Human Rights Education : : Theory, Research, Praxis /

Human Rights Education : : Theory, Research, Praxis / / Monisha Bajaj.

Over the past seven decades, human rights education has blossomed into a global movement. A field of scholarship that utilizes teaching and learning processes, human rights education addresses basic rights and broadens the respect for the dignity and freedom of all peoples. Since the founding of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2016-2019
HerausgeberIn:
Bajaj, Monisha,
TeilnehmendeR:
Flowers, Nancy
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 1 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 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. Th e Right to Human Rights Education: Conceptual Perspectives
  • 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: Th e Case of Professional Development Programs on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity– Based Refuge Protection
  • 9. Historicizing Critical Educational Praxis: A Human Rights Framework for Justice- Oriented Teaching
  • 10. 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 Th is Book
  • Appendix B. Further Reading in Human Rights Education
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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