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Getting the Buggers Motivated in FE


This is a survival guide to beating bad behaviour and motivating students in FE. Susan Wallace provides readers with helpful hints and strategies for preventing lower level disruption to coping when things get really tough. Informative and engaging, this practical guide will prove essential reading for everyone in FE…. More >>

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Signatures Gathered For Human Rights Education

Signatures Gathered for Human Rights Education
 
Youth for Human Rights Florida collected approximately 1,000 petition signatures over the weekend as part of a three-day human rights “Signathon”, with the purpose to get the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights taught in Florida classrooms of elementary, middle and senior high schools.

Tampa Bay – February 22, 2010 – On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a solution to never experience the horrors of World War II again. At that time the United Nations asked all member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories.”
 
However, more than sixty years later, all 30 human rights according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still not a required subject in schools throughout Florida, the United States or most countries of the world.
 
“Students spend years in school learning about wars and who conquered whom, but they don’t learn about the solution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” said Dustin McGahee, President of Youth for Human Rights Florida and high school senior. “Understanding human rights is the first step to making them a part of everyday life.”

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Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs

Social settings have enormous power to promote or hinder positive youth development. Researchers and practitioners know a great deal about features of schools and programs for youth that affect development, but much less about how to transform settings to bring about these desirable features. This book shows how to harness the power of settings. It shifts the debate from simply enhancing youth outcomes at the individual level to improving the settings of youths’ daily lives. The book offers researchers and practitioners blueprints for creating and changing influential settings including classrooms, schools, universities, out-of-school time programs, ethnic systems of supplementary education, and other community-based programs.
Leading scholars in psychology, education, human development, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, and public policy discuss a wide array of social change strategies, and describe how to measure key features of settings as a target and guide for change. The authors also demonstrate how larger social structures – such as school districts, community coalitions, community data resources – can support change. Many of the chapters describe ways to make settings work for all youth, including those marginalized by reason of race, ethnicity, social class, or sexual orientation. Toward Positive Youth Development will guide researchers, educators, administrators and policy makers to improve schools and youth programs for all of America’s youth. » Read more: Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs

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