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Exercise, Background Text, Manual
Compass is an educational manual which aims to provide you with the ideas, inspiration and motivation to venture into the field of human rights education with young people.
Compass exists in various languages
Compass is the result of an intensive drafting and testing process, involving experts and practitioners from the field of Human Rights Education. Compass aimed to be as complete and comprehensive in the contents as possible.
The result is a manual which:
- users don't have to read in its entirety to be able to use it - a facilitator should be able to run an activity without having to read material that is not directly relevant to their context or situation;
-contains a minimum of supplementary information for those facilitators who may feel uncomfortable when dealing with a certain theme (COMPASS should be sufficient);
-is eminently practical and based on experiential activities;
-is attractive, reflects the concerns of young people in Europe and is a tool to develop their social skills and attitudes as much as their knowledge and competencies;
-focuses on values and on social issues rather than (just) on formal rights as laid down in conventions;
-is usable in formal and non-formal education;
-leaves "background information in the background" and not at the beginning so that users can get on with the activities but know that supporting information is available for reference.
As a result, COMPASS is organised in the following way:
- Chapter 1: Familiarises the reader with what we mean by human rights education. It should motivate, inspire and introduce the reader on how to get the best out of COMPASS and its educational approaches,
- Chapter 2: A collection of 49 activities of different levels of complexity, which cover different themes and address different types of rights,
- Chapter 3: "Taking action", contains ideas and tips for those that would like to be more active in promoting human rights,
- Chapter 4: Provides essential information about human rights and international standards and documents,
- Chapter 5: Supplementary background information about the themes,
- The appendices: Contain essential information on legal documents, because human rights are also about laws.
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This tool is for
The main target group is Human Rights Education practitioners: Compass wants to be a useful tool for trainers, youth workers, peer educators, policy makers and all those that want to set up human rights education with young people.
and addresses
Social Inclusion, Anti-Racism, Intercultural Learning, European Citizenship
Materials needed:
You can print out different parts of the online Compass at http://eycb.coe.int/compass/
Duration:
NA
The tool was created by
Unknown.
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The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Tony Geudens (on 2 June 2004)
and last modified
17 December 2008
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