Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship
Published on 8. January 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-7914-7374-0 (ISBN)
Description
Essays that highlight the role of education in bringing about inclusive citizenship and human rights norms.
Nearly sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in spite of progress on some fronts, we are in many cases as far away as ever from achieving an inclusive citizenship and human rights for all. While human rights violations continue to affect millions across the world, there are also ongoing contestations regarding citizenship. In response to these and related issues, the contributors to this book critique both historical and current practices and suggest several pragmatic options, highlighting the role of education in attaining these noble yet unachieved objectives. This book represents a welcome addition to the human rights and global citizenship literature and provides ideas for new platforms that are human rights friendly and expansively attuned toward global citizenship.
Nearly sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in spite of progress on some fronts, we are in many cases as far away as ever from achieving an inclusive citizenship and human rights for all. While human rights violations continue to affect millions across the world, there are also ongoing contestations regarding citizenship. In response to these and related issues, the contributors to this book critique both historical and current practices and suggest several pragmatic options, highlighting the role of education in attaining these noble yet unachieved objectives. This book represents a welcome addition to the human rights and global citizenship literature and provides ideas for new platforms that are human rights friendly and expansively attuned toward global citizenship.
Reviews / Votes
"...this is a well-written and accessible book that takes up issues of human rights and global citizenship from diverse perspectives and challenges schools to 'achieve more inclusive, socially responsible, and pedagogically transformative spaces' (p. 8) by including these issues as part of their public purpose. The book is a major contribution to the ever-expanding categories and definitions of human rights." - Alberta Journal of Educational Research"This well-written and accessible book provides an excellent analysis of the current issues in education for human rights and global citizenship. The historical framework is valuable, as is the direct questioning of 'global citizenship for whom?'" - Allan Pitman, University of Western Ontario
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
437 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-7374-0 (9780791473740)
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Ali A. Abdi | Lynette Shultz
Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship
E-Book
01/2009
1st Edition
State University of New York Press
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Persons
At the University of Alberta, Ali A. Abdi is Professor of Education and International Development and Lynette Shultz is Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies. Abdi is the author of Culture, Education, and Development in South Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives and the coeditor (with Korbla P. Puplampu, and George J. Sefa Dei) of African Education and Globalization: Critical Perspectives.
Content
Acknowledgments
1. Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship: An Introduction
Ali A. Abdi and Lynette Shultz
2. A Call and Response: Human Rights as a Tool of Dignity and Transformation
Hilaria Supa Huaman, Shulamith Koenig, and Lynette Shultz
3. Human Rights: Four Generations of Practice and Development
Derek G. Evans
4. Are We All Global Citizens or Are Only Some of Us Global Citizens?: The Relevance of This Question to Education
Nigel Dower
5. Caught Between Imaginaries: Global Citizenship Education and the Persistence of the Nation
George Richardson
6. De-subjecting Subject Populations: Historico-actual Problems and Educational Possibilities
Ali A. Abdi
7. The Short History of Women, Human Rights, and Global Citizenship
Ratna Ghosh
8. Re/presentation of Race and Racism in the Multicultural Discourse of Canada
Carl E. James
9. Popular Education and Human Rights: Prospects for Antihegemonic Adivasi (Original Dweller) Movements and Counterhegemonic Struggle in India
Dip Kapoor
10. Human Rights Education and Contemporary Child Slavery: Creating Child-Friendly Villages When States, Communities, and Families Fail to Protect
Lynette Shultz
11. Toward Minority Group Rights and Inclusive Citizenship for Immigrants: The Role of a Voluntary Organization in Vancouver, Canada
Shibao Guo
12. Traditional Peoples and Citizenship in the New Imperial Order
Makere Stewart-Harawira
13. Human Rights Imperialism: Third Way Education as the New Cultural Imperialism
Jerrold L. Kachur
14. Citizenship and its Exclusions: The Impact of Legal Definitions on Metis People(s) of Canada
Cora Weber-Pillwax
15. An Introduction to Librarianship for Human Rights
Toni Samek
16. Reconstructing the Legend: Educating for Global Citizenship
Graham Pike
Appendix A: Threads of My Life (Spanish Original)
Hilaria Supa Huaman
List of Contributors
Index
1. Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship: An Introduction
Ali A. Abdi and Lynette Shultz
2. A Call and Response: Human Rights as a Tool of Dignity and Transformation
Hilaria Supa Huaman, Shulamith Koenig, and Lynette Shultz
3. Human Rights: Four Generations of Practice and Development
Derek G. Evans
4. Are We All Global Citizens or Are Only Some of Us Global Citizens?: The Relevance of This Question to Education
Nigel Dower
5. Caught Between Imaginaries: Global Citizenship Education and the Persistence of the Nation
George Richardson
6. De-subjecting Subject Populations: Historico-actual Problems and Educational Possibilities
Ali A. Abdi
7. The Short History of Women, Human Rights, and Global Citizenship
Ratna Ghosh
8. Re/presentation of Race and Racism in the Multicultural Discourse of Canada
Carl E. James
9. Popular Education and Human Rights: Prospects for Antihegemonic Adivasi (Original Dweller) Movements and Counterhegemonic Struggle in India
Dip Kapoor
10. Human Rights Education and Contemporary Child Slavery: Creating Child-Friendly Villages When States, Communities, and Families Fail to Protect
Lynette Shultz
11. Toward Minority Group Rights and Inclusive Citizenship for Immigrants: The Role of a Voluntary Organization in Vancouver, Canada
Shibao Guo
12. Traditional Peoples and Citizenship in the New Imperial Order
Makere Stewart-Harawira
13. Human Rights Imperialism: Third Way Education as the New Cultural Imperialism
Jerrold L. Kachur
14. Citizenship and its Exclusions: The Impact of Legal Definitions on Metis People(s) of Canada
Cora Weber-Pillwax
15. An Introduction to Librarianship for Human Rights
Toni Samek
16. Reconstructing the Legend: Educating for Global Citizenship
Graham Pike
Appendix A: Threads of My Life (Spanish Original)
Hilaria Supa Huaman
List of Contributors
Index