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Thank you for joining New Tactics and other practitioners for an online dialogue on Advancing Children’s Right to Education from February 15 to 21, 2012! We...
This post is a little late in coming but I committed to sharing information about Play it Fair! so here it is.
Equitas’ Play it Fair! Program has involved training educators, summer camp workers, and after school daycare workers in an...
Hello All,
Looking back over the dialogue these past few days I thought these additional links and resources might be of interest.
International Standards - Education Rights of Minorities:
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities has developed recommendations for...
Thank you for sharing the "Speaking Rights Toolkit". I wanted to share a curriculum that was created by The Advocates for Human Rights. This is a curriculum also for ages...
Hi All,
The topic of girls’ education came up a few times in this dialogue so I thought I’d add some resources. A number of years ago I worked in Ghana on girls’ education in the “Girls’ Education Unit” part of the Ministry of Education. The Unit had a number of strategic objectives,...
With the promulgation of the 18th constitutional Amendment in Pakistan, education has become a provincial subject and the important and positive change in the amendment is the insertion of Article-25-A in the constitution of Pakistan that guarantees the right to free and compulsory education to...
Thank you for sharing what BBA has been up to in India! It is great to hear about the new tactics you are implementing there:
Right to education brings equality, justice and parity in society. No rights can sustain without awareness and awareness can only come from education. Thus Right to education is a part of right to life itself. Without education, there cannot be dignity and therefore the Right to Education is...
The government should be more committed in delivering its responsibilities and making education available to every child.
Strong will and oversight on the part of the administrative structures responsible for making education available. There should be proper...
In India, the Right to education Act was implemented in the year 2010 by the Government of India, which makes elementary education free and compulsory to all children upto the age of 14 years or till the completion of elementary education.
In order to advance children's right to...
Some barriers which exist in India are:
Hello all - it would be great to hear examples of how practitioners have used international law to advance children's right to education. Participants in this dialogue have...
Very interesting! Thanks, Libby. I think it's pretty neat that Build Africa organizes exchange visits for school management committees (SMCs). It's great to hear that this work is already having a positive impact on communities and schools! Thank you for doing this...
Hi Kristin,
I will try my best to answer all of your questions.
- How are school management committess created?
In Kenya it is part is a government requirement that all schools have a School Management Committee, the main problem we face in this context is the...
In theory it's quite straightforward: raise the minimum ages to match up with the finishing age for school. In practice of course, there are many complications e.g. some families rely on their children working or culture dictates that girls don't need to go to school.
To answer your...
As mentioned in an earlier post, the barriers in Canada that prevent young people from exercising their right to education include bullying, intimidation, exclusion, racism, homophobia, alienation, violence and discrimination. One tactic that can be used to ensure that children and youth are...
I have been thinking about your question for days, Libby! I am eager to hear from others on this topic of how to ensure that education is relevant and useful for communities.
I wanted to try to connect this question to a tactic implemented by Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) in...
There are many gaps that still need to be addressed in education and I thought I'd share one that the Right to Education Project is working on. When States report periodically to the UN Committee on the...
Thanks for this Paul. We are currently reviewing our teacher training activities as part of the work we do so this is really helpful!
Libby
Our programming in Canada therefore focuses on addressing issues such as bullying, intimidation, exclusion, racism, homophobia, alienation, violence and discrimination through youth engagement. In...
One of the most important aspects of this work is to build up the capacity of school management committees to run their schools and monitor the quality of teaching and learning. By empowering communities and...