Human Rights Education and the Politics of Knowledge
- London: Routledge, 2017.
- viii, 201p.
9781138779112
1. Introduction: HRE, the politics of knowledge and social transformation Human rights education The context of HRE Power, Knowledge and Ideology critique Organisation of the Book 2. Navigating the Field: orientations in human rights education Technical Interpretative Critical Counter-hegemonic 3. A global discourse of human rights education Evidence of HRE in UN conventions and associated instruments UNESCO and the institutionalisation of HRE 1995 onwards 4. Human rights education scholarship Critical HRE scholarship Practical HRE scholarship Case study: human rights education in Tanzania The Dominant discourse: human rights education as cultural translation 7. Conclusion: learning from the edge: towards HRE as transformative praxis