Human Rights Education: Theory, Research, Praxis

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2017

Human Rights Education

Theory, Research, Praxis

Edited by: Monisha Bajaj
Afterword by: Nancy Flowers

In the series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293890

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About this book

Bringing together the voices of those deeply engaged in the politics and possibilities of human rights education, Monisha Bajaj's Human Rights Education shapes our understanding of its practices and processes and demonstrates how it has come to be a meaningful field of scholarship, policy, curricular reform, and pedagogy.

Author / Editor information

Monisha Bajaj is Associate Professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco. She is coeditor of Peace Education: International Perspectives and author of Schooling for Social Change: The Rise and Impact of Human Rights Education in India.

Reviews

"Human Rights Education lives up to its promise. Monisha Bajaj has put together an impressive set of studies reviewing the whole rapidly expanding arena, from theory and research to fascinating accounts of practice."—John W. Meyer, Stanford University

"By assembling a collection of essays by leaders in the field of human rights education and drawing from a wide and distinguished set of disciplinary homes, Monisha Bajaj has done a great service to scholars, teachers, and students interested in pursuing this fast-emerging and critically important topic."—Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Monisha Bajaj Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations of Human Rights Education
1. Symbol and Substance: Human Rights Education as an Emergent Global Institution Susan Garnett Russell and David F. Suárez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Emotions, Critical Pedagogy, and Human Rights Education Michalinos Zembylas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3. Evolution of Human Rights Education Models Felisa L. Tibbitts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
4. Th e Right to Human Rights Education: Conceptual Perspectives Peter G. Kirchschlaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
PART II. Global Research in Human Rights Education
5. Challenges and Complexity in Human Rights Education: Teachers’ Understandings of Democratic Participation and Gender Equity in Post- Conflict Kurdistan, Iraq Audrey Osler and Chalank Yahya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
6. Human Rights Education in Postcolonial India Monisha Bajaj and Rachel Wahl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
7. Politics, Power, and Protest: Rights- Based Education Policy and the Limits of Human Rights Education Sam Mejias Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
8. Contentious Human Rights Education: Th e Case of Professional Development Programs on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity– Based Refuge Protection Oren Pizmony-Levy and Megan Jensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
PART III. Transformative Human Rights Education Praxis
9. Historicizing Critical Educational Praxis: A Human Rights Framework for Justice- Oriented Teaching Melissa L. Gibson and Carl A. Grant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
10. Expanding the Aspirational Map: Interactive Learning and Human Rights in Tostan’s Community Empowerment Program Beniamino Cislaghi, Diane Gillespie and Gerry Mackie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
11. Human Rights Education’s Role in Peacebuilding: Lessons from the Field Tracey Holland and J. Paul Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
12. Leveraging Diversity to Become a Global Citizen: Lessons for Human Rights Education Carol Anne Spreen and Chrissie Monaghan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Afterword Nancy Flowers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Appendix A. Sample Discussion Questions for Use with Th is Book Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Appendix B. Further Reading in Human Rights Education Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 376
Illustrations
- Other: 1 illus.
Keywords: Political Science; Education; Human Rights; Law

eBook

Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9780812293890