Grade 11 Archive
Civic Education: Refugees
The resource contains overall unit plans and objectives and practical lesson plans for teaching and learning about refugees. Topics are related to broader topics of civic education as justice, equality, tolerance, freedom, minority rights and the formation of community.
A Different Conversation
"A Different Conversation" documentary explores the experiences of college students on a trip to Jerusalem, evoking individual and collective narratives as to how religion is both relevant and alive today. Within the context of Jerusalem’s political tensions, the students explored … Continue reading
The European Wergeland Centre Share & Connect Database
The European Wergeland Centre (EWC) has just launched Share & Connect, a database for experts in the field of Education for Human Rights, Intercultural Understanding and Democratic Citizenship, including the dimension of religion to all of these. Share & Connect … Continue reading
Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa
A Pew Forum survey of respondents in 19 Sub-Saharan African countries on the role of religion and tolerance has resulted in this report. The report has a detailed and sometimes unexpected portrait. Besides offering background information, the report is a … Continue reading
Holocaust
Materials developed by Jewish Museum Educators can be used to supplement and enhance class' ongoing studies in history, art, and literacy.
Encyclopedia of Shinto
This website provides a comprehensive dictionary of Shinto, a Japanese religion, in English and some other foreign languages. It offers not only articles but also pictures and short videos.
Audio Glossary
Audio Glossary contains the meaning of the words when studying religions and learning about religions as well as sound files, which help learning to pronounce the words.
Using personal photography in the classroom as a compelling conceptual enquiry stimulus
The resource is a case study about developing a compelling learning experience. The aim of the learning experience is “to enable students to drive the learning process through astute questioning and critical thinking and to enable students to enquire into … Continue reading
3 World Religions
"The flipchart begins by examining a few world religions. Students can make comparisons between them. The focus then shifts to three world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam."
Human Rights Education in the School Systems of Europe, Central Asia and North America: A Compendium of Good Practice
This collection of 101 good practices in Human Rights Education from Europe, North America and Central Asia is a resource for practitioners and policymakers as well as a platform for exchange among institutions and individuals. Sections include Laws, guidelines and … Continue reading