RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
My Rights - Part 3: 13-18 year olds. A booklet about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
ISPCC - 20 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.
Basic Human Rights and Responsibilities - A Human Rights Module for Civic, Social and Political Education (1998)
This module was produced for 1st year CSPE. It includes a core unit which covers: Needs and Rights, UN Declaration of Human Rights and Why a Declaration? This is followed by three optional pathways: Children and Human Rights, Specific Groups and their Rights and Gender and Human Rights. It includes information, activities, case studies and ideas for Action Projects. Available from the Curriculum Development Unit, Sundrive Rd., Crumlin, Dublin 12. Tel: 01- 4535487 or email: info@cdu.cdvec.ie
Making Human Rights Work-A Handbook of Human Rights
Education Methodologies and Activities for 2nd and 3rd Year CSPE Teachers.
CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit. Available from the Curriculum Development Unit, Sundrive Rd., Crumlin, Dublin 12. Tel: 01- 4535487 or email: info@cdu.cdvec.ie
A Human Rights Action Project - A Module for 2nd Year (1999)
A human rights education module for 2nd year CSPE. This resource includes a four step process for doing a class action project on human rights, responsibilities and community. Within it there are ideas and methodologies for the teacher and worksheets for the student. Available from the Curriculum Development Unit, Sundrive Rd., Crumlin, Dublin 12.
Know Racism - The National Anti-Racism Awareness
Programme
The Equality Authority - www.equality.ie.
What? Me A Racist? A humourously written cartoon book for young people which helps them to explore the issues of racism and prejudice. It also includes useful information on the issues.
European Commission, Publications Unit, Rue de la Loi 200, B-1049 Brussels.
People on the Margins, No Place, No Power - Trócaire's Lenten Campaign 2003. Examines the key issues which affect indigenous peoples.
See also www.rainforestfoundationuk.org for information about indigenous populations of the rainforest.
Child Poverty in Ireland - Combat Poverty Agency, Bridgewater Centre, Conyngham Rd. Islandbridge, Dublin.
Counted Out - Challenging Poverty and Social Exclusion (2002)
A resource pack that explores poverty and social exclusion.
The activities are designed to help students to develop their understanding of poverty in Ireland today. It explores ways in which students might get involved in a process of change by engaging with anti-poverty/community development initiatives. Many ideas for action projects are included throughout. Available from the Curriculum Development Unit, Sundrive Rd., Crumlin, Dublin 12. Tel: 01- 4535487
or email: info@cdu.cdvec.ie
Rafiki - CD ROM, Trocaire 1999. This interactive CDROM introduces children to new friends around the world. It invites children to explore aspects of people's lives in 5 different countries and to discover our links with the wider world.
Our World Our Rights (1996). This book is designed to introduce children to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and helps them to understand the concepts of rights and responsibilities. The handbook includes photocopiable resources, guidelines for teachers, games and activities. Available from Trocaire, 12 Cathedral Street, Dublin 1. Tel: 01-8743875 or email: info@cs.trocaire.org
It's only Right - A Practical Guide to Learning About the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This guide for leaders and teachers working with young people offers a range of activities which help them to understand the convention and consider its relevance to their own lives and the lives of other children and young people. Available from UNICEF.
Yes, You Do Count - A Teaching Programme on Human Rights
Irish Commission for Justice and Peace, 1995. Available from Trócaire.
All Work and No Play - Child Labour in the 21st Century This theme pack for One World Week 2001 contains activities to raise awareness with young people about child labour in the world today. Through simulation games, drama and role play, artwork and ranking exercises students can investigate the causes and incidence of child labour, its consequences. DEFY, 2001, available from the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI). Tel: 01-4784122
Child Labour - A Global Concern www.schoolisthebestplacetowork.org
Slavery - A resource on Slavery and Human Rights. Trócaire Education pack, 2000.
