Teaching about Human Rights in a Social Work Undergraduate Curriculum: The Taiwan Experience.

This study was designed to investigate the transformation in attitude of social work under-graduate students following the completion of a human rights module near the end of their academic programme in Taiwan. Twenty-five students who enrolled in the 'Human Rights, Gender and Social Work' module at a university in central Taiwan were evaluated by means of self-reported change in attitude towards human rights before and after participation in this semester-long module. Their attitude towards human rights was measured using a twenty-four-item, four-point Likert scale that was developed and previously validated by Xie and Dan (2003). Quantitative analysis was applied. Following an educational intervention of one semester's duration, the participants self-reported a statistically significant change in their attitude towards human rights. The linkage of human rights with social work practice can be facilitated by adopting a specific teaching methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]