Human Rights and Schooling
An Ethical Framework for Teaching for Social Justice
Published on 20. May 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-8077-5676-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
Audrey Osler's new book brings astonishing depth, a global scope, a critical perspective, and the commanding authority of an international scholar who had studied and participated in the struggle for human rights across many years and a variety of local contexts." - Theory & Research in Social Education"Osler's book is both aspirational and highly practical, offering an ethical framework as well as solid concrete advice for education in a heterogeneous democracy." - Human Rights Quarterly
"Uses personal narratives to illustrate nuances of human rights education. Osler's stance is that human rights work is not primarily about international politics, [but] grounded in local and personal contexts." - Citizenship Teaching & Learning
"Osler calls on us to realize the struggle for human rights and act in a way that supports them through human rights education. What may very well be needed, she claims, is a renewed and energized focus on civic learning and education for cosmopolitan citizenship, that informs and acts on the local, national and global contexts." - Teachers College Record
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
306 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-5676-8 (9780807756768)
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Person
Audrey Osler is professor of education at the University of South East Norway and at the University of Leeds, UK where she was founding director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education (CCHRE).