Globalisation, Human Rights and Education

Joseph Zajda is a Professor at the Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne Campus). He specializes in globalization and education policy reforms, social justice, history education and values education. He has written and edited 45 books and over 150 book chapters and articles on globalization and education policy, higher education and curriculum reforms. He is also the Editor of the 24-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research (Springer, 2009 & 2021). Recent publications include: Zajda, J (Ed). (2020a). Globalisation, ideology and neo-liberal higher education reform. Dordrecht: Springer. Zajda, J. (Ed). (2020b). Human rights education globally. Dordrecht: Springer. Zajda, J. (Ed). (2020c). Globalisation, Ideology and Education Reforms: Emerging paradigms. Dordrecht: Springer; Zajda, J. (2018). He is an Elected Fellow of the Australian College of Educators (FACE).Yvonne Vissing, PhD, is a Professor of Healthcare Studies, focusing on health policy and public health, and the Founding Director of the Center for Childhood & Youth Studies at Salem State University.  She is the US policy chair for the Hope for Children Convention on the Child Policy Center in Cyprus, on the Steering Committee for Human Rights Educators USA, and is on the AAAS Human Rights Council.  Vissing is author of 17 books, including Children’s Human Rights in the USA: Challenge & Opportunities (Springer 2023), Changing the Paradigm of Homelessness (Routledge 2020), and The Rights of Unaccompanied Minors (Springer 2021).  A clinical sociologist, National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on child abuse and Whiting Foundation fellow studying child rights, she was also a Dialogue and Democracy fellow at UCONN’s Dodd Center for Human Rights.  She is a graduate of Equitas International Human Rights Training Program in Montreal. She is also the CEO of Training for Excellence.

• 1 Globalisation, human rights and education.- 2 Building HRE into the world as it could be in higher and secondary education.- 3 Human Rights Education NOW! Podcast Case Study: Illuminating HRE through the Lived Experience of Scholar Practitioners.- 4 The attack of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as an attack on human rights education.- 5 Human rights and sport participation in the swimming programs in New York City.- 6 The right to education in South Africa: A critical decolonial reading in place-space-time.- 7 Education for Development and Human Rights: The contribution of educational projects in Portuguese schools.- 8 Human rights education and popular democracy: Making the challenge.- 9 Beyond Borders: Navigating Social Integration and Community Support for Refugees in Australia and Italy.- 10 The protection of economic, social and cultural rights in armed conflicts: The right to education between myths and realities.- 11 Research trends in globalisation, human rights and education.