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Human Rights in Higher Education

Institutional, Classroom, and Community Approaches to Teaching Social Justice

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Editors:
  1. Lindsey N. Kingston

    1. Department of History, Politics, and International Relations, Webster University, St. Louis, USA

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  • Highlights the possibilities, challenges, and key questions central to building a human rights campus
  • Proposes a shift from the traditional educational paradigm and explores the value of taking the classroom into the community to engage in social justice work
  • Outlines best practices in education to teach students about fundamental rights to food, water, education, family, health, freedom of movement, and cultural participation

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction—Human Rights in Higher Education: Institutional, Classroom, and Community Approaches to Teaching Social Justice

    • Lindsey N. Kingston
    Pages 1-21

  3. Institutional Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. The Ideal of a Human Rights Campus

      • Lindsey N. Kingston
      Pages 25-40

    3. Social Justice Programs and Just Administrative Practices

      • Kate Parsons
      Pages 41-57

    4. Faculty–Student Collaborative Human Rights Research

      • Danielle MacCartney
      Pages 59-77

    5. Supporting Inclusive Campus Communities: A Student Development Perspective

      • Bethany R. Keller
      Pages 79-93

  5. Community Engagement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Education as Resistance: Teaching Critical Criminology to (Aspiring) Cops

      • Julie Setele
      Pages 169-184

    3. Human Rights Conferences and Facilitating Community Dialogue

      • Lindsey N. Kingston, Monica Henson, Evelyn Whitehead
      Pages 185-199

    4. Community-Based Social Justice Work: The WILLOW Project

      • Anne Geraghty-Rathert
      Pages 201-218

    5. The Bijlmer Project: Moving the Classroom into our Community to Combat Human Trafficking

      • Sheetal Shah
      Pages 219-233

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 235-247
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About this book

This book focuses on human rights education (HRE) in higher education, with an emphasis on supporting undergraduate education for social justice and global citizenship at the institutional, classroom, and community levels. Drawing from the work of human rights scholars and advocates at Webster University, Kingston begins a critical discussion about the potential of HRE on college campuses and beyond. Chapter contributors address the institutional issues inherent to building a “human rights campus,” promoting just governance models, facilitating student research, and fostering inclusive campus communities. They further explore opportunities within the classroom by highlighting dynamic courses on global sustainable development and post-genocide reconciliation, as well as considering how to create trauma sensitive learning spaces and utilize photography as a human rights teaching tool. Finally, scholar-advocates detail how HRE can be expanded to include the broader community—including teaching critical criminology to aspiring police officers, facilitating community dialogue through academic conferences, and engaging in social justice work related to access to justice, domestic violence, and human trafficking.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Politics, and International Relations, Webster University, St. Louis, USA

    Lindsey N. Kingston

About the editor

Lindsey N. Kingston is Associate Professor of International Human Rights at Webster University, USA. She directs Webster University's Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies and is a topical expert on the issues of statelessness and forced displacement.

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