
Human Rights Education
A Conceptual Analysis
Andre Keet(Author)
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 11. February 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-3-8383-4538-3 (ISBN)
Description
Over the past 15 years, Human Rights Education (HRE) evolved into a burgeoning pedagogical formation that sources its currency and legitimacy from the perceived international consensus on human rights universals. However, the proliferation of HRE is paradoxically not matched by a sustained and meaningful theoretical analysis of HRE though it has far-reaching implications for formal and informal educational systems worldwide. As a result HRE has grown into a declarationist, conservative, uncritical and compliance-driven pedagogy that is in the main informed by a political literacy approach. This book, therefore, provides a systematic conceptual analysis of HRE and proposes alternative conceptual principles for a new form of HRE to emerge. The analysis and proposals should assist HRE practitioners, professionals and scholars to contribute to these developments. This new form will stand in a critical and non-deterministic relationship with human rights universals that will infinitely enhance its transformative and humanising potential.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
429 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8383-4538-3 (9783838345383)
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Andre Keet is based at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa as the director of the Transdisciplinary Programme. He holds a PhD in Human Rights Education from the University of Pretoria where he is an associate professor. Andre is also a part-time Commissioner with the Commission for Gender Equality.