Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-03-13
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791473733

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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.

Acknowledgments 1. Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship: An IntroductionAli A. Abdi and Lynette Shultz 2. A Call and Response: Human Rights as a Tool of Dignity and TransformationHilaria Supa Huaman, Shulamith Koenig, and Lynette Shultz 3. Human Rights: Four Generations of Practice and DevelopmentDerek G. Evans 4. Are We All Global Citizens or Are Only Some of Us Global Citizens?: The Relevance of This Question to EducationNigel Dower 5. Caught Between Imaginaries: Global Citizenship Education and the Persistence of the NationGeorge Richardson 6. De-subjecting Subject Populations: Historico-actual Problems and Educational PossibilitiesAli A. Abdi 7. The Short History of Women, Human Rights, and Global CitizenshipRatna Ghosh 8. Re/presentation of Race and Racism in the Multicultural Discourse of CanadaCarl E. James 9. Popular Education and Human Rights: Prospects for Antihegemonic Adivasi (Original Dweller) Movements and Counterhegemonic Struggle in IndiaDip Kapoor 10. Human Rights Education and Contemporary Child Slavery: Creating Child-Friendly Villages When States, Communities, and Families Fail to ProtectLynette Shultz 11. Toward Minority Group Rights and Inclusive Citizenship for Immigrants: The Role of a Voluntary Organization in Vancouver, CanadaShibao Guo 12. Traditional Peoples and Citizenship in the New Imperial OrderMakere Stewart-Harawira 13. Human Rights Imperialism: Third Way Education as the New Cultural ImperialismJerrold L. Kachur 14. Citizenship and its Exclusions: The Impact of Legal Definitions on Metis People(s) of CanadaCora Weber-Pillwax 15. An Introduction to Librarianship for Human RightsToni Samek 16. Reconstructing the Legend: Educating for Global CitizenshipGraham Pike Appendix A: Threads of My Life (Spanish Original)Hilaria Supa Huaman List of Contributors Index

"…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