OSAKA UNIVERSITY SHORT-TERM STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM _

Promoting Human Rights Education

Mino MIYAMOTO(Center for International Education and Exchange)

Objective
   In this globalized world, there is an increasing need to understand diversity and to respect people from various backgrounds not only in local level but also in regional and global levels. How can we achieve this? One of the answers could be in Human Rights, which provide us with the norm of conduct for all human beings equally.
   Education has an important role to give us basic knowledge about Human Rights and opportunity for us to analyze the individual cases deeply and express our views in the classroom. We are going to learn Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a basic knowledge, and we will discuss right to education by analyzing one of the Japanese cases. The aim of this course is to give you not only the knowledge about the Human Rights, but also the skills and attitude that you need to become global citizens, and make an action based on the Human Rights. I highly expect your positive participation.

Course Schedule

  1. Introduction: What is Human Rights?
  2. Discuss: How can we achieve "Justice and Peace" ?
  3. Discuss: Is Human Rights Education just an ideal ?
  4. Discuss: Which right do you think the most important ?
  5. Discuss: Is Human Rights effective ?
  6. Discuss: Millennium Development Goals
  7. Discuss: Values, Cultures and Human Rights
  8. Discuss: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  9. Discuss: Citizenship Education and Human Rights
  10. Discuss: Women's Human Rights
  11. Discuss: Human Rights, Politics and Schooling
  12. -14. Group Presentation
  13. Final Test

Textbooks
   Audrey Osler and Hugh Starkey (2010). Teaching and Human Rights Education. Stoke on Trent, UK and Sterling, USA. Trentham Books

Grading
   I put high emphasis on your positive participation. As shown in following criteria, grading in based on your regular attendance and active performance in each discussion.

  1. Class Attendance and Participation (20%)
  2. Portfolio (15%)
  3. Homework and Submission of Worksheet (15%)
  4. Presentation (25%)
  5. Final Test (25%)
    6.    Please note if you are absent from more than 3 classes, you will not be able to pass the course.

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