Most of the struggles for equitable schooling, including multicultural curricula and culturally responsive teaching, have largely taken place on a local or national stage, with little awareness of how international human rights standards might support these struggles. Human Rights and Schooling explores the potential of human rights frameworks to support grassroots struggles for justice and examines the impact that human rights and child rights education can make in the lives of students, including the most marginalized. The author, Audrey Osler, examines the theory, research, and practice linking human rights to education in order to broaden the concept of citizenship and social studies education. Bringing scholarship and practice together, the text uses concrete examples to illustrate the links between principles and ideals and actual efforts to realize social justice in and through education. Osler anchors her examination of human rights in the U.N Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training.Book Features: Supports teachers in their everyday struggles for social justice. Contributes to theory and practice in human rights education. Advocates for greater international solidarity and cooperation in multicultural education. Explores how the concept of child rights can strengthen education for democracy.

Product Description: This book assesses the role of human rights education (HRE) in the peacebuilding field. Today, most governments, international organisations and non-governmental organisations recognise the importance of human rights in peace- and democracy-building activities in post-conflict regions...read more

Product Description: Through the preservation of the social, political, and cultural autonomies of peoples within diverse cultural contexts, Al-Daraweesh and Snauwaert propose a relational epistemology for human rights education.

Product Description: Education is widely recognized as a fundamental human right, yet the nature of the right remains unclear. Is it an entitlement to go to school, to acquire particular forms of knowledge or develop particular skills or attributes? And why exactly is education so important that we might defend all people's right to it? This book provides a much-needed exploration of this key contemporary issue...read more

Product Description: This major new study focuses on human rights education in theory and practice. It has three main themes that are connected and developed over a range of international contexts. The first theme addresses the role of human rights teaching in education for sustainable development...read more

Essays that highlight the role of education in bringing about inclusive citizenship and human rights norms.

Product Description: This unique collection of essays has been compiled in honour of Professor Goran Melander, one of the founders of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), in Lund, Sweden. Goran Melander served as the Institute s first director and subsequently as the Chairman of the Board of Directors...read more

Product Description: This Manual provides in-depth information on sources, systems and standards for human rights relating to the work of prison officials, practical recommendations, topics for discussion, case studies and checklists. It is one component of the four part publication Human Rights and Prisons - a human rights training package for prison officials...read more

Product Description: Is it possible to measure the impact of training programs on democracy, human rights, and tolerance education? Are there available tools to help determine the strengths and weaknesses of programs, teaching materials, methods, or individual training sessions? If so, which of these tools are the most useful? Approaching the issue of evaluation from a practitioner's point of view, this guide aims to fill a gap in the current literature...read more

Product Description: How should we educate citizens in multicultural societies? This question is receiving increasing attention in countries across the world. In this volume authors from England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the United States report on recent research in this field and consider the implications for teachers, teacher education and student teachers...read more

Product Description: This volume breaks new ground by bringing together and synthesizing contributions from practitioners and researchers in language teaching and citizenship. It draws on the work of the British Council in developing education for citizenship and good governance through language teaching...read more

Product Description: This volume does not provide ready solutions to all the problems of human rights and human rights education, but its aim is to raise public awareness and contribute to the ongoing debate. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume does not provide ready solutions to all the problems of human rights and human rights education, but its aim is to raise public awareness and contribute to the ongoing debate. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This monograph endeavours to provide a general overview of the content and development of the right to education at the international and regional levels, as well as an examination of various associated topical issues. The book traces the historical development of the right to education at the national level, considers the recognition of the right to education at the international and regional levels and the emerging and controversial topics of minority and indigenous education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)