Teaching and Learning about Human Trafficking and Slavery:
A Curriculum Workshop for K-12 Educators
Date: February 25th, 2006,
Time: 1:30 PM – 4:50 PM
Location:
Funk ACES Library
Heritage Room
1101 S. Goodwin
Registration Deadline:
February 16th, 2006
[Registration Form]
Conventional wisdom assumes that slavery, like smallpox, has been eradicated. This, unfortunately, is not true, as the most recent publication of the U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Human Persons Report makes abundantly clear. Criminal human trafficking and the modern slave trade have merely adapted to the new international economic environment, and both are now flourishing. An estimate by the American non-profit organization Free the Slaves puts the number of persons worldwide living in slavery at 27 million, mostly in poor and developing states. Indeed, the ever-growing number of economically and socially vulnerable persons makes slaves much cheaper and more disposable than their 19th century counterparts. The new slavery takes many forms including indentured and coerced labor, early and forced marriage, slavery by descent, and sexual slavery, notably of women and children.
The UIUC Joint Areas Centers, in collaboration with the Illinois International High School Initiative and the UIUC Center for Global Studies, have planned “Teaching and Learning about Human Trafficking and Slavery: A Curriculum Workshop for K-12 Educators.” This workshop will address issues emerging from the conference, Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration.
The purpose of this workshop is to consider some of the ways educators might develop curriculum and other educational activities around the challenging and important global issue of human trafficking and slavery.
Panelists will include fellow teachers who will discuss their own teaching projects and academic experts who will discuss how human trafficking may fit into existing curricular resources available for teachers and students.
Each participating teacher will receive informational materials from various governmental and non-governmental organizations on the topic as well as a resource guide. In addition, participants will be invited to join a post-conference curriculum development working group, in collaboration with the Illinois International High School Initiative, to create lesson plans and materials to share with their fellow teachers.
If you are interested in attending this workshop please register soon as limited space is available.
Workshop Schedule | ||||
Time | Topic | Presenters | ||
1:30 – 3:00 | Session 1: Approaching the Subject of Human Trafficking & Slavery |
Professor Mohamed Mattar, | Wendy Nelson-Kauffman, 2005 | Andrew Benson Greene Jr., Coordinator, iEARN, (via video conference) |
3:00 -- 3:10 | Break | |||
3:10 -- 3:45 | Session 2: Locating Online & Library Teaching Resources | Lynne Rudasill, Center For Global Studies Librarian | ||
3:50 -- 4:20 | Breakout Session | Small Group Discussion: Developing a curriculum model | ||
4:20 – 4:50 | Reconvene & Report | Groups Report on Discussion | ||
Learning about Human Trafficking and Slavery:
A Student Forum
Date: February 25
Time: 1:30 – 4:50
Location:
University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Funk ACES Library
Spitze Room1101 S. Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
Registration Deadline:
February 16th, 2006
[Registration Form]Increasingly students are engaging in activities, inside and outside of school, that confront challenging global issues such as the environment, pollution, poverty, and terrorism. As our understanding of the global dimension of many social problems increases, students in this age of the Internet and alternative social networks will naturally seek ways to better understand and act on these issues, often independently of the school environment.
So, in conjunction with the conference on Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration, the UIUC Joint Areas Centers, the Illinois International High School Initiative and the Center for Global Studies have planned the “Learning about Human Trafficking and Slavery: A Student Forum.”
The purpose of this forum is to provide students with an opportunity to learn about the important global issue of human trafficking and slavery, as well as to consider a range of activities and projects that would address these global criminal practices.
Schedule
Topic
Presentations
1:30 – 2:00
Introductions
Ice-breaking Activity
2:00 – 2:45
Engaging the Issue
A Video Presentation on Human Trafficking and Slavery, Followed by a discussion
2:45 – 2:55
Break
2:55 – 4:20
Taking Action
Andrew Benson Greene Jr., Coodinator of iEARN,
Sierra Leone, and some of his students, will share some of their activities. Janet Tso and Meghan Hussey, students at
the Metropolitan Learning Center, a Bloomfield CT magnet school, will present on their group, Student Abolitionists Stopping Slavery 4:20 – 4:50
Conclusion
Student Collaborative Project
