Human Rights in Higher Education Institutional, Classroom, and Community Approaches to Teaching Social Justice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kingston, Lindsey N. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy
• Subjects: Higher education.; Environmental education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Political science.; Economic development-Environmental aspects.; Higher Education.; Environmental and Sustainability Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Governance and Government.; Development and Sustainability.

This book focuses on human rights education (HRE) in higher education, with an emphasis on supporting undergraduate education for social justice and global citizenship at the institutional, classroom, and community levels. Drawing from the work of human rights scholars and advocates at Webster Unive...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. "The Ideal of a Human Rights Campus"
• Chapter 2. "Social Justice Programs and Just Administrative Practices"
• Chapter 3. "Faculty-Student Collaborative Human Rights Research"
• Chapter 4. "Supporting Inclusive Campus Communities: A Student Development Perspective"
• Chapter 5. "Real-World Survivor: Simulating Poverty to Teach Human Rights and Sustainable Development"
• Chapter 6. "Context Alters Perception: The Importance of Travel in Human Rights Education"
• Chapter 7. "Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Environment for Teaching Human Rights"
• Chapter 8. "What Do You Think You're Looking At? The Responsibility of the Gaze"
• Chapter 9. "Education as Resistance: Teaching Critical Criminology to (Aspiring) Cops"
• Chapter 10. "Human Rights Conferences and Facilitating Community Dialogue"
• Chapter 11. "Community-Based Social Justice Work: The WILLOW Project"
• Chapter 12. "The Bijlmer Project: Moving the Classroom into our Community to Combat Human Trafficking"
• Chapter 13. Conclusions. .