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Direct Aim
To live a purposeful and peaceful life to its full potential.
Indirect Aim1. To acknowledge that the provision, protection and participation rights are for the right to life.
2. To value that the protection of life requires the belief in an innate desire for justice and love. 3. To acquire knowledge of our purpose in life for true peace. |
Unity Integration Conservation Cosmic Task
Life Sub-Unit Topics
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Human beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue
happiness and live in peace and freedom.
The XIVth Dalai Lama
happiness and live in peace and freedom.
The XIVth Dalai Lama
Convention Articles that Relate to this Right
Article 1
For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.
Article 6
1. States Parties recognize that every child has the inherent right to life.
2. States Parties shall ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child.
For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.
Article 6
1. States Parties recognize that every child has the inherent right to life.
2. States Parties shall ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child.
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UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child by Shannon Gibson and created by Bretislav Pojar of the National Film Board of Canada, Canada.
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Unit Resources and References
- American Montessori Society (2002). Montessori Elementary I Different: What Children Study, What Children Do. Also see Montessori Terminology.
- Duffy, D Neil, and Duffy, Michael (2002). Children of the Universe: Cosmic Education in the Montessori Elementary Classroom. Hollidaysburg, PA: Parent Child Press.
- Education International - Peace Education.
- Education Revolution - The Montessori Educational Vision.
- Humanium Help the Children - Right to Life: Understanding children's right to life.
- Ireland Department of Health and Children - The Agenda for Children's Services: A Policy Handbook.
- Miller, John P. and Yoshiharu Nakagawa. (2002). Nourishing the Spiritual Embryo: The Educational Vision of Maria Montessori. Nurturing Our Wholeness: Perspectives on Spirituality in Education. Retrieved from http://www.pathsoflearning.net/articles_Montessori.php.
- Montessori, Mario M. Jr. (1976). Education for Human Development: Understanding Montessori. New York: Schocken Books, NY.
- North American Montessori Center - Montessori Teacher Training: The Purpose of Montessori Cosmic Education.
- Stern, Rebecca. (2006). The Child's Right to Participation - Reality or Rhetoric? Department of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden. Retrieved from http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:168647/FULLTEXT01.
- UNICEF - The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Survival and developmental rights: the basic rights to life, survival and development of one's full potential.