To Feel at Home - An educational pack designed for pupils aged 14-18 years. The pack consists of a 45 minute video entitled "To Feel at Home". The film, produced in three fifteen minute segments, ("Flight and Arrival", "Making a New Life", and "Looking to the Future") is designed for classroom use. www.unchr.ch
SVP Education Pack
This pack offers educators a practical way to enable and support students in creating a more just and participative society for all. It consists for a 6-week programme which aims to avoid stereotypical misrepresentation of 'poor' people, by naming in some small way the complex reality of poverty.
SVP, 8 New Cabra Road, Dublin 7. 01-8389896 Fax 01- 8389950 svdep@iol.ie
New Releases
This pack has been produced to promote awareness of the United Nations Decade for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010) The Education Team, New Releases Schools Project, 224 Lisburn Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland BT9 6GE - Tel: 04890 663465 info@peacepeople.com, www.newreleases.tv
HUMAN DIGNITY
Counted Out - Challenging Poverty and Social Exclusion (2002)
A resource pack which explores poverty and social exclusion. The activities are designed to help students to develop their understanding of Poverty in Ireland today. It explores ways in which students might get involved in a process of change by engaging with antipoverty/community development initiatives. Many ideas for action projects are included throughout. CDU, Sundrive Rd., Crumlin, Dublin 12. 01- 4535487 info@cdu.cdvec.ie.
Special Olympics World Summer Games - School Enrichment Programme CSPE
Specifically produced for CSPE teachers and students. The programme includes a range of lesson plans and a video designed to explain learning disability. 01 - 8691662 brownpl@eircom.net www.
2003specialolympics.com.
Seeing Sense - Challenging Prejudices
This pack challenges the participants to examine their perceptions, to realise that things are not always as they seem and to discover that false perceptions can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
Derry City Council and Holywell Trust, 2001, Geraldine O' Kane, 048-71361046 seeingsense@btconnect.com.
It's Not Fair - A Handbook on World Development for Youth Groups.
A collection of activities and simulation games exploring world development issues. Issues include: trade, food, debt, conflict, refugees, human rights. health care, the environment, faith and politics.
Trócaire - www.trocaire.org.
Why Care?
A resource pack that challenges teachers and students to address some of the problems of older people living alone through a range of student centred classroom activities. ALONE 1, Willie Bermingham Place, Kilmainham Lane, Dublin 8. 01-6791032.
STEWARDSHIP
www.trocaire.ie - fact sheets, stories from around the world, activities and ideas for taking action on the
environment.
Good for Farm Animals, Good for Us - The future for farm animal welfare in Ireland
This animal welfare pack is suitable for all secondary school age students.
Compassion in World Farming, Salmon Weir, Hanover Street, Cork. 021-4272441, ciwf@indigo.ie
A better place to live - Your home and the environment. ENFO Information on the Environment, 17 St. Andrew Street, Dublin 2 1890200191(lo-call) or 01 8882001 Fax - 01 8883946 info@enfo.ie www.enfo.ie
A shopping and investment guide to sustainable living.
ENFO Information on the Environment, 17 St. Andrew Street, Dublin 2 Tel: 01 8882001 or email: info@enfo.ie www.enfo.ie
Green Schools
An Taisce
email: greenschools@antaisce.org
DEVELOPMENT
Wananchi - Human Development, Interdependence and Ireland Aid.
A resource pack which explores the concepts of Interdependence and Development. The pack focuses on the work of Ireland Aid, the aid programme of the Irish Government. The pack contains a variety of teaching ideas and activities and includes student worksheets. There is an entire section on Action Projects.
School Census Week 2002. This module has been written to enable students and teachers to explore the use of a Census. It focuses on how census information enables local and central government to plan future developments. Government of Ireland, 2002, www.cso.ie
Fala Favela - Photographs and activities on shantytown life in Brazil. Fala Favela introduces the life of the community of Vila Prudente in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The testimonies, case studies, photographs and activities in the pack raise questions about poverty, wealth, development, struggle, equality and solidarity.
Trócaire. www.Keepourword.org - a campaign web site set up by Trócaire to lobby world leaders to deliver on their promises to the developing world.
