With a highly accessible and lucid text this book reviews the political shift toward neo-liberal ideology and explores its tremendous impact on education. It maps out in careful detail the theoretical foundations of democratic citizenship by asking the question: What does it mean to learn and live i
Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship
β Scribed by Ali A. Abdi, Lynette Shultz
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 266
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Essays that highlight the role of education in bringing about inclusive citizenship and human rights norms.
β¦ Table of Contents
Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 12
1. Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship: An Introduction......Page 14
2. A Call and Response: Human Rights as a Tool of Dignity and Transformation......Page 24
3. Human Rights: Four Generations of Practice and Development......Page 38
4. Are We All Global Citizens or Are Only Some of Us Global Citizens? The Relevance of This Question to Education......Page 52
5. Caught Between Imaginaries: Global Citizenship Education and the Persistence of the Nation......Page 68
6. De-subjecting Subject Populations: Historico-actual Problems and Educational Possibilities......Page 78
7. The Short History of Women, Human Rights, and Global Citizenship......Page 94
8. Re/presentation of Race and Racism in the Multicultural Discourse of Canada......Page 110
9.Popular Education and Human Rights: Prospects for Antihegemonic Adivasi (Original Dweller) Movements and Counterhegemonic Struggle in India......Page 126
10. Human Rights Education and Contemporary Child Slavery: Creating Child-Friendly Villages When States, Communities, and Families Fail to Protect......Page 142
11.Toward Minority Group Rights and Inclusive Citizenship for Immigrants: The Role of a Voluntary Organization in Vancouver, Canada......Page 156
12. Traditional Peoples and Citizenship in the New Imperial Order......Page 172
13. Human Rights Imperialism: Third Way Education as the New Cultural Imperialism......Page 190
14. Citizenship and its Exclusions: The Impact of Legal Definitions on Metis People(s) of Canada......Page 206
15. An Introduction to Librarianship for Human Rights......Page 218
16. Reconstructing the Legend Educating for Global Citizenship......Page 236
APPENDIX A: Threads of My Life......Page 252
Contributors......Page 256
C......Page 262
I......Page 263
R......Page 264
Z......Page 265
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
<p><P>Throughout the world, neoliberalism functions to decouple learning from the most important elements of civic education, transforming education into training and students into consumers. Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Human Capital Learning is an enormously important book that reveals in pai
Educating for democracy.<br/>Background materials on democratic citizenship.<br/>and human rights education for teachers.<br/>Rolf Gollob, Peter Krapf, Wiltrud Weidinger.<br/>Volume I of Volumes I-VI.<br/>Council of Europe Publishing, 2010.<br/>ΠΠΎΠ»ΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΡΠ²ΠΎ ΡΡΡΠ°Π½ΠΈΡ 159.<br/>The objective of this manua
<p>The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory. Celebrities and other notable public figures participated in human rights campaigns to combat violence in the region. But how do local activists and those th
<p>This book presents a comprehensive overview of selected research concerning global and comparative trends in dominant discourses on human rights education. Using diverse paradigms, ranging from critical theory to historical-comparative research, the book examines major human rights education refo