Pulling Education into Alignment with Human Rights

A global campaign thru April 22nd to have as many people as possible sign the Declaration of Child Rights- Centric Education

The Rights-Centric Education (RCE) Network

Over the past several decades pioneers of possibilities working outside public school systems have well defined the kinds of learning environments young people need if they are to thrive, and they have established a range of applications that have successfully turned theory into practice. RCE Making Change Stick aims to shift the emphasis from defining what is known about human flourishing more to getting it embedded in mainstream education for the benefit of all. It requires widespread conscious collaboration with attention to how this collaboration can augment the work already being done by change agents throughout the world without adding to the demands on their resources. How to work smarter, not harder, is the challenge. By coming together in collective action now, we stand a chance of cultivating a global population that has the capacity to address the polycrisis before it becomes insurmountable.

The work of the RCE Network is dedicated to the Children. Their dedication reads:

To the Children of Today;
who are awaiting the fulfillment of the promise made 35 years ago,
to be treated with dignity and respect,
as human beings, not just human becomings;
as the subjects of their own rights,
with the authority to assert and defend their own rights,
not just receive them as objects of charity, chattel, or innocent cherubs to be protected;

And to the Children of Yesterday;
now walking around inside adult bodies,
who do not know how to keep that promise…
because they don’t know what it feels like
to be a child treated with the dignity and respect
that is every human beings’ birth right.

RCE Making Change Stick Initiative

Register here for this 2 in 1 RCE Making Change Stick action organized by Uniting for Children and Youth, one of the many founders of Rights-Centric Education Network – RCEN, and please sign the Declaration of Child Rights-Centric Education to help demonstrate to the world that people who believe in pulling education into alignment with human rights are substantial in numbers and a force to be taken seriously.

Action 1: A global campaign until April 22nd to have as many people as possible sign the Declaration of Child Rights-Centric Educationand participate in Action 2.

Action 2: Five sessions will take place from April 22nd to May 27th, details below. Again, participate as you can. The first two sessions will consider how to create change from inside conventional school systems. The next two will focus more on actions to be taken outside public education, and the final session will grow the vision of a thriving global learning ecosystem cultivating the capacity of people to address pressing world problems. The sessions are not provided as answers to a very complex set of problems, but rather as an introduction to some of what needs to be taken into account and how to turn into action some of the wisdom that is shared.

The Five Sessions-
More Effectively Moving from Theory to Practice

April 22nd to May 27th
Session 1, April 22nd, 8pm UTC: Making Change Stick – Introduction and discussion by author James Mannion.
Session 2, April 29th, 8pm UTC: Making Change Stick – Turning talk into action.
Session 3, May 13th, 8pm UTC: The Agentic Schools Manifesto – Introduction and discussion by author Don Berg.
Session 4, May 20th, 8pm UTC: The Agentic Schools Manifesto – Turning talk into action.
Session 5, May 27th, 8pm UTC: World Systems Solutions – Moving towards a global learning ecosystem.