Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education
Subtitle: Entanglements and Regenerations
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781350045620
Subjects: Human rights, study and teaching; Democracy; Citizenship
Description: "Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education presents new scholarly research that views human rights, democracy, and citizenship education as a critical project. Written by an international line-up of contributors including academics from Canada, Cyprus, Ireland, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the USA, this book provides a cross-section of theoretical work as well as case studies on the challenges and possibilities of bringing together notions of human rights, democracy, and citizenship in education. The contributors cultivate a critical view of human rights, democracy, and citizenship and revisit these categories to advance socially just educational praxis and highlight ground-breaking case studies that redefine the purposes and approaches in education for a better alignment with the justice-oriented objectives of human rights, democracy, and citizenship education. A critical response, reflecting on the issues raised throughout the book, provides a conclusion. This is essential reading for those researching these pedagogical forms and will be valuable to practitioners and activists in fields as diverse as education, l1aw, sociology, health sciences and social work, and international development."--Bloomsbury Publishing.