Open AccessSuggestions for Critical Awareness, Accountability, and Transformation in Human Rights Education
Author(s) -
William J. Foley
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
current issues in comparative education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1523-1615
DOI - 10.52214/cice.v23i1.8141
Subject(s) - human rights , declaration , accountability , human rights education , ideology , political science , sociology , engineering ethics , pedagogy , values education , environmental ethics , public administration , law , politics , philosophy , engineering
Human Rights Education exists as an implementing entity of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Scholars such as Andre Keet and others have criticized the dissemination of universal rights through education because it covets Western ideology over local ethical and epistemological constructs. Using Tibbitts’ revised typologies of Human Rights Education, this paper offers suggestions for critical pedagogy for the teaching of, for, and through Human Rights. These suggestions are drawn from examples of critical practice from throughout the world.