Overview
- Highlights the possibilities, challenges, and key questions central to building a human rights campus
- Proposes a shift from the traditional educational paradigm and explores the value of taking the classroom into the community to engage in social justice work
- Outlines best practices in education to teach students about fundamental rights to food, water, education, family, health, freedom of movement, and cultural participation
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy (GCED)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Institutional Approaches
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Classroom Teaching
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Community Engagement
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Book Title: Human Rights in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Institutional, Classroom, and Community Approaches to Teaching Social Justice
Editors: Lindsey N. Kingston
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91421-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91420-6Published: 20 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08250-5Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91421-3Published: 04 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-2711
Series E-ISSN: 2946-272X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 247
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Governance and Government, Development and Sustainability