DEVELOPMENTAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION |
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| LEVELS | GOALS | KEY CONCEPTS | PRACTICES | SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS PROBLEMS | EDUCATION STANDARDS & INSTRUMENTS |
| Early Childhood • Preschool & lower Primary school • Ages 3 to 7 |
• Respect for self • Respect for parents and teachers • Respect for others |
• Self • Community • Responsibility |
• Fairness • Self-expression • Listening |
• Racism • Sexism • Unfairness • Hurting People (feeling, physically) |
• Classroom rules • Family life • Community standards • Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| Later Childhood • Upper primary school • Ages 8 to 11 |
• Social Responsibility • Citizenship • Distinguishing wants from needs from rights |
• Individual rights • Group rights • Freedom • Equality • Justice • Rule of law • Government • Security • Democracy |
• Valuing diversity • Fairness • Distinguishing betweenfact and opinion • Performing school orcommunity service • Civic participation |
• Discrimination/prejudice • Poverty/Hunger • Injustice • Ethnocentrism • Passivity |
• UDHR • History of human rights • Local, national legal systems • Local and national history in human rights terms • UNESCO, UNICEF |
| Adolescence • Lower secondary school • Ages 12 to 14 |
• Knowledge of specific human rights |
• International law • World Peace • World Development • World Political Economy • World Ecology • Legal Rights • Moral Rights |
• Understanding otherpoints of view • Citing evidence in support of ideas • Doing research/gathering information • Sharing information • Community service and action |
• Ignorance • Apathy • Cynicism • Political repression • Colonialism/imperialism • Economic globalization • Environmental degradation |
• UN Covenants • Elimination of racism • Elimination of sexism • Regional human rights conventions • UNHCR • NGOs |
| Older Adolescents and Adults • Upper secondary school and adult groups • Ages 15 and up |
• Knowledge of human rights standards • Integration of human rights into personal awareness and behaviors |
• Moral responsibility/ literacy | • Participation in civic organizations • Fulfilling civic responsibilities • Civic disobedience • Community services and action |
• Genocide • Torture |
• Geneva Conventions • Specialized conventions • Evolving human rights standards |
Adapted fromn the United Nations Document, Guidelines for National Plans of Action for Human Rights Education.