DEMOCRACY
Vote: Exploring Democracy, Equality, Participation and Elections - This pack was produced to coincide with the local and European elections of 2004 and explores the various issues mentioned in the title. Available from the Curriculum Development Unit, Sundrive Rd., Crumlin, Dublin 12. 01- 4535487 info@cdu.cdvec.ie
Youth, Participation, Citizenship, Democracy - Learning the Skills of Active Democratic Participation.
This pack has been produced to offer helpful advice, and to support the development of school-based Student Councils National Youth Council (NYCI), 2001 NYCI 01-4784122 info@nyci.ie
Politics in Progress - A programme of civic education for second level schools provided by Fianna Fail for students of CSPE. It outlines information about the structures of the Irish political system, it also suggests activities, which may be used by teachers of CSPE and Transition year politics, to encourage students to l earn more about politics and participate in the civic society. Fianna Fail Headquarters, 65-66 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2. 01-6761551 Fax 016785690 ogra@fiannafail.ie www.fiannafail.ie
Student Councils - A voice for students.
Guidelines for schools in how to set up and manage effective Student Councils.
Department of Education and Science - 01-8734700 or www.education.gov.ie
The Raspberry Ice Cream War
A comic for young people on a peaceful Europe without frontiers. This book uses a comic story to get across an understanding of the European Union and democracy to young readers. The issues of conflict prevention, the environment and international relations are all featured. European Commission, Publications Unit, Rue do la Loi 200, B-1049 Brussels.
The European Union - Your Passport to Europe - A fun introduction to the European Union.
The European Parliament Office, 43 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2. www.eurioarl.ie
LAW
Explaining the Courts.
This information booklet is intended to give general information and guidance to the public about the courts system. The Courts Service, the Law Society of Ireland and the Bar Council of Ireland, 2003.
Exploring Humanitarian Law - A worldwide education resource produced by the International Committee of the Red Cross. This pack is aimed at helping young people to explore the world of humanitarian law and actions and the humanitarian responses to conflicts of war and humanitarian crises.
Irish Red Cross - 16 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Tel: 01 6765135 or email: red.cross@iol.ie www.redcross.ie
INTERDEPENDENCE
Exploring Interdependence - A Development Education
Module for 3rd Year Civic, Social and Political Education (1998)
This module, which includes three individual activities, an action project and ongoing activity, explores the links that exist across communities and borders, and the effects that actions taken in one place can have on another. Available from the Curriculum Development Unit, Sundrive Rd., Crumlin, Dublin 12. 01- 4535487 info@cdu.cdvec.ie
Changing Perspectives - Cultural Values, Diversity and Equality in Ireland and the Wider World (2001)A resource pack which explores interculturalism. These activities explore cultural diversity and equality in relation to the values and structures of Irish society and Ireland's relationship with the wider world.
Curriculum Development Unit, Sundrive Rd. Crumlin, Dublin 12. Email: info@cdu.cdvec.ie
Exploring Cultural Values in the Community - A Module on Community and Culture for CSPE. This module enables students to begin the process of understanding Irish culture through exploring cultural values within their own communities. The module is designed to highlight for students the realities of cultural values within their communities. It allows them to compare the images they have of being Irish with the reality as experienced at community level. Curriculum Development Unit, Sundrive Rd. Crumlin, Dublin 12. Email: info@cdu.cdvec.ie
Big World, Small World - An Education Pack for One World Week 2002.
