Teaching about Human Rights – An Overview
The overview covers why teach human rights and defines related concepts including Human Dignity, Common Good and Social Justice and Stewardship of the Earth’s Ecology
Lesson Plan
Section 1: General Human Rights Concepts and History
Lesson 1.1 – What are Human Rights
Lesson 1.2 – Children’s Rights
Lesson 1.3 – What are the universal human rights?
Lesson 1.4 – Who we are: Human Uniqueness
Lesson 1.6 – Living a Good Life
Section 2: Economic, Cultural and Social Rights
Lesson 2.1 – The Good Life is for Others?
Lesson 2.2 – Business and Human Rights TV Documentary
Lesson 2.3 – Open Cut – Classroom Simulation
Section 3: Civil and political rights and freedoms, with special focus on civics and citizenship
Lesson 3.1 – Student Agency through Human Rights
Lesson 3.2 – The Stolen Generations & Indigenous Disempowerment
Lesson 3.3 – Overturning Terra Nullius
Lesson 3.4 – Manus Island Detention Centre
Section 4: Combating Discrimination and Bullying
Lesson 4.1 – Advocacy for Women’s Rights
Lesson 4.2 – The Social Model of Disability inclusive London
Lesson 4.4 – Voice from the Workplace
Section 5: Moving in Times
Lesson 5.1 – The Time Travelling Historian – early Australia
Lesson 5.2 – The Time Travelling Historian – the Treaty of Versailles 1919
Lesson 5.3 – The Time Travelling Historian – People & Place
Lesson 5.4 – The Time Travelling Historian – dystopian earth – Year 2050