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Eleven year-old Aliyah (L) studies at a private English lesson in Kabul. Aliyah's family returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan several months before. Photo: UNHCR/N. Behring
Teachers' Corner
Education is one of the four pillars of UNHCR's Public Awareness work. Teacher's Corner offers ideas for lesson plans and integrating refugee issues into the classroom as well as a wide range of educational resources.
These teaching tools should help students to analyse, clarify, judge and acquire values in the following areas:
Empathy
Students should be able to imagine sensitively the viewpoints and feelings of other people, particularly those belonging to groups, cultures and nations other than their own, including refugees. These are people who have been rejected in their own countries, and need to feel welcomed, rather than rejected and isolated in their country of refuge.
Self-respect
Students should have a sense of their own worth and pride in their own particular social, cultural and family background.
Respect for others
Students should have a sense of worth of others, particularly of those with social, cultural and family backgrounds different to their own. Students should be encouraged to reject sexual, racial and ethnic stereotypes, including xenophobic sentiments directed against refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants generally.
Global concern
Students should recognise the essential interdependence of peoples of our planet.
Environmental concern
Students should have a sense of respect for the natural environment and our overall place in the web of life. They should also have a sense of responsibility for both the local and global environment. The majority of refugees today are found in refugee camps in the marginal regions of poor, developing countries.
Open-mindedness
Students should be willing to approach different sources of information, people and events, with a critical but open mind.
Vision
Students should be open to, and value, the various dreams and visions of what a better world might look like both in their own community, in other communities and in the world as a whole.
Social responsibility
Students should value genuinely democratic principles and processes and be ready to work for a more just, secure and peaceful world at local, national and international levels. They should develop a commitment not only to defending their rights, but to accepting and fulfilling their responsibilities as well.
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