Essays about: "teaching human rights"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words teaching human rights.

1. 1. Teaching Human Rights - Human Rights Education in Upper Grades of Croatian Primary Schools

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Daniela Pecolaj; [2022]
   Keywords : human rights education; human rights education Croatia; Tibbitts; teaching human rights;

   Abstract : The aim of this research is to explore education policies through Tibbitts’ human rights education (HRE) models and to explore the practices in teaching HRE through education policies (i.e., civic education curriculum - CEC) and Tibbitts’ three models of HRE. READ MORE

3. 2. Remembering the Holocaust : Teaching historical trauma in the English classroom through historical fiction and Maus

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

   Author : Felicia Siljebrand; [2021]
   Keywords : education; didactics; language; literature; history; english; trauma; historical trauma;

   Abstract : This essay explores historical trauma through the lens of post-memory and trauma theory, and aims to analyse the representation of historical trauma in Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus. By using these theories, the essay explores how trauma can be passed on through generations, and how it ultimately affects not only the people who were there to experience it, but also those generations that came after. READ MORE

4. 3. Teaching the Swedish Common Principles as Virtue Ethics: The Unjust Narrator, Gender Inequality and the Arena of Societal Transformation in Welcome to Our Hillbrow

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Emma Aho; [2021]
   Keywords : Phaswane Mpe; virtue ethics; African feminism; narratology; sexism; gender inequality; societal transformation; arena; narrator; implied author; responsible reader; Socratic dialogue; affective-humanistic approach;

   Abstract : According to Skolverket, the Swedish school has two missions: conveying knowledge and teaching values. These values are taught through the common principles (värdegrund) and instruct students about democratic values and human rights. However, Skolverket also reports that students lack such knowledge. READ MORE

5. 4. Postcolonial Literature in Swedish EFL Teaching: : A Didactic Consideration of Teaching Postcolonial Literary Concepts with Examples from Arvind Adiga's The White Tiger

   University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

   Author : Martin Svensson; [2020]
   Keywords : postcolonial literature; postcolonial concepts; binary pairs; Othering; curriculum; syllabus;

   Abstract : This study examines what support that exists in the Swedish upper secondary school curriculum and the English 7 syllabus for teaching postcolonial literature and the postcolonial literary concepts of binary pairs and Othering. This study also illustrates how Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) could serve as an example of a postcolonial novel to exemplify said concepts in the EFL classroom. READ MORE

6. 5. Changing Norms about Life Skills and Sexuality Education through Empowerment: A study of public secondary life skills teachers’ experiences and perceptions in Zanzibar

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Jenny Fristrand; [2019-08-13]
   Keywords : formal sexuality education; Zanzibar; Teachers; Life skills; Empowerment; Human Rights; Norm changing;

   Abstract : Formal life skills education, including topics related to sexuality, was developed in the 1990s to prevent HIV/AIDS as well as a method to strengthen ‘good’ behaviours among students in schools. In Zanzibar, life skills education interventions have duplicated in recent years. READ MORE