‘No‐one respects them anyway’: secondary school students’ perceptions of human rights education in Turkey

The incorporation of compulsory courses on human rights into the secondary school curriculum in 1998 has been an important first step in developing respect for human rights and responsibilities among the younger generation in Turkey. Yet, these courses have many shortcomings in terms of materials, pedagogy and teacher attitudes. This paper explores Grades 7 and 8 (ages 13 and 14) students’ experiences in Citizenship and Human Rights Education courses on the basis of qualitative data collected through focus group discussions in Ankara and Istanbul in the 2006–2007 academic year. The responses of the students indicate that these courses have had little impact in empowering students or in facilitating them to consider their own or others’ human rights as an integral part of their lives. Rather, the students perceive the national and the global arena as characterized by mass human rights violations against which they feel powerless. The paper draws attention to the importance of a revised human rights education for students along with a global focus and appropriate methodology.     

Do public representatives in local governments know about “disability rights” in Pakistan? An awareness assessment case from Southern Punjab

Local self-government systems have been adopted in many countries to supervise local interests in development and provide a range of goods and services to localities. It is believed that awareness of certain issues itself guides duty-bearers to reshape and divert development in a certain direction. In Pakistan, elected representatives in district governments are the key duty-bearers at the local level. Hence, their awareness is indispensable to decision-making for local development and, thus, it is pertinent to assess it from a disability rights perspective. In-depth information collected from two districts has reflected that most of the public representatives are ill-informed about disability, day-to-day problems of disabled persons and their rights, which results in inadvertently disability-biased local development planning. An overriding impression gained from the results is that raising elected representatives’ awareness on disability and the rights of disabled people is imperative to embracing disability rights practice in local development.     

《长恨歌》与女性新历史小说

《长恨歌》是女性新历史小说代表作之一,其创作具有受新历史主义和女性主义影响的印迹。《长恨歌》注重以女性的细腻情感表现日常生活历史的历史真实,注重边缘化历史的呈现,注重被男性权利话语遮蔽的女性真实生存状态的揭示。《长恨歌》以女性的性别视角、女性的生命个体体验为我们重塑了一部新的女性历史,丰富了历史内蕴。     

Children changing spaces,changing schools

Children's participation remains controversial in United Kingdom schools where children and their communities rarely have opportunity to change what happens. This paper considers an original approach that developed cooperative intergenerational inquiry with a class of 10–11-year-olds in the north of England as part of complexity-informed participatory action research to consider children's participation in schools. Children and adults considered together, what schools are for, at the same time enabling children to shape spaces for participation in lesson time. The importance of recognising these spaces as dynamic intra-subjective meeting points and of intergenerational relationships for change in schools is revealed.     

民事检察抗诉制度的再完善

新修订的《民事诉讼法》实施后,并不意味着民事检察抗诉制度的定型。民事检察抗诉制度的进一步完善有利于监督和保障民事独立审判原则、处分原则和当事人平等对抗原则的正确施行,符合我国的现实国情。具体而言,可在民事执行、调解、破产程序等方面拓展民事检察抗诉监督的范围,把握抗诉监督的重点,实行主动干预和被动响应相结合的程序运作机制,遵行规范的抗诉程序。     

Hearing the child

Given that in our view the child has a fundamental right to be heard in all collective deliberative processes determining his or her future, we set out, firstly, what is required of such processes to respect this right – namely that the child's authentic voice is heard and makes a difference – and, secondly, the distance between this ideal and practice exemplified in the work of child welfare and child protection workers in Norway and the UK, chiefly in their display of an instrumental attitude to children's views.     

从解释论的视角论我国股权质押制度的新发展

股权质押是权利质押中的一种重要类型,是投资者的重要融资手段之一。从解释论的视角分析,我国物权法对于股权质押制度进行了完善和发展,其主要体现在股权质押的设立、股权质权变动规则的完善和发展以及股权最高额质押制度的创立三个方面。     

当代中国劳动者身份与劳动者权益维护的价值取向

把市场化改革过程中部分劳动者地位的下降归因于市场化不成熟,是对劳动力市场化目标的误解.当代部分劳动者地位下降的根源是社会价值取向转变后旧的传统观念的回潮.改革措施的某些疏漏和守法意识的淡薄也有推波助澜的作用.由误解而得出的结论也有违社会发展的潮流.承担维护劳动者权益责任的应该是社会而不是劳动者个人.     

和谐社会的权利观

权利是我们所要构建的和谐社会的基本要素,它既是和谐社会的活力源泉,又是和谐社会的秩序基础.从内容上看,权利意味着人们正当的自由或利益;从形式上看,权利意味着某种规则与秩序.构建和谐社会,应该树立公平正义的权利观、尊重他人权利的权利观、善待自己权利的权利观与遵守社会规则的权利观.     

公民意识：农民向现代公民转变的前提——基于村民自治角度的分析

社会现代化的核心是人的现代化,中国农村现代化的核心是中国农民的现代化。而中国农民当前各方面的主要特征仍是“村民”,而不是公民。所以,中国农村现代化,实质是实现农民从体现传统社会特性的角色转变为体现代社会特性的公民角色。其中,意识的转变是前提和关键。笔者试图从村民自治的角度分析目前农民的公民意识,并提出公民意识是农民向现代公民转变的前提。