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Overview
Teaches human rights as a subject and as a practice: the frameworks, the history, and how to facilitate rights education in schools, communities and organisations without turning it into abstraction.
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Aims of the Course
- Explain core human rights instruments and principles
- Facilitate rights-based learning for varied ages
- Apply rights frameworks to real situations
- Build rights-respecting organisational practice
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Course Structure
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Instruments and History
- Universal Declaration and covenants
- Regional rights systems
- Civil, political, economic and social rights
- Limitations and derogations
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Pedagogy of Rights
- Education about, through and for rights
- Facilitating difficult topics
- Rights and responsibilities with young learners
- Critical thinking and sources
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Rights in Context
- Equality and non-discrimination
- Freedom of expression and its limits
- Children's rights
- Economic and social rights in practice
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Rights-Based Practice
- Applying a rights lens to services
- Participation and voice
- Accountability mechanisms
- Documenting rights concerns
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Working With Groups
- Designing a rights workshop
- Handling contested views
- Working with trauma and lived experience
- Assessment of learning
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Facilitation Project
- Design a rights education programme
- Deliver a workshop
- Reflect on facilitation
- Participant-led evaluation
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Learning Outcomes
- 01Explain the main human rights instruments
- 02Design a rights education workshop series
- 03Facilitate debate on contested rights issues
- 04Apply a rights lens to an organisational policy
- 05Evaluate learning in rights education
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Assessment
- Workshop series design
- Observed facilitation
- Rights analysis essay
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Entry Requirements
- Open access
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Progression and Careers
- Human rights educator
- Youth and community worker
- Policy and advocacy officer