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Sponsors and Organizers
Long Island University's C. W. Post's Educational Technology Department
The Electronic Educational Village
The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights
Searingtown School
Herricks Community Fund
International Center for Child Labor & Education
Trainer/Facilitator
Chivy Sok
UI Center for Human Rights
8:30 am Arrival and Coffee
8:45 am Introduction
9:00 am What is Child Labor? Introduction to the Global
Scene
Defining the issue and exploring the scope and magnitude of this contemporary
international human rights violation.
10:30 am Stolen Childhoods (Documentary Screening)
Stolen Childhoods is the first feature documentary on global child labor
ever produced. The film features stories of child laborers around the world,
told in their own words. Children are shown working in dumps, quarries,
brick kilns.
12:00 pm Lunch break
1:00 pm Human Rights Education
Introduction to international human rights and education for social change
2:00 pm Youth Participation and Social Change
Explore experiences where teaching about child labor has resulted in concrete
youth actions and empowerment. Discuss how students have made a difference
on child labor, and in turn, how child labor can make a difference in them.
If time allows, we will also explore how youth around the world are responding
to this global issue by focusing on the 2004 Children’s World Congress
on Child Labor.
3 pm Teaching for Impact – Using the UICHR Child Labor Modules
Break up into small groups based on grade levels and subjects
4:30 pm Strategizing Curriculum Implementation in your Classrooms
Group presentation & building consensus for community-wide project.
5:30 pm Closing & Adjournment