‘Classrooms in action’ in Bilbao reflects on children’s rights
5 October, 2022
Within the framework of the Bilbao City Council 2022 project, we have produced and developed a guide with exercises and activities for schools, as well as an online game ‘Breakout’. Aimed at students on the situation of child protection rights, the guide focuses on the case of Sierra Leone. The objective of this bilingual (in Basque and Spanish) and illustrated educational resource is to generate a critical analysis of the situation of children’s rights in the classroom, with attention to the situation of women and the impact of the environment on these rights.
classrooms in action is a formal education project of the Salesian Missions. In the Deusto Salesian College It also incorporates work with two free time solidarity groups: Oldarra and Nuestro Club. The purpose of the program is to promote the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes and values of Global Citizenship among the students of Infant, Primary, Secondary, Baccalaureate and FP education, with the development of a critical conscience.
The guide published under the project with the city council of bilbao includes attachments with cards aimed at students from 12 years. And so promote your solidarity commitment through educational innovation strategies such as Learning and Service (ApS). The activities have been offered to the faculty of the Salesianos Deusto school specifically, but also to the rest of the Salesian community and the environment of the center through emails, dissemination on social networks and in this publication.
The work illustrated by Muxote Potolo Bat has different learning sections. Among them are the children’s rights collected in the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the protection of rights of childhood in Sierra Leone; classroom activities on the critical analysis of the violation of the protection rights of children.
The guide contains activities based on the screening of the documentary ‘Libertad’
Also, it contains audiovisual resources and cooperative exercises that collect the situation of women and the consequences of climate change on these rights. Finally, it includes exercises based on the projection of the documentary Freedom and the Breakout Edu-digital (escape room) on children’s rights.
Activities are included in the guide and are developed, through active methodologies such as cooperative learning, thinking strategies and game-based learning. It is intended that the recipients, in addition to learning content, train skills such as creativity, critical reflection, responsibility and tolerance. In addition, the proposed activities facilitate research and the solidarity commitment of the participating minors.
Ultimately, it is proposed acquisition of knowledge and tools to approach reality and be able to understand it. Also critically analyze it and get involved in actions that promote a global citizenship committed to respecting Human Rights.
The faculty of the Salesianos Deusto school will work on the activities of the project, enriching them with the guide and revealing prior knowledge and awareness. There will also be views of the workshops for students under the project. Next, we leave you the activity guide links so you can download and use them: