Friday, April 22
9-11:30 am
Zoom Meeting: https://salemstate.zoom.us/j/83687034292?pwd=bThxVDBOQXc4dkl5alQ0SCtFY0pMQT09
Meeting ID: 836 8703 4292 Passcode: 467853
Center for Childhood and Youth Studies Fellow Presentations
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12th Annual Sexual Freedom Summit
Woodhull Freedom Foundation is pleased to invite you to our 12th annual Sexual Freedom Summit (August 4 – 7, 2022) – the event where everything comes together in spectacular conversations about sexual rights.
At the Summit, we work toward identifying ways to expand freedom and eradicate injustice, and we put our bodies, our desires, and our personal autonomy at the core.
The Sexual Freedom Summit features human rights activists, sexuality educators and researchers, professionals from the legal and medical fields, authors, sexual freedom movement leaders, and organizational partners all working toward the time when sexual freedom is fully recognized as a fundamental human right.
This Summit is for EVERYONE interested in learning about the issues in the realm of sexual freedom, advancing their current knowledge, and gaining the tools to actually create the change we need to accomplish.
Recalibrating a Code of Character, Conduct, and Support: A Pathway to Equity
In what ways can creating and implementing a district Code of Character, Conduct, and Support serve as a catalyst for systemic change and create more equitable policies and practices that foster every student’s social, emotional, and academic growth?
Find out! Join an online convening on Recalibrating a Code of Character, Conduct, and Support: A Pathway to Equity conducted by Engaging Schools staff and sponsored by BOCES.
“The Code convening started or sparked a more thoughtful dialogue and the small group break-out discussions were very helpful. The hours flew by!” — Helen Deranian, CREST Collaborative, December 2021
There are two options to participate:
Thursday, April 7, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm – Nassau BOCES. For more information and to register, please click here.
Thursday, May 5, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm – Eastern Suffolk BOCES. For more information and to register, please click here.
Audience: District and school leaders and administrators; district teams recommended.
Learn more about working with Engaging Schools on District Codes of Character, Conduct, and Support.
Invitation to pilot lessons: Imagine: Reflections on Peace
The Educators’ Institute for Human Rights has partnered with the VII Foundation, an organization dedicated to building peace and ending conflict through photojournalism. EIHR has written lessons based on VII Foundation’s exhibit and website, Imagine: Reflections on Peace (www.reflectionsonpeace.org). The countries represented are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Colombia, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Rwanda; each country has foundational lessons (timeline and photo activities, etc.) as well as two extension lessons.
We would love help piloting these lessons. Teachers can choose a country and pilot the whole unit or select lessons, or can choose more than one country to teach. We ask that teachers provide feedback on a provided form once the lessons have been completed.
The lessons can be accessed at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dfbobooUxdYidj32LJXrmrk7DKeoQQ9C, and the evaluation form is at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0iU7IUlCFCkn1LnVcN07EUFbY9m2Tbhh21uUbyPaJQ8V80w/viewform.
Any questions can be directed to Kim Klett (kim@eihr.org).
WERA IRN Human Rights Education 2022 Webinar Series: Webinar 2
Examining relationships and sex education through a child rights lens: an intersectional approach Francesca Zanatta, Univ East London, UK
Wed, 6 April 2022
10:30 – 11:30 CDT
Register here
Examining relationships and sex education through a child rights lens: an intersectional approach
Francesca Zanatta, Cass School of Education and Communities, University of East London, UK.
In this presentation, Francesca Zanatta examines how teaching and learning about rights in an intersectional way can inform the topic of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE), drawing on her experiences of teaching an undergraduate child rights module. The module, designed for future educators, intersects elements of children’s rights education with the theoretical positions of queer studies and critical pedagogy. Drawing on data from two focus groups, consisting of students following the programme, she analyses students’ views and attitudes to RSE, using Foucault’s overarching concept of problematisation and the concept of sites of struggle. Data analysis reveals tensions and potential clashes between the students’ professional selves, their personal values, and elements of the theoretical framework adopted in the course. These tensions are nevertheless constructive, highlighting the potential of children’s rights education to contribute to transformative human development. The author’s full paper is Zanatta, F. (2021). Examining Relationships and Sex Education through a child rights lens: an intersectional approach. Human Rights Education Review, 4(1), 49–69. https://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.3991
It can be accessed at: https://humanrer.org/index.php/human/article/view/3991
Webinar recordings can be viewed on the YouTube Channel
About the organizers
The WERA IRN on Human Rights Education was established in Spring 2019 and launched in London in June that year. The coordinators are Professor Audrey Osler (USN, Norway, University of Leeds, UK ) and Professor Hugh Starkey (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, London, UK). The two pillars of the IRN are Human Rights Education Review and UCL’s International Conference on Education and Democratic Citizenship (ICEDC) conference.
HRE USA March Newsletter is out!
Visit this page to get up to date on the latest HRE USA news.
Amnesty International is seeking applicants for the Head of Human Rights Education!
