Human Rights Education to the Student teachers of Arts and Science Streams in Relation to Select Instructional Approaches

M.CHANDRAVATHANA

Volume : V, Issue : I, January - 2015

Human Rights Education to the Student teachers of Arts and Science Streams in Relation to Select Instructional Approaches

M. Chandravathana

Abstract :

Human rights, a universal phenomenon are most often violated than observed and the existing condition is not conducive to women folk. Hence the need of the hour is to sensitize them towards human rights education. One important mechanism to address the issue of human rights needs to be introducing Human rights Education in teacher training programme which would enable the student teachers keep informed of the human rights concepts who in the near future will pass on the message to the thousands and thousands of children. In this context the question arises what approach is to be adopted for imparting Human rights Education effectively. Hence this study is undertaken with the main objective of finding out the effective instructional approach with a sample of 208 student teachers of Arts and Science Streams in Coimbatore. Syllabus on human rights was framed in consultations with the experts and a Knowledge Assessment tool was used to find out the effectiveness. It was found out that the Multi media approach was significantly effective followed by Cooperative Learning and Situational Approach .