Workshop: Service Learning with a Human Rights Focus

Posted by on February 17, 2006

Workshop: Service Learning with a Human Rights Focus

14 March 2006

This workshop demonstrates how a human rights-based approach can deepen students’ critical engagement with the social justice component of service learning. Participants receive a copy of the new publication Human Rights Education and Service Learning Guide developed by Amnesty International-USA and Human Rights Education Associates (HREA). Participants take part in an activity from the new manual and engage in an overarching conversation of the value added from applying the human rights framework to service learning.

Facilitators: Liz Sullivan and Felisa Tibbittts (HREA).

This workshop is held during the Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies, March 13-16, 2006.

Level: professional
Location: Boston, USA

Participants: middle school and high school teachers, and college/university professors

Tuition, fee, lodging: Registration for Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies is required in order to participate in this workshop. Registration forms (http://www.masscouncil.org/NERC_PreRegistration.pdf)
have to be submitted to the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies.

Contact Information:
HREA
PO Box 382396
Cambridge, MA 02238
USA
Tel: +1 978 341-0200
Fax: +1 978 341-0201
E-mail: nerc-workshop-2006@hrea.org
http://www.hrea.org