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Human Rights Education in Schools The Institute of Human Rights Education has introduced “A National Programme for Human Rights Education” in schools in the states of Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Gujarat, Chattisgarh, Kerala, Pondicherry, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tripura, Maharashtra,Delhi and West Bengal. In W.B. we want to impart Human Rights knowledge and skills to students of the sixth standard in 56 Govt.-aided, Govt. schools and private schools. Accordingly, we have met Mr. A. S. Biswas, Director of School Education, who helped us communicate with the three District Inspectors of Education: North and South 24 Parganas and Howrah, who have selected 42 schools and 14 private schools in the city. To initiate the programme, a State Level Introductory Seminar cum Headmasters’ Orientation Programme was held on 18th July 06 to which Mr. Rabilal Maitra, Minister In-charge, Department of Law & Judiciary, Government of West Bengal, Mr. K. P. Sinha, Director of Social Welfare, Government of West Bengal, were Guests of Honour. Also present were Mr. Henri Tiphagne, Executive Director of People’s Watch Tamil Nadu and Dr. Vasanti Devi, Chairperson of State Women’s Commission, Tamil Nadu. The importance of Human Rights Education to Students was highlighted. A class demonstration was given to show the methodology of imparting the lessons according to the basic plan used in the “We are the World”. The 48 headmasters present expressed their appreciation for the course and pledged their involvement, promising to send their teachers for training. Consequently, a teachers’ training was held in two batches of 3 days each from 7th to 9th August 2006 and from 21st to 23rd August 2006 with 2 more days planned in November. These classes have helped motivate and train them in the skills of teaching the modules and all have returned full of enthusiasm to try out the lessons which will be adapted for use in West Bengal. Update December ‘06 : The teachers returned in November full of enthusiasm and reported an intense interest on the part of their Class VI students. The lessons have now been translated into Bengali and the books will be printed for distribution in January. We have now begun work on the Class VII lessons which will be introduced in the new school year. Christine D’Rozario Shikshalaya
Prakalpa We are now working on identity cards for each child in the Shikshalaya Prakalpa. We have covered almost 95% of the total centres. These identity cards will provide the following information about the child : Father / Mother’s name, Date of birth, the centre which the child is attending, home address, along with their passport size photo. As we now have 26,500 children in all our Shikshalaya Prakalpa Centres, the need for a database for all children is being met by the creation of 26,500 Identity Cards. This has involved our Academic Resource Group of Loreto Sealdah in visiting 450 centres taking the photos – a mammoth task but very useful as we can now keep track of all the children we have brought into school and hopefully be able to identify all those who are not yet catered to. Educational Show Science Apparatus Apart from distributing books
in the mobile libraries, we are also issuing Science Apparatus on a
regular basis to centres where children have reached Class III and IV.
Our Library group demonstrates the Science Apparatus to the centres
before distributing it, so that the children can practically experiment
with the apparatus by themselves.
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