actions and behavioural/value changes in order to enhance participation of rights-holders).

Course outline

Week 1: Understanding the right to education (I)
Week 2: Understanding the right to education (II): legal obligations vs. political commitments
Week 3: Identifying obligations (immediate vs. progressive realisation; respect, protect, fulfil; states, international community, non-state actors)
Week 4: Identifying violations (issues: fees, compulsory nature, teachers training; groups: women and girls, minorities, emergencies, extremely poor)
Week 5: Monitoring the right to education (existing monitoring mechanisms; law and policy assessment; budget analysis; indicators)
Week 6: Developing strategies for the realisation of the right to education (judicial review and strategic litigation; lobbying and mobilisation of independent experts and bodies; community-based educational and awareness-raising activities)

For further information and to apply online, please go to: www.hrea.org/right-to-education  


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About HREA's Distance Learning Programme

Since 2002, over 5,000 human rights defenders, development workers, staff members of international organisations and graduate students have successfully participated in Human Rights Education Associates (HREA)'s e-learning courses.

Further information about HREA's Distance Learning Programme and upcoming courses can be found at: www.hrea.org/courses