The expansion of human rights should no longer be viewed as a threat or harm to the governmental system, but should rather be recognized as an important asset for the development of an individual, a society and further a nation. The expansion of human...
The expansion of human rights should no longer be viewed as a threat or harm to the governmental system, but should rather be recognized as an important asset for the development of an individual, a society and further a nation. The expansion of human rights will be the foundation for an individual's happiness, a nation's betterment, and the world's peace for the new century . In other words, our renewed realization and practice of the expansion of human rights will not only benefit an individual's development and pursuit of happiness, but also a nation's development and further the world's peace. This voice advocating human right as a necessity for an individual's happiness and a society's development and the world's peace is increasing.
The following research will look at the concept and history of human rights as well as the meaning of human rights education. It will particularly focus on why the necessity of human rights education has to be emphasized in the Sociology department. The content and main concept of the research derives from the research and scholars that stress the importance of human rights as the basis for today's democratic society. Based on these main concepts, the content and organization of human rights education reflected in the 6th and 7th curricula of intermediate/Senior social science are analyzed.
The following are the synopsis of the research.
First of all, the 7th curriculum uses the term, ' respect for human rights', for the first time. This implies that consideration for human right education within the Sociology department is increasing when compared to that of previous curricular. In this research, the 6/7th curriculum regards to human rights education are studied through the network analysis. As a result, in most Sociology areas, it is found that the network of the human rights education's main concepts branches out as it develops.
Secondly, the network appears more inclusive in Politics and Law, which are non-mandatory subjects, than in Grade 9 Society and Grade 10 Society, which are mandatory subjects in the Intermediate/Senior levels. The concept of human rights should not only be considered in one specified subject, but rather it should be regarded as the founding concept that promotes good citizenship and decision making.
Thirdly, in dealing with human rights, both the 6th and 7th curricular confuse the meanings of following terms: human rights, basic rights, and basic human rights.
This research placed all the terms under the umbrella of basic rights, which is also used as a general term in all current text books.
Basic rights studied in the centrality analysis show accentuated centrality, which indicates that a lot of explanations appear abstract.
This provides us with an opportunity to consider more concrete and practical rather than abstract and ambiguous explanations about human right. Lastly, Sociology education needs to develop critical thinking regarding human rights and basic rights. The sociology education deals with various aspects of society including politics, economics, society, culture, and law. These aspects have to be taught from a human rights perspective developing critical thinking skills that enable students to appropriately look at conditions of a society. Also, human rights, responsibilities, the examples of infringement of human rights and their solutions, human rights security have to be emphasized. The research shows that the significance of the concepts such as laws relating to human rights, the history of human rights expansion, violation of human rights, escalates in the 7th curriculum as opposed to the 6th curriculum.