Caring for young people's rights
Subtitle: a unit for elementary and secondary students on the rights of young people around the world and what can be done to secure these rights
By: authors, Jan Nicol, Dan Kirk ; editor, Roland Case.
Contributors: Case, Roland, 1951-; Kirk, Dan.; RichThinking Resources.; Critical Thinking Consortium.
Series: Critical challenges across the curriculum series
Publisher: Critical Thinking Cooperative; RichThinking Resources
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Richmond, B.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Children's rights -- Study and teaching (Elementary).; Children's rights -- Study and teaching (Secondary).
Description: This resource fosters understanding of the nature and range of basic human rights and appreciation of the importance of protecting these rights. Human rights are personalized through real-life profiles of young people in a variety of developing countries. Students then translate the shortfalls in these young people's daily lives into statements about the rights that everyone needs in order to enjoy a minimum quality of life. Students examine successful development projects by Canadian NGOs and then assume the role of development director in planning a project to secure the rights of one of the profiled young people that students have read about.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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