15Jun 2017

HUMAN RIGHTS & TEACHER EDUCATION.

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A Global movement has been started from last five & half decades for the institutionalization of human rights in the social and political order. The Universal Declaration of human lights adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 10 Dec. 1948, was the first attempt at the international level to give a most authentic enumeration of basic human rights & freedoms and so has been rightly called ?International Magna Carta of All Mankind?. Human right is the comprehensive concept which look out for all the parts of society regardless of sex, caste, creed, language or religion etc. It is the right that belongs to each & every person and is not governed by any government authority. As all knows that in Indian educational system, teacher is the prime factor in the teaching-learning process. So, the teachers will be well-equipped with the human rights. As teacher should known about human rights, so in the field of teacher education, if we promote the content of human rights education, why & who needs it, role & responsibilities of educators in human right education, challenges faced, strategies and methods implemented at various teaching levels will inculcate automatically in students with positive impact. So, it is widely accepted way to improve the education system is to improve the quality and effectiveness of educational program for human rights is to reach teacher & teachers education as no educational system can rise above the teacher.


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[Nidhi Madan. (2017); HUMAN RIGHTS & TEACHER EDUCATION. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jun). 555-560] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Nidhi Madan
DEPT. OF EDUCATION,

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4448      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4448