Editors: Rolf Gollob and Peter Krapf
Authors: Rolf Gollob, Ted Huddleston, Peter Krapf, Don Rowe, Wim Taelman
Volume (III) of EDC/HRE Volumes I-VI Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights in school practice Teaching sequences, concepts, methods and models
Living in democracy (Vol. III)
This is a manual for teachers in Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC) and Human Rights Education (HRE), EDC/HRE textbook editors and curriculum developers. Nine teaching units of approximately four lessons…
This is a manual for teachers in Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC) and Human Rights Education (HRE), EDC/HRE textbook editors and curriculum developers. Nine teaching units of approximately four lessons each focus on key concepts of EDC/HRE. The lesson plans give step-by-step instructions and include student handouts and background information for teachers. In this way, the manual is suited for trainees or beginners in the teaching profession and teachers who are receiving in-service teacher training in EDC/HRE. Experienced teachers may draw on the ideas and materials. The complete manual provides a full school year’s curriculum for lower secondary classes, but as each unit is also complete in itself, the manual allows great flexibility in use.
The objective of EDC/HRE is the active citizen who is willing and able to participate in the democratic community. Therefore EDC/HRE strongly emphasise action and task-based learning. The school community is conceived as a sphere of authentic experience where young people can learn how to participate in democratic decision making and may take responsibility at an early age. Key concepts of EDC/HRE are taught as tools of life-long learning.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: Individual and community
- UNIT 1: Stereotypes and prejudices
- Lesson 1: How others see a person
- Lesson 2: How differently a person can be described…
- Lesson 3: Stereotypes and prejudices
- Lesson 4: Identity – Stereotypes about me!
- Student handout 1.1: (Group 1) Role play
- Student handout 1.1: (Group 2) Role play
- Student handout 1.1: (Group 3) Role play
- Background material for teachers: Stereotypes and prejudices
- Student handout 1.2: Self-perception – perception by others
- UNIT 2: Equality – Are you more equal than me?
- UNIT 3: Diversity and pluralism – How can people live together peacefully?
- Lesson 1: How can people live together?
- Lesson 2: Why do people disagree?
- Lesson 3: In what ways are people different?
- Lesson 4: Why are human rights important?
- Student handout 3.1: The school on the edge of the forest
- Student handout 3.2: Hope is for everyone
- Student handout 3.3: Help for Hope College
- Student handout 3.4 – The islanders and the settlers (role cards)
- Student handout 3.5: Situation cards: the islanders
- Student handout 3.6: Key elements of human rights15
- UNIT 4: Conflict
- Lesson 1: Conflict resolution
- Lesson 2: Applying the six-step approach
- Lesson 3: Conflicting human rights
- Lesson 4: Using violence
- Teacher’s resource sheet: International humanitarian law
- Student handout 4.1: A six-step approach to conflict resolution
- Student handout 4.2: Conflict scenarios
- Student handout 4.3: Five cases of conflicting human rights
- Student handout 4.4: Is violence acceptable in some cases?
- UNIT 1: Stereotypes and prejudices
- Part 2: Taking responsibility
- UNIT 5: Rights, liberties and responsibilities
- Lesson 1: Wishes, basic needs, human dignity and human rights
- Lesson 2: Detecting human rights violations
- Lesson 3: Rights and responsibilities
- Lesson 4: Human rights quiz
- Student handout 5.1: Wishes, needs and rights
- Student handout 5.2: List of human rights
- Student handout 5.3: Cases of human rights violations
- Student handout 5.4: Rights and responsibilities
- Student handout 5.5: Human rights quiz (training cards)
- Teacher’s resource sheet
- UNIT 6: Responsibility
- Lesson 1: Responsibilities at home
- Lesson 2: Why should people obey the law?
- Lesson 3: Whose problem is it?
- Lesson 4: Why do people become active citizens?
- Student handout 6.1: Milan makes a choice
- Student handout 6.2: Schmitt’s dilemma
- Student handout 6.3: Things are getting out of control!
- Student handout 6.4: Card sort: the life of Jelena Santic
- UNIT 5: Rights, liberties and responsibilities
- Part 3: Participation
- Part 4: Power and authority
- UNIT 8: Rules and Law
- Lesson 1: Good law – bad law
- Lesson 2: At what age?
- Lesson 3: You make the law
- Lesson 4: Rules of evidence
- Student handout 8.1: A questionnaire: at what age?
- Student handout 8.2: Discussion cards
- 8.1 Background information for teachers: Integration, not criminalisation
- 8.2 Background information for teachers: Convention on the Rights of the Child
- UNIT 9: Government and politics
- UNIT 8: Rules and Law
