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Edition
03: 22 December, 2013.
01. E-course : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev)
SECTION A : DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS.
Study value :
04 points out of 18.
Indicative
study time: 112 hours out of 504.
Study points
are awarded only after the consolidated exam for Section A : Development
Problems has been passed.
First block : Poverty and quality of life.
Study value :
02 points out of 18.
Indicative
study time: 57 hours out of 504.
Study points are
awarded only after the consolidated exam for Section A : Development
Problems has been passed.
First block : Poverty and quality of life. [57 hours]
First Block : Section 1.
Analysis of the causes of poverty. [26.50 hours]
First Block : Section 2. Services needed for a good quality of
life. [26.50 hours]
First Block : Exam. [ 4 hours each attempt]
First Block : Section 2. Services needed for a good quality of
life. [26.50 hours]
Part 1 : Introduction
to the services needed for a good quality of life. [06.50 hours]
01. The bases of a good
quality of life.
05. Typical drawing of a well/borehole
area.
09. Complete system for waste
recycling.
Part 1 :
Introduction to the services needed for a good quality of life. [06.50 hours]
11. Education for all.
(At least 30 minutes).
The fifth factor considered necessary to a good quality of life is universal
education.
Take a look at slide :
The 58 member states who then formed
the general assembly of the United Nations adopted the Declaration
of human rights during their meeting held at the Palais
de Chaillot in Paris (resolution 217 A (III)) in
1948.
Article 26 of the Declaration
reads :
“Article 26
1)
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least the in
the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be
compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally
available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis
of merit.
2)
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality
and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms .
It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations,
racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United
Nations for the maintenance of peace.
3) Parents have a prior right to
choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.”
Principle 7 of the Declaration
of the rights of the child proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United
Nations on 20 November 1959 [resolution 1386 (XIV) reads:
“Principle 7
The child is entitled to receive education,
which shall be free and compulsory, at least in the elementary stages. He shall
be given an education which will promote his general culture and enable him, on
a basis of equal opportunity, to develop his abilities, his individual
judgement, and his sense of moral and social responsibility, and to become a
useful member of society.
The best interests of the child shall be the
guiding principle of those responsible for his education and guidance; that
responsibility lies in the first place with his parents.
The child shall
have full opportunity for play and recreation, which should be directed to the
same purposes as education; society and the public authorities shall endeavour
to promote the enjoyment of this right.”
The Protocol to the African
Charter on Human and Peoples’s Rights on the Rights of Women was adopted on 11th July 2003, during the second
summit of the African Union in
Article 12 of the protocol provides :
“Right to Education and Training
1. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures
to:
a) eliminate all forms of discrimination against women
and guarantee equal opportunity and access in the sphere of education and
training;
b) eliminate all stereotypes in textbooks, syllabuses
and the media, that perpetuate such discrimination;
c) protect women, especially the girl-child from all
forms of abuse, including sexual harassment in schools and other educational
institutions and
provide for sanctions against the perpetrators of such
practices;
d) provide access to counselling and rehabilitation
services to women who suffer abuses and sexual harassment;
e) integrate gender sensitisation and human rights
education at all levels of education curricula including teacher training.
2. States Parties shall take specific positive action
to:
a) promote literacy among women;
b) promote education and training for women at all
levels and in all disciplines, particularly in the fields of science and
technology;
c) promote the enrolment and retention of girls in
schools and other training institutions and the organisation of programmes for
women who leave
school prematurely.”
Table 12 pf the Report on Human Development
for 2007/2008 published by
the UNDP lists literacy and school attendance levels for all countries. The
table shows that in many countries little progress has been made over the
years. That is why interventions in the education sector were included in the
framework of the Millennium Goals.
Here is a summary
of the millennium goals relating to education approved in the Sustainable
Development Declaration during the seventeenth plenary session of the World
Conference on Sustainable Development signed in
Look
at slides :
Goal 2 : Primary education for all.
Goal 3 : Promote
gender equality and empower women.
1. Opinion.
On two pages write your reasoned opinion :
On the first page, why «elementary basic education» is rightly or
wrongly considered one of the essential elements to a good quality of life.
On the second page, why, 60 years
after the 1948 (resolution 217 A (III)) we are in the situation presented by the UNDP
in its Human
Development report 2007/2008.
◄ First block :
Poverty and quality of life.
◄ Index : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip.Int.Dev)
