Human Rights and International Education Projects College of Education

I am in the process of developing a Center for the Inclusion of Human Rights in the Curriculum of the Schools.  We are putting together a project that will work with pre-service educators and teacher trainers to include this material at all levels of the public schools.  Our initial work will be with undergraduate teacher education majors and with the faulty that teaches this group. Our plan is to then move to an in-service mode with teachers in the field.

We have had a series of workshops over the last 4 years on this issue and the response by both teachers and junior high and secondary school students has been very favorable.  More often than not it is an issue of getting people together in the school to infuse these concepts without feeling they are neglecting the academic side of the teaching.

I would welcome others doing similar work to share with all of us what they are doing, how they are accomplishing these tasks and the positives and negatives of the strategies used.

Paul Retish  Professor of Special Education Division of Curriculum and Instruction Prime Investigator

Human Rights and International Education Projects College of Education
789 Van Allen Hall Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Phone: 319-335-5331 Fax: 319-335-6291
email: paul-retish(AT)uiowa.edu