Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education: Entanglements and Regenerations (Bloomsbury Critical Education)

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 open access 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, law, sociology, health sciences and social work and international development. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched Cover 1 Half-title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Series Editor’s Foreword 9 Notes on Contributors 12 1. Introduction 19 Part 1: Key Theoretical Issues 33 2. Crisis and Critique: Critical Th eories and the Renewal of Citizenship, Democracy , and Human Rights Education 35 3. Toward a Decolonizing Approach in Human Rights Education: Pedagogical Openings and Curricular Possibilities 53 4. Exploring Power and Discourse in Human Rights Education 69 5. The Critical Potential of Using Counternarratives in Human Rights Education 85 6. The Hermeneutics of Human Rights Education for Deliberative Democratic Citizenship 103 7. Contested Universalism and Human Rights Education: Can There Be a Deliberative Hybrid Solution for Schooling? 119 Part 2: Case Studies 139 8. Fostering Harmony and Dealing with Difference in Education: A Critical Review of Perspectives on Intergroup Relations 141 9. Children’s Rights in India: Critical Insights on Policy and Practice 157 10. Toward a Multiplicity: Human Rights and Other Vocabularies of Justice in Pakistan 175 11. Bridging the “Values Gap”: Human Rights Education, Ideology, and the Global-Local Nexus 191 12. Rights-based Schooling: The Hampshire Experience 209 13. From Transforming Human Rights Education to Transformative Human Rights Education: Context, Critique, and Change 227 Afterword: Yet Another Reading 243 Index 253 "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. 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 such as education, law, sociology, health sciences and social work and international development