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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!
re: connecting students around the world
Amy Weismann, Deputy Director, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights
Language barriers are of course a very real constraint and and important to recognize. I wonder if this might also present an opportunity to engage students studying other languages in other parts of the unversity in the work of creating this network. Language learners often seek avenue to practice theri skills and interpreting and translating for thier peers, may be a win-win situaiot for all concerned. The human rights center/program could offer an on site practicum experience for foreign language students, while devlping a network of student human rights scholars around the world. Perhaps an ambitious vision, but I can see in my university how we may be able to utilize the skills and assets of students not already involved in our program by engaging ther skills in concrete ways.
--Amy
Amy Weismann, Deputy Director, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights