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Call for Proposals: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy | Application Deadline: February 25, 2025

Political Science Now

The purpose of this symposium is to share approaches to the teaching of human rights and to develop pedagogical materials for the discipline. APSA Teaching & Learning Symposium: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy Date: Thursday, June 19 – Saturday, June 21, 2025 Location: APSA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

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Why a Teacher-First Approach Is a Win for Edtech and Education

ED Surge

Taken to the extreme, when edtech willfully makes product decisions that are not in the best interest of educators and their students, it only serves to contribute to the brokenness of a system that too often fails at providing the basic human right of education to learners across the world.

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Why Accessibility Must Be a Part of Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity Initiatives

ED Surge

Organizations that embrace the promotion of DEI tend to establish and follow a core set of guiding principles, particularly in the creation of their educational products, that resemble the following: Respect for human rights; they endeavor to create content that is free of discrimination, implicit or explicit prejudice and bias.

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How Offline-First Edtech Addresses Education Disparities Worldwide

ED Surge

Unsurprisingly, the United Nations asserts that quality education is not only a fundamental human right but also a crucial catalyst for economic growth and development. Download the latest version of Kolibri. We welcome open-source contributors to our GitHub Kolibri repository; you can get started here. Already using Kolibri?

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

We offer instructions and downloadable materials to create a pop-up Teach Banned Books display. Download and open the slides. Download and open the slides. To add your own picture, right click the image, select “change picture” or “replace image” and choose a file from your computer. Students as Historians.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

Find an event near you and show up Go to a historic site and take a photo with a Teach Truth sign that you make or download. We offer instructions and downloadable materials to create a pop-up Teach Banned Books display. PREPARE MATERIALS AND MORE FOR THE DAY OF ACTION Make signs or download them , from this graphics toolkit.

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Qatar 2022: Controversial geographies And data

Geogramblings

And at the end of this post there will be something you can download to play around with yourself or with students. Looking back at the resources that I created (below), I attempted to highlight the issues surrounding human rights alongside logistical controversies such as the climate and resources. Stick with it.