Human Rights Education
RIGHTS in SIGHT: A Focus on Human Rights in Education
The goal of AIUSA's Rights in Sight initiative is to help teachers bring a stronger human rights perspective to their established curricula. Rights in Sight provides free training and professional development, assistance with curriculum design and implementation, printed resources and access to an online education community.
For more information, or to participate in Rights in Sight, contact AIUSA's Human Rights Education Program.
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MEETING EDUCATION STANDARDS
Discussing and debating issues of human rights is a natural vehicle for teaching skills that meet state education standards :- Identify multiple perspectives
- Listen critically and build upon the ideas of others
- Analyze credibility and authenticity
- Compare and contrast
- Paraphrase problems
- Formulate appropriate questions
- Identify bias of subjects
STIMULATING STUDENTS
Incorporating human rights issues, such as dignity, respect and freedom, draws students to the coursework on an emotional as well as intellectual level. It helps them relate to the material and make important connections between events of other times and places and their own lives.
SUPPORTING TEACHERS
Rights in Sight has been created to encourage the integration of human rights issues into existing school curricula. Our goal is to provide teachers with support through :
- Training workshops/professional development
- Assistance with curriculum design and implementation
- Publications and videos
- Access to an online education community
MAKING RIGHTS RELEVANT
Universal rights, such as freedom of expression and equality, are intrinsically relevant to a host of core subjects, and a Rights in Sight perspective encourages critical thinking and stimulates debate.Science
What do you think the word "relativity" would mean to us today
if Einstein had not been free to express his revolutionary ideas?
History
In the United States, the first voting rights were given to white, male
landowners. Why do you think women and minorities were excluded?
Literature
One of the articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says
that everyone has the right to marry whomever they choose. Was this
a common principle in Romeo and Juliet's day? Do you think that everyone
around the world accepts this principle today?
Civics
Everyone has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Do you think that there are valid reasons for the government to suspend
this right since 9/11?
CONTACT US
For more information, or to participate in Rights in Sight, contact the Education Program of Amnesty International USA, please contact rightsinsight@aiusa.org or call Karen Robinson at (212) 633-4270.
Amnesty International USA
5 Penn Plaza 14th Floor
New York, NY 10001