Language teaching and learning strategies for understanding and communication

Program of Teaching Human Rights and Languages

Bucarest (Liceul Bilingv GEORGE COSBUC, Colegiul National ELENA CUZA , Grupul Scolar Posta di telecomunicatii)

The program of teaching human rights addresses 16 year-old students in English bilingual classes. Basically, it can be described as a project to learn English, through acquiring values and human rights concepts.

The program is included among the optional subjects of this type of classes. For the moment, a pilot year is taking place and three colleges are testing the project. To support the project, a textbook was written by two Romanian authors and was made available in 1999 by a Romanian publisher.

The project was created to support English-bilingual classes by bringing them truthful material to work with.

Joint project of Ministry of Education Romania and UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
From The Ministry of Education:
Mr. Ion Florin Irescu-Iaru, inspector service for school
Inspection, Bucarest
00 211 84 85 / 094 218 792

Financial Partners
For the second part of project: British Council - Romania.

Since the project has been successful so far, a second part has just started. Initiated and funded by the British Council-Romania, this latest part of the project aims at producing another Human Rights set of materials (textbook and teachers' material) for use in bilingual and intensive English classes.