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The November New Tactics on-line dialogue features “Human Rights in Higher Education: Incorporating practical experience”. This dialogue specifically features ideas, experiences and methods from human rights higher education programs for incorporating practical experience into human rights curriculums to better prepare human rights advocates for doing “on the ground” and “in the trenches” human rights work.
The featured resource practitioners (biographical information) include:
- Abigail Booth, Programme Manager, Head of Nairobi Office, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Kenya
- Alice Nderitu, Fahamu (Kenya) in coordination with the University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Jadwiga Maczynska, Project Manager, Jagiellonian University Human Rights Centre, Krakow, Poland
- Mingzhen Ge, Shandong University, Human Rights Center, Law School, China
- Diane Sisely, Director, Australian Centre for Human Rights Education at RMIT University
- Barbara Frey, Director, Human Rights Program, University of Minnesota, USA
- Robin Kirk, Director, Duke University Human Rights Center, North Carolina, USA
- Nicole Palasz, Center for International Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Amy Weismann, Deputy Director, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights
- Susan Atwood, Instructor, University of Minnesota’s Leadership : Leadership for Global Citizenship.
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Main themes of this dialogue:
- Stories of Practice: examples of how practical experience is being incorporated in human rights education programs
- Challenges: ethical issues with incorporating practical experience in human rights education programs
- Curriculum Resources: creating and simulating practical experience
Please help us to keep this dialogue organized by 'replying' to these main themes, or 'replying' to other comments, instead of creating NEW comments. Thanks!
teaching in law school and teaching human rights across discip.
Mingzhen Ge, Shandong University, Human Rights Center, Law School, China
teachers in different law school teach human rights law differently from each other, some teacher will only teach international human rights law, some teacher will focus on rights-based issues teaching. for my own teaching, generally speaking, I will teach following contents: theory and history of human rights, basic concepts relating to human rights, human rights and law, human rights and democracy , human rights and rule of law, human rights evolution in China and around the world, international human rights principles, international human rights treaties, international human rights implementation, domestic implementation of international human rights standards, other issues relating to some specific rights, and so on. Human rights course for graduate students will choose some particular topics to discuss and translate some materials from English to Chinese.
I also open one international human rights law courses to students from different disciplines. Last term, students who attened this courses from about fifteen disciplines. For example, philosophy , sociology,medicine, politics, mathmatics, computer, foreign language,law, physics, chemistry, histroy, literature, engineer and so on. Most of these sutudents are fasinating about human rights issues and want to know more about it, some of them want to study this coures in order to look for job in NGOs or other agencies relating to human rights.
Mingzhen Ge, Shandong University, Human Rights Center, Law School, China