Critical Human Rights Education Advancing Social-Justice-Oriented Educational Praxes /

• Main Authors: Zembylas, Michalinos (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Keet, André (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education, 13
• Subjects: Education-Philosophy.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Educational Philosophy.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Philosophy of Education.

This book engages with human rights and human rights education (HRE) in ways that offer opportunities for criticality and renewal. It takes up various ideas, from critical and decolonial theories to philosophers and intellectuals, to theorize the renewal of HRE as Critical Human Rights Education. Th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Does Human Rights Education Exist?
• 2. It is Time: Critical Human Rights Education in an Age of Counter-Hegemonic Distrust
• 3. The Political and Pedagogical Renewal of Human Rights Education
• 4. Towards an Agonistic Account of Human Rights Education
• 5. Capital Rights: Human Rights Education and Neoliberal Pedagogies
• 6. Political Depression, Cruel Optimism and Pedagogies of Reparation
• 7. Plasticity, Critical Hope and the Regeneration of Human Rights Education
• 8. Affect and Counter-Conduct: Cultivating Action for Social Change
• 9. Crisis and Critique: Critical Theories and the Renewal of Citizenship-, Democracy-, and Human Rights Education
• 10. Decolonial Strategies and Pedagogical/Curricular Possibilities
• 11. Conclusion: An Unfinished Project.