Rights of passage : a dialogue with young Australians about human rights
2005
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Canberra : Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Education, c2005.
Collation:
v, 105 pages : colour plates ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Stapled.Bibliography : p. 101-104.
Contents:
Human rights education in Australia: HREOC's human rights education programme for schools; Outline of educational responsibilities in Australia, Defining human rights education, HREOC's human rights education principles for upper primary and secondary school students, Educational outcomes -- Outline of HREOC resources available for upper primary and secondary school students: Youth challenge: teaching them human rights and responsibilities; Bringing them home; Face the facts: questions and answers about refugees, migrants and Indigenous people; A last resort? : the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention, Paid maternity leave: activities on gender equality in the workplace -- Data collection : literature review, national survey, focus groups, essay and art competitions -- Human rights awareness among young Australians: Case studies: Youth wages, anti-terrorism laws, public space, female genital mutilation; Importance of of human rights; A human rights mindset among young people; Where do human rights come from?; Sources of Human rights knowledge; Best known human rights: Freedom from discrimination: bullying; The right to family; Freedom of speech; Participatory and democracy: participation in school, participation in the community; Refugee rights, Indigenous rights; Right to education; "Basic" rights to water, food, shelter -- List of illustrations: selections of entries from the "rights in perspective" art competition 2005 -- Conclusions: egalitarian rights, overall knowledge, awareness of human rights, rights and responsibilities, individual rights, participation and democracy; civil rights; economic rights; implications for human rights education in Australia: implications for Australia's involvement in the World Programme for Human Rights Education -- Appendix A: Human rights-related attitudes and behaviours among young people: an overview by Dr Stephen Bochner: the concept of citizenship, private rights, the emic/etic distinction, public rights, human rights in contemporary times; A selected review of Australian conceptual studies of human rights: Civics Expert Group report, the Adelaide Declaration; National Discovering Democracy Forum; National Framework for values education in Australian schools; Children;s rights education in Canada; Civil rights education in the United States; Human rights in New Zealand; Children's perspectives on children's rights; A selected review of Australian empirical studies using qualitative and quantitative measures of human rights-related knowledge, understanding and attitudes.
ISBN:
0642269998
Dewey class:
323
Language:
English
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BRN:
124981
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