Secondary Citizenship - The Human Rights Experience
Bryn Hafren Comprehensive School for Girls in South Wales has enriched lessons by introducing human rights issues across the curriculum.
English and music teacher Naomi Howells finds that bringing human rights issues into lessons can inspire pupils. She has organised a human rights week and devised lesson plans across all areas of the curriculum.
It's a whole school approach supported by the headteacher, who is careful to encourage pupils to debate, rather than simply accept what they hear.
The school's thriving Amnesty International group demonstrates against Gauntanamo Bay in the town centre, where the pupils are surprised to discover that some locals disagree with their point of view.
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Facebookknowledge on 29 January 2008
It seems of paramount importance to bring human rights'issues into classes.However,most of students don't seem to be int ...
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- Duration: 15:00 minutes
- Published: 05 November 2007
- Licence information for Secondary Citizenship - The Human Rights Experience
- Next showing on TV: 13:30 10 February 2010
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DCSF Standards Site: Citizenship at Key Stage 3
DCSF Standards Site: Citizenship at Key Stage 4
Amnesty Information about how Amnesty International works to promote awareness of human rights
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Human rights issues into classes29 January 2008 - 16:49It seems of paramount importance to bring human rights'issues into classes.However,most of students don't seem to be interested in such topics.First they see it is a waste of time talking about something which is rarely put into practice.Secondly,students should know their rights at school and fight for them.How can we talk about the right to protest or to speak freely outside while they are not allowed to do so in the classroom?i Am not against talking to students about human rights,but not just for the sake of talking.this is inhuman,I think .
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