UNICEF has developed a child rights’ education toolkit on Rooting Child Rights in Early Childhood Education, Primary and Secondary Schools.
This Toolkit focuses on child rights education in the formal learning environment (early childhood education settings, primary and secondary schools), it is hoped that it will also be useful for those working to promote child rights education through other channels, such as in the media, with children’s organizations and through children’s involvement in advocacy.
This Toolkit supports efforts to achieve the education outcomes of the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2014–2017 and will contribute signifi cantly to achieving the goals of the UNICEF Private Fundraising and Partnerships Plan 2014–2017.
The toolkit uses the metaphor of a tree to explore child rights education in the context of school-based initiatives that promote learning about rights, learning through rights (using rights as an organizing principle to transform the culture of learning) and learning for rights (taking action to realize rights), in an overall context of learning as a right. It contains a range of practical tools, checklists, mapping exercises, project examples and evidence of the benefits of high quality child rights education.
Although the approaches in the toolkit are relevant for all countries, the first edition focuses on the work of National Committees in high-income countries. A second edition in the future will also cover the related work of UNICEF country offices.
You can download this toolkit for free here.
