International human rights education: an evaluation of treaty compliance in British Columbia's Kindergarten to Grade 12 Social Studies school curriculum

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dc.contributor.authorFriedmann, Lesley Barbara
dc.contributor.supervisorMcDonough, Graham Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-05T21:41:22Z
dc.date.available2016-05-05T21:41:22Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_US
dc.date.issued2016-05-05
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instructionen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I probe into British Columbia’s (BC) Kindergarten to Grade 12 Social Studies curriculum to determine how adequately it adheres to Canada’s international treaty obligations. I give particular attention to the duties regarding dissemination of information about, through, and for human rights principles and norms that are contained within the United Nations (UN) 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (Convention) and the UN 2011 Declaration of Human Rights Education and Training (DHRET). To accomplish this, I first develop a compliance assessment tool that is based on international human rights legal standards. This tool is then used in a normative inquiry into BC’s current Social Studies curriculum to assess the extent to which its educational aim, and its conception of the learner, learning process, learning environment, teacher’s role, and evaluation satisfies the international human rights education law requirements that are articulated in the treaties that Canada has ratified. The knowledge that is generated from this investigation is of value to BC’s Ministry of Education and members of the public who are involved in BC’s curriculum development and revision, because it creates a benchmark from which to “take more active measures to systematically disseminate and promote” (UN, 2012, paragraph 25) knowledge about international human rights in BC’s schools.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7290
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjecthuman rights educationen_US
dc.subjectcurriculumen_US
dc.subjectSocial Studies curriculumen_US
dc.subjectglobal citizenshipen_US
dc.subjectpeaceful coexistenceen_US
dc.subjecttransformative actionen_US
dc.subjecttreaty complianceen_US
dc.subjectdissemination of human rightsen_US
dc.titleInternational human rights education: an evaluation of treaty compliance in British Columbia's Kindergarten to Grade 12 Social Studies school curriculumen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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