Full Description
This book analyses major discourses of human rights and education. It examines critically major issues confronting human rights and education, both locally and globally. The various chapters analyze the challenges that different societies are faced with, as they attempt to implement, protect and defend democracy, cultural diversity and human rights in schools.
The book helps readers to explore their own views and consider more broadly what may be in the best interests of a fair and just society, as envisioned in human rights treaties, human rights education in schools, and cultural diversity.
Contents
1 Globalisation, human rights and education.- 2 Building HRE into the world as it could be in higher and secondary education.- 3 Human Rights Education NOW! Podcast Case Study: Illuminating HRE through the Lived Experience of Scholar Practitioners.- 4 The attack of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as an attack on human rights education.- 5 Human rights and sport participation in the swimming programs in New York City.- 6 The right to education in South Africa: A critical decolonial reading in place-space-time.- 7 Education for Development and Human Rights: The contribution of educational projects in Portuguese schools.- 8 Human rights education and popular democracy: Making the challenge.- 9 Beyond Borders: Navigating Social Integration and Community Support for Refugees in Australia and Italy.- 10 The protection of economic, social and cultural rights in armed conflicts: The right to education between myths and realities.- 11 Research trends in globalisation, human rights and education.
