Overview
- Provides theoretical work that cultivates a critical view of human rights in education and beyond
- Creates openings for rethinking human rights education both theoretically and in praxis
- Highlights the challenges and opportunities for dealing with human rights issues worldwide from a pedagogical perspective
Part of the book series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education (COPT, volume 13)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Universality of human rights
- HRE
- Human Rights Education
- Renewal of HRE
- Critical pedagogies
- Critical social theories
- Human rights critiques
- Decoloniality
- Contemporary critical theory
- Critical Human Rights Education
- Social justice Education
- Citizenship Education
- Affect/Emotion
About this book
This book engages with human rights and human rights education (HRE) in ways that offer opportunities for criticality and renewal. It takes up various ideas, from critical and decolonial theories to philosophers and intellectuals, to theorize the renewal of HRE as Critical Human Rights Education.
The point of departure is that the acceptable “truths” of human rights are seldom critically examined, and productive interpretations for understanding and acting in a world that is soaked in the violations these rights try to address, cannot emerge.
The book cultivates a critical view of human rights in education and beyond, and revisits receivable categories of human rights to advance social-justice-oriented educational praxes. It focuses on the ways that issues of human rights, philosophy, and education come together, and how a critical project of their entanglements creates openings for rethinking human rights education (HRE) both theoretically and in praxis.
Given the persistence of issues of human rights worldwide, this book will be useful to researchers and educators across disciplines and in numerous parts of the world.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Human Rights Education
Book Subtitle: Advancing Social-Justice-Oriented Educational Praxes
Authors: Michalinos Zembylas, André Keet
Series Title: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27198-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27197-8Published: 11 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27200-5Published: 11 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27198-5Published: 30 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2214-9759
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9767
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 154
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Philosophy of Education