Human Rights Education : Theory, Research, Praxis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flowers, Nancy.

Contributor:

Bajaj, Monisha.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Study and teaching.

Human rights.

Education.

Human Rights.

Law.

Political Science.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Human Rights.

Law.

Political Science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages).

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations of Human Rights Education; 1. Symbol and Substance: Human Rights Education as an Emergent Global Institution; 2. Emotions, Critical Pedagogy, and Human Rights Education; 3. Evolution of Human Rights Education Models; 4. The Right to Human Rights Education: Conceptual Perspectives; 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 6. Human Rights Education in Postcolonial India; 7. Politics, Power, and Protest: Rights-Based Education Policy and the Limits of Human Rights Education; 8. Contentious Human Rights Education: The Case of Professional Development Programs on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity-Based Refuge Protection; Part III. Transformative Human Rights Education Praxis.

9. Historicizing Critical Educational Praxis: A Human Rights Framework for Justice-Oriented Teaching10. Expanding the Aspirational Map: Interactive Learning and Human Rights in Tostan's Community Empowerment Program; 11. Human Rights Education's Role in Peacebuilding: Lessons from the Field; 12. Leveraging Diversity to Become a Global Citizen: Lessons for Human Rights Education; Afterword; Appendix A. Sample Discussion Questions for Use with This Book; Appendix B. Further Reading in Human Rights Education; List of Contributors; Index; Acknowledgments.

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Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Flowers, Nancy. Human Rights Education : Theory, Research, Praxis.

ISBN:

9780812293890

0812293894

OCLC:

982018835

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