Teaching human rights? ‘All hell will break loose!’

Human rights education is a prominent concern of a number of international organisations and has been dominant on the United Nations’ agenda for the past 20 years. The UN Decade for Human Rights Education (1995–2004) has been followed by the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005–ongoing)...

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Published in:Education, citizenship and social justice citizenship and social justice, 2014-03, Vol.9 (1), p.19-33
Main Authors: Cassidy, Claire, Brunner, Richard, Webster, Elaine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Barriers
Childrens Rights
Civil Rights
Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Course Content
Educational Resources
Familiarity
Focus Groups
Foreign Countries
Interviews
Knowledge Level
Online Surveys
Parent Attitudes
Scotland
Self Efficacy
Student Teacher Attitudes
Teacher Education Programs
Teaching Experience
United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Summary:Human rights education is a prominent concern of a number of international organisations and has been dominant on the United Nations’ agenda for the past 20 years. The UN Decade for Human Rights Education (1995–2004) has been followed by the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005–ongoing) and the recently adopted UN Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training. This article shares findings from a project that aimed to gauge the knowledge of human rights education of students undertaking initial teacher education and childhood practice programmes at one university in Scotland. Students were invited to share their experiences of and attitudes towards human rights education. While some students were confident in their approach to human rights education, others identified barriers, including their own knowledge and the structures acting upon them as teachers. Initial conclusions suggest that education students feel ill-equipped to engage with human rights education and that this issue must be addressed in initial teacher education courses.
ISSN:1746-1979
1746-1987
DOI:10.1177/1746197913475768