Compasito - Manual on Human Rights Education for Children
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Acknowledgements

Preface

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Compasito – a manual on human rights education for children!

What is human rights education with children?

Human rights education and education for democratic citizenship

Whom is Compasito for?

What is in Compasito?

The organisation of Compasito

Compasito in the framework of the Human Rights Education Youth Programme

I. INTRODUCING HUMAN RIGHTS

1. What are human rights?

Precursors of twentieth century human rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The human rights framework

The commitment of ratification

The evolution of a human rights convention

Regional human rights conventions

Human Rights mechanisms of the Council of Europe

2. What are children’s rights?

General principles of the Children’s Convention

Monitoring the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Promoting the Convention on the Rights of the Child

II. WHAT IS HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION?

1. Introducing human rights education

Human rights education for children

Knowledge, skills and attitudes

Methodologies for human rights education

Non-formal education

Introducing human rights education in work with children

The right to human rights education

Human rights education and other educational fields

2. Human Rights Education in an international context

United Nations

UNESCO

UNICEF

Council of Europe

Non-governmental organisations

III. HOW TO USE COMPASITO

Getting started with Compasito

The goal of Compasito

Experiential learning

Experiencing

Reporting

Reflecting

Generalising

Applying

Facilitation

Thinking and learning styles

Which is your thinking style?

Which is your favorite or dominant learning style?

Children’s developmental levels

What is in a Compasito activity?

The Convention on the Rights of the Child as foundation

Selecting activities

Adapting activities

Tips for promoting participation

Tips for facilitation

Icebreakers / Warm-ups / Starters

Energizers

Evaluation and Reflection Opportunities

Managing Conflict

Practising human rights education

IV. ACTIVITIES

Summary of Activities

1. A Body of Knowledge

2. A Constitution for Our Group

3. A Human Rights Calendar

4. Advertising Human Rights

5. Blindfolded

6. Board Games

6a, Do You Know Your Rights?

6b, Moksha-Patamu

7. Boys Don’t Cry!

8. Bullying Scenes

9. Capture the Castle

10. Compasito Reporter

11. Cookie Monster

12. Dear Diary

13. Every Vote Counts

14. From Bystander to Helper

15. Human Rights in the News

16. Modern Fairytale

17. Most Important for Whom?

18. My Universe of Rights

19. Once Upon a Time...

20. Picture Games

20a. Part of the Picture

20b. Captions

20c. Speech Bubbles

21. Picturing Ways Out of Violence

22. Puppets Tell the Story

23. Putting Rights on the Map

24. Rabbit’s Rights

25. Red Alert

26. Rights Mobile

27. Sailing to a New Land

28. Silent Speaker

29. Take a Step Forward

30. The Battle for the Orange

31. The Invisibles are Coming

32. Waterdrops

33. We are Family

34. What a Wonderful World

35. What I Like and What I Do

36. What if ...

37. Where do you stand?

38. Who’s Behind Me?

39. Who Should Decide?

40. Words that Wound

41. World Summer Camp

42. Zabderfilio

V. THEMES

1. Citizenship

2. Democracy

3. Discrimination

4. Education and Leisure

5. Environment

6. Family and Alternative Care

7. Gender Equality

8. Health and Welfare

9. Media and Internet

10. Participation

11. Peace

12. Poverty and Social Exclusion

13. Violence

VI. APPENDICES

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Child-Friendly Version)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The European Convention on Human Rights (Child-Friendly Version)

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) (Child-Friendly Version)

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Human Rights Glossary

Useful Resources

Status of Ratification of Major International Human Rights Instruments