Teachers And Human Rights Education

by Osler, Audrey; Starkey, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9781858563848
• ISBN10: 1858563844
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-30
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

Why do teachers need to be familiar with human rights? In Multicultural societies, whose values take precedence? How do schools resolve tensions between children's rights and teachers' rights?

Author Biography

Dr Audrey Osler is Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of Leeds, where she was founding director of the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education.
Dr Hugh Starkey is Reader at the Institute of Education, University of London and co-director of the International Centre for Education for Democratic Citizenship

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Acronyms and abbreviations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Human rights: an agenda for action
Three Narratives	p. 1
Contextualising human rights	p. 15
Human rights frameworks	p. 27
Human rights, justice and peace	p. 43
Politics, cultures and inequalities
Women's human rights	p. 59
Human rights and global change	p. 71
Values, cultures and human rights	p. 85
Human rights and democracy in schools
Children's human rights	p. 101
Citizenship education and human rights	p. 113
Human rights, politics and schooling	p. 129
Epilogue	p. 143
References	p. 147
Index	p. 159
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