Chuyên mục: Human rights education – giáo dục nhân quyền

A Conversation On Lessons from Finland – Finnish education reform

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ 2 bình luận

With John Graham – Published in Professional Voice, 10(1), pp. 46-53, summer 2014

JG Finland is seen to have one of the best schooling systems in the world. What elements of the Finnish system do you think make the difference and elevate the performance of its students above those in many other countries?

PS Finland may be seen as having the best school system in the world by foreign media and some others but certainly not by many Finns. When the OECD released its first PISA results in 2001, it struck many by surprise. Finns were among those, because Finland had never intended to be high in the PISA league tables. The way education is seen in Finland — among educators and citizens alike — is very different to how it is seen in many other places where nations compete against each other to see who will be the best. For the Finns, what matters in education is that all children have opportunities to succeed and that each of them feels happy and well in school. Tiếp tục đọc “A Conversation On Lessons from Finland – Finnish education reform” →

Religion and Human Rights: The challenges of universalism and cultural particularism

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Eleanor Roosevelt, the first chairperson of the UN Human Rights Commission and a driving force behind the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, holds the finished document. Courtesy of Wikimedia.

Tuesday 10 December 2013 is World Human Rights Day, marking the 65th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly vote to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In recognition of this milestone, this week The Religion Factor features a series of reflections from scholars and practitioners on the relationship between religion and human rights, particularly in developing contexts. In today’s post, Erin Wilson reflects on the debate over whether human rights really are universal and the role that religions can play in relating values and rights from their particular cultural contexts to the universal and back again. Tiếp tục đọc “Religion and Human Rights: The challenges of universalism and cultural particularism” →

UiO: Norwegian Center for Human Rights – The Faculty of Law

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The Vietnam Programme

With a focus on civil and political rights, the Vietnam Programme seeks  to support the development of a Vietnam governed according to the rule of law and human rights. By generating a space for discussion and facilitating the exchange of knowledge and experience, the Programme aims to contribute to a process driven by Vietnam itself and as reflected in their response to the Universal Periodic Review. Tiếp tục đọc “UiO: Norwegian Center for Human Rights – The Faculty of Law” →