Educating for human dignity : learning about rights and responsibilities /
Issues of universal human rights are critically important topics in education today. Educators, scholars, and activists urge schools to promote awareness and understanding of human rights in their curricula from the earliest levels. Written by Betty A. Reardon, one of the foremost scholars on human...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1995. |
| Series: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: purposes and approaches
- Developmental sequence for presentation of the core concepts
- Early grades: laying the foundation for an appreciation of human dignity
- Kindergarten to grade three
- Middle grades: introducing standards and principles
- Grades four to six
- Junior high school: reflecting and valuing
- Grades seven to nine
- Senior high school: confronting the problems, taking responsibility
- Grades ten to twelve
- Resources for human rights education
- Appendix: selected human rights documents.