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HOW CAN HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION HELP INSPREADING VALUE EDUCATION?
DHEERAJ MEHROTRAHEAD, TQM IN EDUCATION,CITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL & DEGREE COLLEGE, LUCKNOW,INDIATQMHEAD@AOL.COM
http://humanrightsforall.wetpaint.com
Children are strong, rich and capable. All children have preparedness, potential, curiosity,and interest in constructing their learning,negotiating with everything their environment brings to them.
Loris Malaguzzi 
Human Rights Education in India:
Human Rights Education in Indian Schools is the report of a research project conductedin India as a part of a four country study sponsored by Asia-Pacific Human RightsInformation Center, Osaka, Japan. The project was mainly designed to provide anindependent and critical review of the state of human rights education in theparticipating countries that included, besides India, Japan, Philippines and Sri Lanka.Besides a brief analysis of some aspects of the broad framework of the national policyon education and of curriculum, the report presents the findings of a survey of awareness of human rights among secondary school students.
 
DATA ANALYSIS
QUOTE:“The Need as the the Report: THE HINDU, Teach human rights in school,says seer 
“ BANGALORE, JUNE 27.The seer of Nidumamidi Math, Veerabhadra Chennamalla Swamiji, has called for introduction of human rights as a compulsory subject in schools and colleges.He was speaking after inaugurating the State-level public hearing on atrocities onDalitsto mark the United Nations Day in Support of Victims of Torture, on Saturday. Thefunction was organised by the South India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring (SICHREM).The swamiji said: “Though there are many laws which guarantee security to theoppressed castes, India has failed in the strict enforcement of them.Laws cannot achieve everything. What is needed is an attitudinal change. Hence, theintroduction of a subject on human rights in schools and colleges is essential.” Theseer said the educated Dalits were escaping from reality and leaving the uneducated Dalitsto face the atrocities by higher castes. “It is unfortunate that the educated Dalitsare sanskritisingthemselves. They have no willingness to fight the injustice heaped onthem by the upper castes,” he lamented.
 
If racism in the West had a history of 350 years, untouchability in India had a history of over 3,500 years, the seer said. “There is a concerted effort by the upper caste groupsto see that untouchability is perpetuated as there is much gain for them by doing this,” the swamiji said.“Though capitalism ruled our economic system, our cultural and social system still remains feudal,” he said. In the public hearing that followed Dalits from various parts of the State narrated their experiences of torture by people of the upper castes. “ 
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Children should know what rights they have and should also know how to explore anduse them. To achieve this schools should allow for a wide range of learning experiencesin children’s rights education. To encourage children to do so, the challenge for theteacher is to create a setting that is governed by the spirit of democracy and humanrights .The sample selected for the survey, consisting of 2039 students drawn from 29 schoolslocated in seven states and the National Capital Territory, sought to represent, even if not fully, the heterogeneity of the country and the variety of types of schools. Some of the findings of the field survey - for example, students from educationally backwardstates and from relatively lower social strata have a greater awareness of human rightsthan those from educationally advanced states and higher social strata - tend to negatemany commonly held notions regarding certain aspects of education and schooladministration. The report will be found to be of interest to those concerned witheducational policy making, curriculum development and educational administration aswell as all those concerned with promoting human rights and human rights education.
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Dheeraj Mehrotra

Need of Human Rights Education in Schools ?

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