(1981). Selection and Training for Human Rights Counseling. Counselor Education and Supervision, v21 n2 p101-08 Dec. Examines the shortcomings of traditional counselor selection and training procedures, and presents suggestions for improving them vis-a-vis human rights counseling. Discusses recruitment and admission issues in counselor selection and the goals of human rights counseling. (Author/RC)…
(1979). Why America Should Support Native Rights. American Indian Journal, v5 n10 p23-24 Oct. The essay discusses Indian rights in the light of national and international law and describes the struggle for Indian rights as part of an international struggle for human rights and social justice. (SB)…
(1976). Credit-Ability for Women. Family Coordinator, 25, 3, 241-248, Jul 76. Although the implementation of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act by November, 1975, prohibits discrimination because of marital status or sex, women applicants may need to continue to educate creditors as to their credit-ability. The author offers specific procedures women might follow to establish credit. (Author)…
(1990). The Philosophical Roots of the Bill of Rights: The Federalists' and Anti-Federalists' Conceptions of Rights. Political Science Teacher, v3 n2 p1-4 Spr. Discusses faculty seminars on the philosophical roots of the U.S. Bill of Rights. Explores the argument between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists over respective views on the Bill of Rights. Traces the historical and philosophical origins of Republicanism. Provides an outline of themes and readings for each seminar. (RW)…
(1998). Teaching the Meaning of the Second Amendment: A Brief Note on Recent Research. OAH Magazine of History, v13 n1 p64-66 Fall. Provides a brief overview of historical and legal scholarship on gun control and the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Limits its scope to works by acknowledged legal and historical scholars, avoiding contemporary pro- and anti-gun-control opinion pieces. Includes a bibliography of further resources for teachers. (DSK)…
(1998). Teaching Strategy: A New Planet. Update on Law-Related Education, v22 n3 p46 Fall. Presents a lesson for middle and secondary school students in which they respond to a hypothetical scenario that enables them to develop a list of basic rights. Expounds that students compare their list of rights to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in order to explore the assumptions about human rights. (CMK)…
(1999). The March on Washington: A Teacher's Remembrance. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, v24 n2 p84 Fall. Reminisces about the day of the March on Washington; in particular, the anticipatory atmosphere that swept the city, the fears of what might occur, and the daily plans that ceased to exist. Concentrates on the passion and fervor of the people who participated in the March and listened to Dr. King's speech. (CMK)…
(2007). The Sustainable Development of Inclusive Education. Chinese Education and Society, v40 n4 p44-62 Jul-Aug. The advent of inclusive education has quietly changed the ecology of Hong Kong's educational system. Inclusive education is a product of education in the developed Western nations and has spread at the instigation of international organizations. It is a plan for educational development that is based on the concepts of human rights and peace and stresses respect for differences. However, it is also a means of managing schools that is easier to comprehend than to carry out. This paper attempts to explain the basic concepts of inclusive education, describe its operative elements, and discuss its practical problems. Drawing on research findings and developmental experience gained abroad and locally, the author makes some suggestions for the sustained development of inclusive education. [This report was translated by Ted Wang.]… [Direct]
(1965). Civil Disobedience, 1830-1850, and a Modern Analogy. Teacher and Student Manuals. This social studies unit invites students to consider the philosophical bases of civil disobedience as well as the practical consequences and limits of the use of law-breaking as a means of social protest. The first three sections of the unit focus on the abolitionists' civil disobedience in antebellum America, presenting brief accounts of mob action against \disobedients\ and examining the reason for the attacks. Widely divergent arguments for and against civil disobedience by such men as Samuel Spear, Albert Bledsoe, and William Channing are included, together with a long excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's formal argument on civil disobedience. The final two sections of the unit deal with a modern analogy to the historical situation: the resistance to segregation as well as the view of those \disobedients\ who want to maintain the status quo of the Negro. [Not available in hard copy due to marginal legibility of oroginal document.] (Author/JB)… [PDF]
(2006). Operation Day's Work: Students Making a Difference. National Middle School Association (NJ3), Middle Ground v10 n2 p27-29 Oct. In 1994, students from Broad Meadows Middle School met Iqbal Masih, a 12-year-old Pakistani activist who had been sold into bonded labor at age 4 and escaped at age 10. They were moved to take action, and started a letter-writing campaign protesting child labor. When they heard of Iqbal's death later that year, they decided to build a school in his name in Pakistan, using the power of the Internet to raise the required money. By soliciting donations from classes in their school and from other middle schools, and by acquiring outside help from Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy and Amnesty International, they eventually raised $150,000–money that was then used to build a five-room school for former bonded laborers and to establish a fund to help Pakistani families buy children back from bonded labor. They also worked with the United States Agency for International Development to co-found a new international aid program, Operation Day's Work. Students in the 15 participating schools… [Direct]