This position involves developing and managing Amnesty’s Human Rights Education work around the world, including associated strategies, operational plans, and their evaluation and including a strong focus on Education Technology.
The Head of HRE will provide support to the Amnesty International movement for human rights education programming; provide support to regional and thematic human rights education projects; and support the integration and alignment of human rights education with Amnesty International’s global campaigns, regional strategies and growth strategy, and thematic priorities.
This is a permanent position where you will be managing a remote global team with matrix management responsibilities with staff in regional offices.
London and Oslo are preferable positions, but other Amnesty locations will be considered.
Closing Date: 7 April 2022
For a full job description and instructions about how to apply, visit this page.
Webinar: Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education: Reimagining Universities for Democracy and Human Rights
April 1, 9:00-10:30 am, Bangkok time
March 31,10:00-11:30 pm, New York, EDT.
Register at: https://bit.ly/3quvVvq
Against the backdrop of a changing educational landscape resulting from the pandemic as well as democratic backsliding, this webinar will engage in a conversation with two scholars, Dr. Felisa Tibbitts, UNESCO Chair of Human Rights and Higher Education at the Faculty of Law, Governance and Economics, University of Utrecht; and Dr. Khoo Ying Hooi, Head of the Department of International and Strategic Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and also Head of University of Malaya Research Group on Human Rights.
The session will be facilitated by Dr. Vachararutai (Jan) Boontinand, Director of Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University.
For more information: https://ihrp.mahidol.ac.th/…/critical-pedagogy-in…/
Critical Thinking Under Fire: Upholding Academic Freedom in the Classroom
Efforts to ban certain subjects from classroom discussion are underway. Critical thinking is being suppressed & educators are at risk.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Across the globe efforts are intensifying to censor study of controversial issues, notably those dealing with the study of racism and cultural diversity in public education. Providing education on these subjects is critical to confronting and dismantling systemic racism and building literacy on gender, sexuality, and identity diversity. These are core concepts embedded in human rights that are supported by international human rights guiding principles and standards.
In the US, a handful of states have recently passed legislation limiting or banning these subject areas and establishing punitive actions against educators who are seen as introducing these concepts into the classroom.
In this session we will hear from a panel of individuals who will help us to better understand the polarization of education in the US, how “divisive concepts” and CRT bans are being used to censor academic freedoms and penalize educators for doing their job to teach critical thinking. Join us and share your questions and thoughts about the role of the human rights community in this national discourse.
Speakers:
Astha Bhandari is a senior in high school and Amnesty International USA’s Legislative Coordinator for North Carolina. Astha is active with her school’s Amnesty International Student Group and is an advocate for greater academic freedom in the classroom.
Matthew Hawn: For 16 years, Matthew taught Economics, Contemporary Issues, and Personal Finance at Sullivan Central High School. On May 5, 2021, the Sullivan County Department of Education dismissed Matthew for teaching racial justice in his contemporary issues course. He is appealing the dismissal to the Sullivan County Chancery Court.
Svetlana Mintcheva is a strategy consultant working with program activities at the New York based non-profit, National Coalition Against Censorship (ncac.org) (where she was formerly director of programs). She writes on emerging trends in censorship, organizes public discussions and mobilizes support for individual artists, curators, authors, teachers and librarians. Dr. Mintcheva is the co-editor of Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression (The New Press, 2006) and of Curating Under Pressure: International Perspectives on Negotiating Conflict and Upholding Integrity (Routledge, 2020). An academic as well as an activist, Dr. Mintcheva has taught literature and critical theory at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria and at Duke University, NC from which she received her Ph.D. in critical theory in 1999, as well as at New York University. Her current research focuses on the challenges to the concept of free speech posed by social media, social justice movements and political polarization.
Jack L. Nelson: Distinguished Professor of Education, emeritus, Rutgers University. Co-author, Critical Issues in Education, 16 other books. Former professor, CSU, Los Angeles, University of Buffalo; Visiting scholar, Cambridge University, Stanford, Berkeley, Sydney, others. Former member, AAUP Committee A (academic freedom), NCSS Academic Freedom Committee, ACLU New Jersey board. Member, Amnesty International.
Dr. India Thusi is a Professor of Law at the Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law and a Senior Scientist at the Kinsey Institute. Her research examines racial and sexual hierarchies as they relate to policing, race, sexuality, and gender. She was selected as a Fulbright U.S. Global Scholar for 2020-2023.
Her past work has been selected for the 2020 Stanford/Harvard/Yale Junior Faculty Forum; Honorable Mention for the Law & Society John Hope Franklin Award; and the 2021 Equality Law Scholars’ Forum.
Professor Thusi is an award-winning writer and scholar, and she was recognized as a Top 40 Rising Young Lawyer by the American Bar Association in 2019 and a Top 40 Under 40 Emory University Alum in 2020.
Women’s History Month: Booklists
As we celebrate women and their contributions to the global community, these resources will help you teach about how women make history during this month — and all year long.
Women’s History Month: A Book Every Day
Women’s History and Women’s Lives – Children and Young Adults
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