Human Rights Education by Bajaj Monisha; Flowers Nancy;

Author:Bajaj, Monisha; Flowers, Nancy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Published: 2017-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

Buckingham School2 was in many ways an ideal candidate for piloting HRFS. It had strong support from the school leadership for human rights, student voice, and international education as part of its school-wide work. Prior to partnering with Amnesty, the school had implemented initiatives aimed at fostering understanding of international issues (e.g., an annual international conference that invited students from around the world to participate, and fair trade awareness-raising campaigns in the school’s cafeteria), as well as democracy and student voice (e.g., democratically elected student leadership teams and house councils providing peer mediation, and events such as an annual “democracy week”). School leaders directly linked participation in HRFS to an expansion of these existing initiatives as a way to support and integrate the project. The school had also already begun work in 2008 on a separate whole-school HRE program, UNICEF UK’s Rights Respecting Schools Award. Finally, the school’s demographic profile was distinctly international and culturally diverse, with 98 percent of students from minority backgrounds, and many from immigrant families from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The school’s Somali, Sri Lankan, and Afghan students, in particular, were from war-afflicted backgrounds and areas where human rights are under threat every day. HRFS was seen as a way to progressively advance the school’s agenda as a twenty-first-century cosmopolitan school.

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