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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Human Rights Education"”.
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Teaching a Human Rights Education Through Youth Athletics
<p>Throughout my research and work in education I realized there is often a disconnect between schooling and students especially in low-income areas. It can be incredibly difficult to feel confident at school when the curriculum is not relatable to your experiences and life. In this paper I explore …
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Recreating Resistance: Rape Culture Resistance Through Human Rights Education
… rape culture on college campuses as a human rights violation and ways to address it in an intersectional manner through human rights education. The research for this project, conducted through a literature review, provides the ability to look at rape culture through a human rights …
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Where East Meets West: Human Rights Education in Bulgaria
… creative writing curriculum based upon Human Rights Education (HRE) to provide U.S. teachers with foundational resources to teach Bulgarian students about human rights to build intercultural tolerance. It provides U.S. teachers in Bulgaria with a creative writing curriculum that promotes …
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Four Chords to Freedom - Human Rights Education through Music Performance
… with decolonizing, postcolonial feminist human rights education to serve as a space for transformative praxis in formal and non-formal educational settings. This field project includes observations from the activity, as well as recommendations for educators who are interested in combining …
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Translating Transformative Human Rights Education through Visual Languages & Informal Spaces
… methods, theories, and practices of translating human rights education through multiple vernaculars. Developed as a workshop in sociocultural syntax deconstruction and an educational human rights education website focused on the domestic population of the US, the project focuses on localizing …
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Supporting Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals: Participatory Action Research in Human Rights Education
<p>Human rights education (HRE) holds the potential for educators to begin an honest dialogue with students and to connect local issues with international struggles for human rights. However, HRE and other teaching approaches that build understanding of systems of power and oppression that lead to …
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Human Rights Education through Community Radio: The Promotion of Afro-Colombian Women’s Identity and Rights
… community, as well as to claim and defend their rights. This thesis project presents how La Red Nacional de Mujeres Afrocolombianas, Kambirí, a national network of Afro-Colombian women, has used community radio as a tool for imparting Human Rights Education to women through the promotion of their …
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Theories of human rights in relation to understandings of human rights education: the relevance to diversity
This study explores theories of human rights in order to assess how these are reflected in human rights education (HRE). It uses and develops Dembour‟s (2006) four way categorisation of human rights schools, that is, the natural law, deliberative, protest and discourse schools. The thesis is …
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Muslim Perceptions of Human Rights in the Light of Culture, and the Need for Human Rights Education
<p>Studies have pointed out that human rights education (HRE) can help improve cultures and social life by empowering individuals, groups, and communities. HRE can also push cultures to change their perspectives toward other human beings and their own rights. Yet it may be important to consider a …
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"These Rights Go Beyond Borders and Pieces of Paper": Urban High School Teachers and Newcomer Immigrant Youth Engaging in Human Rights Education
… 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 …
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"My Gut Has To Feel It": A Participatory Action Research Study of Community College Educators Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Human Rights Education
… California community college teachers who teach human rights. The following meta-question guided this research: "Given the role of emotions in challenging injustice, as well as in engaging in personal and societal change, what role do emotions play when teaching in a community college?" Data …
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Teaching for Freedom: A Case in Ghana
… the years 1995 to 2004 as the Decade for Human Rights Education. The principles of human rights education promote dignity, tolerance, and peace by educating individuals and groups to respect, defend, and advocate for their rights. These rights are enshrined in the Universal Declaration of …
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"This is a Public Record": Teaching Human Rights Through The Performing Arts
… in the United States often experience daily human rights violations such as racism and violence. Therefore, Human Rights Education (HRE) can strengthen their understanding of these issues and unleash their power to act toward positive change. This qualitative study attempted to gain a deeper …
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Saving the home of the tadpoles one tree at a time: A framing and pedagogical analysis of Wangari Maathai's green belt movement
… engaged in environmental protection, feminism, human rights, education, sustainable development, democratic participation, and peace issues, amongst others. This diverse approach to social change makes it sometimes difficult to place the GBM within current social movement theory. To further our …
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Reimagining Ability, Reimagining America: Teaching Disability in United States History Classes
<p>In service to the FAIR Education Act (2012) and the awareness-raising mission of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2008), this project reviews historical and educational literature about disability in the United States and provides a curriculum guide for teaching Human …
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Palestinian young people’s perspectives and experiences of human rights, inside and outside schools: a participatory qualitative study in the occupied West Bank
… West Bank, Palestinian young people learn about human rights through human rights education (HRE) whether they attend a private, UNRWA or government school. Nonetheless, young people and their teachers are aware that the largely Eurocentric and decontextualized vision of human rights underpinning …
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Schooling for conflict transformation : a case study from Northern Uganda
… the chances of sustainable peace. Access to education is a factor but relatively little is known about the contribution of what students learn in school. This thesis aims to respond to a research gap by addressing the foll owing question: 'How can schooling contribute to conflict …
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An Exploration of the Conceptualisation and Enactment of Children’s Rights in the Curriculum for Wales
… conceptualisation and enactment of children’s rights in the Curriculum for Wales which commenced in schools from September 2022. Literature from a multidisciplinary field exploring children’s rights has mostly focused on constructs of the child and childhood or critically analysing the United …
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Advancing the girl child movement: a potential mechanism to curtail sexual gender-based violence against women in South Africa
… 1996 has not translated into reality and the rights enshrined in the supreme law have not dissipated incidents of violence against women. With the aforesaid in mind, this paper intends to contribute to the array of solutions already developed, in order to assist in countering the most extreme …
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Women's right to access family planning and maternal health care services in Hwange rural district, Zimbabwe: challenges and opportunities
The significance of reproductive health and rights cannot be overemphasised. Investment in the rights of rural women, specifically their reproductive health rights, is a fundamental determinant of their empowerment and social development. Access to reproductive health services enables rural women …
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