"These Rights Go Beyond Borders and Pieces of Paper": Urban High School Teachers and Newcomer Immigrant Youth Engaging in Human Rights Education

<p>This qualitative study explored the ways that two ninth and tenth grade teachers and their newcomer immigrant students engaged in HRE using elements of critical pedagogy at an urban pubic high school. Research data included eight months of classroom observations and interviews with two teachers and nineteen of their students across four of their classrooms. In this study, the complexity of engaging in HRE with newcomer students was brought to light as two teachers enacted their vision of critical pedagogy, human rights content and learning goals, as well as English language instruction.</p> <p>The findings in this study conveyed that engaging in HRE was relevant to students' lives and provided meaningful opportunities to learn English while developing skills to articulate their struggles with racism, discrimination, gender issues, and immigration through the language of human rights. This study also highlighted the complications of HRE in practice with vulnerable youth.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

International and Multicultural Education

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• Schiller, Juliet A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Emma H. Fuentes
• Susan R. Katz
• Judith L. Pace

• Adolescents
• Critical Pedagogy
• Human Rights Education
• Newcomer Youth
• Qualitative
• Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
• Education
• Teacher Education and Professional Development

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/diss/87

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:diss-1076