WORLD HISTORY 3201
(DRAFT)
Topic/Concept: The need to apply human rights criteria to the study of history.
Outcomes
1. To link the analysis of historical trends in development to international human rights instruments (conventions).
2. To foster recognition that the north/south debate is reflected in the respective priorities of the conventions on Civil and Political Rights and on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights.
3. To increase awareness that global events and trends influence local human rights situations.
Curriculum Connections
1. Understand and appreciate the north/south relations between developed and developing countries (V #3.1)
2. Understand and appreciate the causes and consequences of a global economy (VI #1.1)
3. Understand and appreciate global environmental issues (VI #4.1)
4. Understand and appreciate the interdependence and complexities of social development in the global community (VI #5.1)
Strategies
Universal Declaration and
Conventions p73 All Readers Basic position of the north: Civil and political
Basic position of the south: social and econ.
Modern Alchemists . . . p73 ERR Global Craze
Development or . . . p79 ERR One industry towns
A Clean Get-Away p88 ERR Technology and pollution
The Fourth "R" p88 HRR Human rights and environment
What is a Refugee? p107 ERR Environmental refugees
Declaration: Development p136 ERR The Right to Development
Declaration: Social Progress p132 ERR Social Progress and Development
Economic Justice: p9 ERR The real cost of unemployment
Influencing the Destiny p28 ERR The right to form unions
Freedom of Association p13 HRR The right to form unions
Striking a Balance p19 HRR Rights and responsibilities
Implications for Teaching/Learning:
Modern world history is strongly influenced by the development of human rights as stated in the international instruments.
International human rights legislation provides the basis for common definitions of social development, human rights and needs of special groups such as women and persons with disabilities.
History must not be viewed as "events that happened in the past" but rather as a continuum of past events stretching through the present to the future.
Legend:
ERR The Road Untravelled: An Economic Rights Reader
CCR The Way We Are: A Cross Cultural Reader
HRR Freedom and Responsibility: A Human Rights Reader
SR Let's Stop Racism: A Teacher's Guide
GTGL Global Teacher, Global Learner