Hi
Mike is quite right, the authors are indeed well respected and have
contributed greatly in some of the materials they offer. Indeed, the other
sections of the same handbook on teaching children's rights (e.g. in
relation gender or the concept of rights) are well thought through and
provide some really useful and nuanced activities and questions to promote
debate. What is interesting is that the section on disability differs so
markedly in both depth and approach from the other domains of children's
rights. Bear in mind that this is all there is in the disability section.
This is what surprised me (and I was genuinely surprised, given the wealth
of informative material that now exists from organisations such as the UN
Committee on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF, Disability Awarenes in Action,
the Alliance for Inclusive Education or the excellent new publication from
the International Save the Children Alliance).
Best Wishes
Mark Priestley
Centre for Disability Studies
University of Leeds
LEEDS
LS2 9JT
UK
tel: +44 113 233 4417
fax: +44 113 233 4415
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies
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Subject: Re: children's rights?
The extract that M. Priestley appears to characterise as "Back to square
one" was from a book written by two well-qualified and experienced
Bulgarian educators, who are concerned to help reduce the barriers of fear
and ignorance between children in their classrooms who may come from
different ethnicity, culture or have different abilities. At least one of
the writers has had some training and practice in youth work in England,
and has specialised in cross-cultural understanding and sensitivity.
It is possible that their life-experiences in Bulgaria during the past 40
years may have been a little different from that of M. Priestley and others
who have commented.
Why not make your views known to them directly at: [log in to unmask] -- they
are professionals at understanding other people's differing views and
attitudes, however poorly you can express yourself in Bulgarian. (Or write
in English -- they will quite understand).
m99m
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