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Human Rights in Education


A collaborative initiative to develop New Zealand schools and early childhood education centres as communities that know, promote and live human rights and responsibilities. Read about the Initiative.

Early Childhood Education (ECE)

In early childhood centres, teaching rights and responsibilities is aimed at fostering feelings of confidence and respect for self and others.  

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Primary & Intermediate

Rights, Respect, Responsibilities is not another programme to be fitted into an already crowded overall school programme.  It is a general whole-school approach to teaching, school organisation and learning, that brings coherence to many things schools do already.

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Secondary Schools

Since Auckland Girls Grammar School has become a partner school in Human Rights in Education, we have begun to build a framework that connects the classroom teaching of human rights with pastoral care, expected behavioural standards and the school’s values.  

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New Zealand Curriculum

The English-medium New Zealand Curriculum launched on 6 November 2007 is about human rights in its purpose, aims and much of its specific content.

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Human Rights Issues

Are there any human rights issues at your school or centre which need to be addressed? Read about some common human rights issues and take the human rights temperature of your school/centre.

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Frequently asked Questions

What are human rights? Human rights include a set of principles, standards and guidelines that set out how people should be treated and should treat each other.

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