Educating for human rights and global citizenship / edited by Ali A. Abdi and Lynette Shultz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abdi, Ali A., 1955-

Shultz, Lynette.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International education.

Human rights--Study and teaching.

Human rights.

World citizenship--Study and teaching.

World citizenship.

Physical Description:

xii, 252 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essays that highlight the role of education in bringing about inclusive citizenship and human rights norms.

Contents:

Intro

Educating for Human Rights andGlobal Citizenship

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Educating for Human Rightsand Global Citizenship:An Introduction

2. A Call and Response: Human Rights as a Tool of Dignity and Transformation

3. Human Rights:Four Generations of Practice and Development

4. Are We All Global Citizens orAre Only Some of Us Global Citizens? The Relevance of This Question to Education

5. Caught Between Imaginaries:Global Citizenship Education and the Persistence of the Nation

6. De-subjecting Subject Populations:Historico-actual Problems and Educational Possibilities

7. The Short History of Women,Human Rights, and Global Citizenship

8. Re/presentation of Race and Racism in the Multicultural Discourse of Canada

9.Popular Education and Human Rights:Prospects for Antihegemonic Adivasi (Original Dweller)Movements and Counterhegemonic Struggle in India

10. Human Rights Education and Contemporary Child Slavery: Creating Child-Friendly Villages When States,Communities, and Families Fail to Protect

11.Toward Minority Group Rights and Inclusive Citizenship for Immigrants:The Role of a Voluntary Organization in Vancouver, Canada

12. Traditional Peoples and Citizenship in the New Imperial Order

13. Human Rights Imperialism:Third Way Education as the New Cultural Imperialism

14. Citizenship and its Exclusions:The Impact of Legal Definitions on Metis People(s) of Canada

15. An Introduction to Librarianship for Human Rights

16. Reconstructing the Legend Educating for Global Citizenship

APPENDIX A: Threads of My Life

Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791478608

0791478602

9781435643611

1435643615

OCLC:

923406411