Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship

by Abdi, Ali A.; Shultz, Lynette

• ISBN13: 9780791473733
• ISBN10: 0791473732
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-06
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Nearly sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in spite of progress on some fronts, we are in many cases as far away as ever from achieving an inclusive citizenship and human rights for all. While human rights violations continue to affect millions across the world, there are also ongoing contestations regarding citizenship. In response to these and related issues, the contributors to this book critique both historical and current practices and suggest several pragmatic options, highlighting the role of education in attaining these noble yet unachieved objectives. This book represents a welcome addition to the human rights and global citizenship literature and provides ideas for new platforms that are human rights friendly and expansively attuned toward global citizenship. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship: An Introduction	p. 1
A Call and Response: Human Rights as a Tool of Dignity and Transformation	p. 11
Human Rights: Four Generations of Practice and Development	p. 25
Are We All Global Citizens or Are Only Some of Us Global Citizens?: The Relevance of This Question to Education	p. 39
Caught Between Imaginaries: Global Citizenship Education and the Persistence of the Nation	p. 55
De-subjecting Subject Populations: Historico-actual Problems and Educational Possibilities	p. 65
The Short History of Women, Human Rights, and Global Citizenship	p. 81
Re/presentation of Race and Racism in the Multicultural Discourse of Canada	p. 97
Popular Education and Human Rights: Prospects for Antihegemonic Adivasi (Original Dweller) Movements and Counterhegemonic Struggle in India	p. 113
Human Rights Education and Contemporary Child Slavery: Creating Child-Friendly Villages When States, Communities, and Families Fail to Protect	p. 129
Toward Minority Group Rights and Inclusive Citizenship for Immigrants: The Role of a Voluntary Organization in Vancouver, Canada	p. 143
Traditional Peoples and Citizenship in the New Imperial Order	p. 159
Human Rights Imperialism: Third Way Education as the New Cultural Imperialism	p. 177
Citizenship and its Exclusions: The Impact of Legal Definitions on Metis People(s) of Canada	p. 193
An Introduction to Librarianship for Human Rights	p. 205
Reconstructing the Legend: Educating for Global Citizenship	p. 223
Threads of My Life (Spanish Original)	p. 239
List of Contributors	p. 243
Index	p. 249
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