Crossing boundaries and empowering people in crc

Lund University, Education/Sida
Advanced International Training on Child Rights, Classroom and School Management 
 
 
 
 
 

Crossing boundaries and empowering people in CRC 

Final Report

Submitted by:
Danilo Oliveros García
Luis Gabriel Rosero Montañez
Bibiana Rubio. Saavedra

Mentor:
Bereket Yebio
           

May 2009

FOREWORD 
The SwedishInternational Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) in co-operation with Lund University has developed a Programme covering Child Rights, Classroom and School Management. The guiding principle in the course and the whole training program is the right to education of all children. The programme also tries to develop a child rights based approach in education. It is designed to give opportunities tocompare and share experience with participants from other countries while taking into consideration the Convention of the Rights of the Child, Education for All and other internationally agreed declarations. A child rights based approach has the potential of contributing to the broader efforts of improving educational quality and efficiency, which is the goal of most developing countries. 
Thetraining programme consists of three phases. The first phase took place during 3 weeks in Sweden in September-October 2008. The main content of the first phase consisted of studies in the subject area, combined with visits to relevant Swedish institutions, including different schools. The training was aimed at stimulating the transformation of conventional top down approaches to teaching andlearning to those that are participatory, rights based, learner friendly and gender sensitive. One of the objectives under this aim of the training was for the participants to develop skills, understanding and attitudes in favour of child rights based education at classroom and school level. By the end of this phase participants outlined a project work to be developed in their countries upon theirreturn. As the members of the Colombia team, we decided to focus on Crossing boundaries and empowering people in CRC.
The second phase consisted of a follow up seminar to present the progress in the development of the project work during 2 weeks in Jordan in March of 2009.  
The third and last phase was a visit by our Mentor from Lund University in May 2009, when we together visited some key people ingovernment and non-government organizations, reported the outcomes of our pilot project and appealed for support for the continuation of the activities initiated by the pilot project. 
Our thanks are due to Intenalco Higher Education, Police, Children and Adolescents Metropolitana de Santiago de Cali, Minister of Culture and Tourism of Santiago de Cali, Red Cali Community Library, Library TheCountryside Community 2, the Colombian Family Welfare Institute, Colegio Maria Auxiliadora Cali, Colegio San Carlos Borromeo, Jardín Infantil Tía Nora y Liceo los Alpes, Instituto Rosa Zarate de Peña, Centro de Estimulación y Desarrollo TQ (Tecnoquímicas), Secretaria de Educación del Departamento del Valle del Cauca, for all arrangements that made it possible for us to undergo the training in Childrights, Classroom and School Management.
We acknowledge the help rendered by Luz Marina Muñoz, Psychologist Family Welfare, Ministry of Health, Environmental Health Unit, Sister Maria Mercedes Cruz, Colegio Maria Auxiliadora coordinator, to Reverend Rico Alberto Patiño, parish sector Normandy Heights, team work from Jardín Infantil Tïa Nora and Tecnoquímicas for the implementation of this PilotProject. We also acknowledge the support rendered to us by Delly Luz Quintero, community leaders and educate families of high Menga, Nancy Cortes, community leaders and educate families of high Menga, Marlene Gomez, community leaders and educate families of Bataclan, Marco Tulio Marulanda, President the Community Action Board of Bataclan, Adriana Ruiz, cultural managers, the Countryside Library,...