Overview
- Demonstrates ideological imperatives of globalisation, and discourses of human rights education reforms
- Evaluates the nexus between globalisation, and human rights education reforms and policy issues
- Offers a valuable sourcebook of ideas on human rights education
Part of the book series: Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research (GCEP, volume 28)
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About this book
Written by authors from diverse backgrounds and regions, the book examines current developments in research concerning human rights education. The book enables readers to gain a more holistic understanding of the nexus between humanrights education, and dominant ideologies, both locally and globally. It also provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly insights into international concerns in the field of human rights education in the context of global culture.
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Keywords
- Comparative education
- Critical theory
- Human rights education
- Human rights education policy
- Human rights education reforms
- Cultural capital in education
- Democracy in education
- Discourse analysis
- Discourses of globalisation
- Globalisation and education
- Ideology and education
- Inequality and education
- Neo-liberalism
- Social justice
Table of contents (12 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yvonne Vissing is Professor and Policy Chair for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Founding Director of the Center for Childhood & Youth Studies and Chair of the Sociology Department at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts USA. Dr. Vissing has also created a nonprofit organization to assist communities to advocate for improved community, child and family services. Author of five books with several others near completion, Dr. Vissing has presented her work at international and national meetings and is engaged in work that has both an international and a domestic focus. A true child advocate, she has trained thousands of professionals and students in a framework that is based upon the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child to work with, and for, children’s rights. As the research director for the Department of Sociology, she conducts both quantitative and qualitative research, and coordinates her region’s annual research conference. Her main areas of concentration have focused upon economic well-being of children and families, education, health, legal rights, and community obligation and comprehensive services. Vissing worked to create a national peace conference for youth, has been a major contributor to Oxford University’s Encyclopedia of Peace.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discourses of Globalisation, Ideology, and Human Rights
Editors: Joseph Zajda, Yvonne Vissing
Series Title: Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90590-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90589-7Published: 12 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90592-7Published: 12 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90590-3Published: 11 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2543-0564
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0572
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 221
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Curriculum Studies, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Higher Education, Education Policy