Activities, information and action ideas for young people on the theme of globalisation. National Youth Council of Ireland - 01 - 478122, www.youth.ie
Exploring Our World - Investigating issues of Interdependence and Social Justice in the 21st Century
An activity-based learning geography resource which is equally useful in CPSE. Topics include: inequality, sustainable development, resources, trade, child labour, debt, aid, women at work, and refugees and asylum seekers. One World Centre, Northern Ireland, Belfast, 048 - 90241879 ccuthbert@belfastdec.org
The Chocolate Game - An activity about the cocoa trade. This activity has been developed to enable students to gain an understanding of the way in which international trade in a crop grown for export affects families in four countries: Belize, Brazil, Britain and Ghana. Issues explored include: interdependence, power, international trade, injustice and Fair Trade. Leeds Development Education Centre, Revised 2001. Available from Trócaire, 01 - 2883577 info@trocaire,ie
Take Action for Goal - Action Projects for CSPE
This pack introduces young people to the problems faced by their counterparts in the poorest parts of the world. The pack encourages the students put things in perspective and take an active part in shaping a better tomorrow. GOAL, PO Box 19, Dun Laoghaire, 01 - 2809779 info@goal.ie
No Logo Day - This pack encourages the student to ask questions about who decides what is cool, to develop their own creative style and to discourage bullying of those who don't wear all the right logos.
www.nologoday.com
Winners All - Co-operative games for all ages. A useful booklet of co-operative and trust-building games for all ages. Trocaire, 01 - 2883577 info@trocaire,ie
One World Week Theme Pack- Each year for One World Week, The National Youth Council of Ireland, (NYCI) produces a themepack for youth leaders and teachers which contains a range of activities and information on the relevant theme. Tel: 01-4784122 www.youth.ie
Global Express - A quarterly publication for teachers and students that covers topical global issues and events. It aims to enable young people to gain a greater understanding of the context in which news stories from the developing world happen and to build links between their experience of life in Ireland and their understanding of development issues. Curriculum Development Unit, Mary Immaculate College, South Circular Road, Limerick. Tel: 061 204550 Fax: 061 204960. www.cdu.mic.ul.ie
OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES
Guide to Development Education Resources 2004-2005
A comprehensive list of all resources for use in justice and human rights education. A specific section deals with CSPE resources and points to where they are available. Published by Trócaire and Development Cooperation Ireland.
Developing Facilitation Skills - A handbook for group facilitators. This book is aimed at facilitators who wish to develop their skills in this area. It provides a programme of skills development and advises on creating realistic goals in terms of group development. Adult and Community Education, Combat Poverty Agency. Tel: 01 6706746
Training for Transformation - Handbook for community workers. A set of four books, which provides a training and organisational programme for groups based on the original ideas of Paulo Freire. The programme seeks to enable groups to build trust, reflect on relevant problems and issues in their lives and to plan effective and responsible action for change. Adult and Community Education, Mambo Press, 1999, Available from Trócaire.
Partners, Companion to Training for Transformation
A community education handbook with ideas and active learning methodologies useful for CSPE.
Published by Partners, Training for Transformation, 2001.
Guidelines on Traveller Education in Second-Level Schools
A booklet that provides guidelines for schools on Traveller Education.
Directory of National Voluntary Organisations, Societies. Information on every voluntary organisation.
N.S.S.B. 7th Floor Hume House, Dublin 4.
In.Tuition, The Irish Independent, Dublin, since 1999. A supplement produced specifically for Civic, Social and Political Education that 'brings the world into the classroom'.
WEBSITES
www.slss.ie
Click on CSPE Support. This is the website of the Support Service and contains the original Exemplar
materials and other important documentation.
www.cspeteachers.ie
This is the website of the Association of CSPE Teachers (ACT). Lots of useful information is provided here.
- www.trocaire.org
- www.developmenteducation.ie
- www.antislavery.org
- www.oneworld.net/guides/child_rights/index
- www.us.ilo/ilokidsnew/index
- www.child-soldiers.org
- www.rugmark.org
- www.labourbehindthelable.org
- www.savethechildren.org.uk
- www.unicef.org/crc
- www.crin.org
- www.amnesty.ie
- www.bbc.co.uk/education/human rights/
- www.pdhre.org
- www.mightymedia.com/act/
- www.unhchr.ch/
- www.enfo.ie
- www.biodiversity.org
- www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.net
- www.un.org
- www.europa.eu.int
- www.europeanmovement.ie
- www.european-studies.org
- www.irlgov.ie
- www.cso.ie
- www.examinations.ie.