
School-based Understanding of Human Rights in four Countries - A Commonwealth Study - Education research paper No. 22 (DFID; 1997; 62 pages)
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	Executive summary
	1 Introduction
	2 Issues
		a Relationships between Commonwealth membership, international conventions, national constitutions and school curricula
		b Content, ownership, cross-curricular or single subject
		c Resourcing, material, teacher preparation
		d Effectiveness, examined or unexamined
	3 Human rights and intercultural education in the Commonwealth
	4 Methodology of a four country study
		a Choice of countries, schools
		b Conceptual map
		c Relationship between student survey and contextual inquiries
		d Nature of an impact study
		e Questions that students could understand
		f What “is” and what “ought” to be
		g Linguistic issues
	5 Significant country variables
		a Botswana
		b India
		c Northern Ireland
		d Zimbabwe
	6 Findings of the study of student perceptions
		a Law and the administration of justice
		b Equality of opportunity
		c History
		d Civic and social rights and responsibilities
		e Consumer rights
		f Violence
		g Identity
		h Experience of human rights education at school
	7 Conclusions and recommendations reached by each country team
	8 Commonwealth cooperation and the 13th conference of commonwealth education ministers, Gaborone, Botswana, 28 july -1 august 1997
	9 Summary of findings of the study
	Acknowledgements
	Brief bibliography

School-based Understanding of Human Rights in four Countries - A Commonwealth Study - Education research paper No. 22

R Bourne, J Gundara, A Dev, N Ratsoma,
M Rukanda, A Smith, U Birthistle

October 1997

Serial No. 22
ISBN: 186192 095 4

Department for International Development

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