October 19th 2012.

      Professor Audrey Osler, Member of the British Academy of Social Sciences, visiting scholar at Institute of Education Hong Kong and University of Bruscklud, Norway, presented her lecture “Children’s Human Rights and Citizenship Education: Re-thinking Narratives in Schooling.” The lecture was hosted by Dr. LIU Min, and attendance by IICE students.
      In her lecture, Prof. Audrey Osler reevaluated the potential children rights and student representation has in in schools and communities. In the current globalization movement, limitation factors such as immigration, border-control and civic rights have created many children without citizenship of their permanent residence. In addition, due to many unfavorable factors (i.e. poverty, minority status, etc.), many children lost their right to self-advocate. But democratic civic education is a national model for constitutional rights and responsibilities and also a measure for homogenization. Prof. Osler experimented with human rights as a foundation not only for guiding activities in schools and communities, but also a basis upon justice, equality, and unity for civic education. She believes that human rights for children is not only a pressing issue, but also critical to a healthy development of multi-cultural society. Visualizing this concept is an approach for us to adapt to globalization through the revitalization of civic education.
      At the end of the lecture, a Q&A session was held for the audience to clarify concepts and questions regarding to civic education.