Cross-Border Human Rights Education Conference 2006-09-11
Cross-Border Human Rights Education Conference
2006
Wellington Park Hotel, Belfast, 20th October 2006
Inspiring Practice:
Human Rights Education in Primary Schools
Hosts: Amnesty International, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Irish Human Rights Commission, Irish National Teachers’ Organisation, Ulster Teachers’ Union
Agenda
9.30 Coffee and Registration
10.00 Welcome: Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK
Introduction: Prof. Monica McWilliams, Chief Commissioner, Northern
Ireland Human Rights Commission
Dr Maurice Manning, President, Irish Human Rights
Commission
10.20 Keynote Speaker: Professor Audrey Osler, Director of the Centre for
Citizenship and Human Rights Education, University of Leeds
10.40 Inspiring Practice Exemplar 1:
Speaker:
John Clarke: Deputy Head of Children’s Services, Hampshire County Council
Theme: Human Rights Education as an integral part of school life.
10.55 Inspiring Practice Exemplar 2
Speaker:
Mary McCarthy, District Director of Community Relations and Character Education, Hudson Public School District, Massachusetts
Theme: How our school environment promotes the intellectual, ethical, civic, and social development of students
11.10 Questions and Answers to panel of first three speakers
Panel Chair: Jacquie Reid, President, Ulster Teachers’ Union
11.25 Coffee
11.45 Workshops : 1st Session
These workshops will be held simultaneously before lunch at 11.45 and after lunch at 2pm. Please choose one workshop to sign up to per session.
Workshop 1
Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Primary SchoolFacilitators:
Ian Massey, Head of Children’s Services, Hampshire County Council
Gaynor Davies, Children’s Services, Hampshire County Council /
Workshop 2
Connecting Schools and the Wider CommunityFacilitators:
Linda Corbin, Principal of Hubert Kindergarten Center, Hudson Public School District
Mary McCarthy, District Director of Community Relations and Character Education, Hudson Public School District
Workshop 3
Changing Teachers : Changing Schools Facilitators:Lesley McEvoy, Lecturer, Queen’s University, Belfast
Alison Gilliland, INTO Senior Official / Workshop 4
Children with a Say in their Schools
Facilitators:
Liz Morris, teacher and pupils, Griffeen Valley Educate Together Primary School, Dublin
John McGrady, teacher and pupils,
St. Mark’s PS, Twinbrook, Belfast
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Workshops : 2nd Session
3.15 Feedback on key issues raised during the workshops
3.30 Where do we go from here?: Comments from Robin Richardson, Director, Insted Consultancy
3.45 Where do we go from here? : Questions to panel of DENI/DES representatives, CCEA/NCCA representatives and Robin Richardson
Panel Chair: Denis Bohane, President, INTO
4.15 The Way Forward: Dr Colm O’Cuanacháin, Secretary General,
Amnesty International Irish Section
4.30 Close