AMMAN — On Sunday, the Economic and
Social Rights Directorate at the
National Center for Human Rights presented
several recommendations to the
Ministry of Education regarding the right to
education in all its aspects, based on an evaluation it undertook in
cooperation with the ministry.
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NCHR Media and Communication Officer
Ahmed Fahim said that the right to education is one of the most essential
rights that the NCHR monitors and follows up on, in terms of quality of
education, quality of teaching methods, and everything else that enables
students to attain their right to education of the highest standards.
Director of the center's Economic
and Social Rights Department Mohamed El-Helw said the department conducted an
assessment of the “reality” of the right to education, using a program to
measure the individual progress of the components of education, along with the UN
human rights education program.
The department’s recommendations
emerged from the extent of the need to address the gaps in the education
process and the center’s lack of data and studies in this specific field; thus,
the center will be able to rely on available data when it studies progress for
the next evaluation.
The center also stressed that the Ministry
of Education needs to allocate a budget for human rights education programs and
to create a “Human Rights Administration” unit within the organizational
structure of the ministry, responsible for human rights and human rights
education.
According to Helw, evaluation
included five main aspects: policies, educational curricula, teacher training,
student assessment, and the educational environment.
The aspect of the curricula included
training teachers and supervisors on human rights concepts and methodologies in
education and administration, and working to provide targeted educational
resources that address values and ethics to enhance and link them to
students' lives.
The teacher training aspect includes
creating a training curriculum for teachers on the principles of education and
human rights standards and mechanisms and offering a specialized human rights
training program for teachers, that “should be a continuous and binding program”.
Concerning the assessment of
students, the center recommended finding a tool to measure the extent of
students' knowledge of human rights concepts and mechanisms within the national
examination in all primary and secondary schools.
"After this official paper is
delivered with the recommendations presented to the Ministry of Education, we
will work hand in hand with the ministry to develop plans and work programs for
the next phase to address and fill all the gaps," Helw concluded.
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