The purpose of this study is to inform the need for human rights education among other things in the times of the post-corona and the fourth industrial revolution, to supplement the limitations of human rights education at school sites, develop and ap...
The purpose of this study is to inform the need for human rights education among other things in the times of the post-corona and the fourth industrial revolution, to supplement the limitations of human rights education at school sites, develop and apply a small group human rights coaching program for teenagers outside of school, and examine changes in human rights sensitivity through their participation process. The following are the research problems set up to achieve this research objective.
First, how about changes in the human rights sensitivity of teenagers participating in the human rights coaching program?
Second, what is the experience and meaning of teenagers participating in the human rights coaching program?
The research method for carrying out this study was conducted through qualitative research, and as a tool for measuring human rights sensitivity, Moon Yong-rin (2002) conducted the 'Diagnosis of Human Rights Sensitivity for Middle School Students' of the Study on the Development of Human Rights Sensitivity Indicators' developed by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. In order to achieve the purpose of research, the human rights coaching program was conducted for four middle school students and four middle school students in S city, and data were collected and analyzed using qualitative research methods to identify the effectiveness of the program.
The results of this study are as follows.
First, teenagers who participated in human rights coaching programs have improved their awareness of the situation, which is a sub-factor of human rights sensitivity. This can create an attitude of understanding the situation with the human rights of oneself and others in mind on various issues arising from daily life through human rights coaching programs.
Second, teenagers who participated in human rights coaching programs have improved their awareness of human rights, which is a sub-factor of human rights sensitivity. This means that the human rights coaching program has helped to improve the ability to understand the consequences of coping with problematic situations on oneself and others.
Third, teenagers who participated in the activities of the human rights coaching program have improved their ability to sense responsibility, which is a sub-factor of human rights sensitivity. It can be seen that this is linked to the willingness to take responsibility for human rights-friendly behavior and to put it into practice through human rights coaching programs.
Also, the experience and meaning of participating teenagers are as follows:
Participating teenagers were not interested in human rights in their speech after the program, but now they know what human rights are, and they have thought deeply about human rights and felt the importance of it, so they want to apply it usefully in their lives. In the future, he also showed his commitment to respect and care for the human rights of others, to recognize their differences and not discriminate against them. This attitude shows that participating teenagers have improved their cognitive ability to understand human rights violations and their ability to empathize with others' pain and pain.
Based on the above summary, it was confirmed that the human rights coaching program contributed to improving the human rights sensitivity of teenagers. The study is meaningful in showing one example that the short-term human rights coaching program helps improve human rights sensitivity.