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INVITATION FROM THE REX FOUNDATION IN COLLABORATION WITH
THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL & MULTICULTURAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
3-Day Institute to Experience The World As It Could Be Program Curriculum
Tuesday-Thursday, July 30-August 1, 2013, at the University of San Francisco
For
- Teachers, Administrators, Curriculum Developers of Bay Area High Schools
- Leaders of Community Based Non-Profit Organizations
- University Faculty and Graduate Students
Please join us for our fourth highly acclaimed Three-Day Institute on The World As It Could Be Human Rights Education Program curriculum.
Click here for the Institute Flyer and Registration Form.
There is no charge to attend; enrollment is limited to 25 participants.
During the 3-day training, participants gain knowledge about the Human Rights Education framework and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and their importance in promoting the values, beliefs and attitudes that encourage all individuals to uphold their own rights and those of others. Participants will also experience using creative arts disciplines, including music, visual arts and performance arts to deepen understanding of human rights principles, as well as to express their own ideas of why these principles are relevant to positively addressing the issues we face day-to-day in our schools and communities.
Check out the following links for further reference:
Scenes from the 2012 Summer Institute:
2012 Summer Institute: Culminating Presentation
Curriculum and Resource Guide
Background on the Development of The World As It Could Be (TWAICB) Curriculum:
The impetus to develop TWAICB curriculum, which utilizes the creative arts and a culminating celebratory presentation focused on the UDHR, arose from 2006 project work. In this initial work, a collaborative original production that included dance, song and spoken word was created and performed live at Balboa High School in San Francisco by the high school youth of Destiny Arts Center and Youth Speaks to convey the importance of the UDHR. From this experience, along with continuing program and Human Rights Education work, we have identified the following issues that impel our ongoing efforts:
- The UDHR provides an exciting framework for actively engaging in local and global efforts toward the achievement of life, liberty and human dignity for all people. Although the United States played a crucial role in the drafting of the UDHR and its adoption on December 10, 1948 by the UN General Assembly, many people, across all ages and demographics, are not aware of the UDHR, even though the document is part of the Standards for Social Studies curriculum in most public schools;
- When youth have the opportunity to not only learn about the UDHR, but also be leaders in teaching its importance to their peers and to adults they demonstrate increased involvement in their studies, enhanced social interaction skills and greater commitment to be positively engaged in their school and community;
- The creative arts provide a powerful mechanism for teaching in a way that compels student engagement, deeper learning and personal connection to otherwise abstract content, yet the arts are now subject to deep cuts from many schools due to budgetary constraints;
- The culminating, celebratory presentation of the students’ creative reflections on their studies of the UDHR provides a unique rite-of-passage experience that motivates both higher levels of academic engagement as well as enhanced awareness of and commitment to being engaged members of their immediate and broader communities.