(2006). Political Realities: To Get National Standards, Leaders Will Need to Be Bold. Education Next, v6 n4 p56-59 Fall. Politicians, less interested in purity than in popularity, are generally wary of national standards. Yet a standards-based accountability system is the core component of NCLB, and in some ways it has made standards advocates victims of their own success. Now, many activists are agitating to cut back the role of Washington in education, and a politician aiming to expand it with national standards could seem naive or stupid. However, some politicians have been able to take modest steps toward national standards without creating a firestorm. In this article, the author discusses the importance of good leadership in selling a new set of national standards, and describes how politicians on either the left or the right could gain support for federal standards by emphasizing the connection with other significant educational concerns embraced by their constituents: Republicans by linking standards to school choice, and Democrats by linking them to a greater commitment to funding the means to… [Direct]
(2006). Recommended Outcomes for Families of Young Children with Disabilities. Journal of Early Intervention, v28 n4 p227-251. The Early Childhood Outcomes (ECO) Center was funded by the Office of Special Education Programs to promote the development and implementation of child and family outcome measures for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with disabilities. An evidence-based process with extensive stakeholder input led to the identification of five outcomes by which the effectiveness of services for families could be assessed: (a) families understand their child's strengths, abilities, and special needs; (b) families know their rights and advocate effectively for their child; (c) families help their child develop and learn; (d) families have support systems; and (e) families are able to gain access to desired services and activities in their community. These outcomes provide a framework by which states and the federal government could document whether early intervention and preschool programs are providing demonstrable benefits for families, and provide the basis for developing measurement systems to… [Direct]
(2006). Decentralising Education in Indonesia. International Journal of Educational Development, v26 n5 p513-531 Sep. The paper aims to assess the impacts of a dramatic decentralisation reform in Indonesia on access to and quality of primary and secondary education. The research draws on qualitative and quantitative data from interviews, focus group discussions and household surveys in four selected districts. The main conclusions are threefold; the administration of educational services is without transparency and accountability, household expenditures on children's education are high and increasing, and huge social and geographical disparities exist. Policy recommendations include increased government spending to make primary education available to all and improved measures to control public policies and expenditure in this sector…. [Direct]
(2006). What the Rule of Law Should Mean in Civics Education: From the \Following Orders\ Defence to the Classroom. Journal of Moral Education, v35 n2 p137-162 Jun. Sixty years after the International Military Tribunal opened in Nuremberg to try \major war criminals\, how should soldiers learn not to follow clearly illegal or unconscionable orders? Following the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, judges during the Nuremberg Trials rejected defendants' efforts to avoid punishment on the basis of superior orders. The Cold War stymied subsequent efforts to codify the norm; subsequent tribunals have adopted similar, but not identical, versions of the rule, as have domestic legal systems. Psychological research by Lawrence Kohlberg and Stanley Milgram raises serious questions about whether young soldiers can or will use their own moral assessments to disobey illegal orders or resist engagement in conduct abusing the rights of others. Further adding to the risks of atrocity are the stress and fear of wartime, the ambiguities and complexities of the war against terror, and confusion about the actual standards governing detentions,… [Direct]
(2006). Democratic Citizenship in Textbooks in Spanish Primary Curriculum. Journal of Curriculum Studies, v38 n2 p205-228 Apr. This paper analyses how textbooks deal with the issues of education for democratic citizenship encompassed within the European framework and Spanish educational reforms. The sample comprised the 24 individual texts in social science, natural science, and technology for 6-12-year-olds. This paper delimits and defines the six themes for analysis: responsibility, participation, conflict resolution, diversity, and human rights. It offers a qualitative description of the content of each theme as well as a quantitative assessment of the frequency with which they appear. The results indicate that European ideals of citizenship education are dealt with unevenly, and in some cases barely, in these textbooks. (Contains 4 notes.)… [Direct]