Hypocrites or heroes? Thinking about the role of the teacher in human rights education
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Jerome, L. 2018. Hypocrites or heroes? Thinking about the role of the teacher in human rights education. Human Rights Education Review. 1 (2), pp. 46-64. https://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.2873
Type | Article |
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Title | Hypocrites or heroes? Thinking about the role of the teacher in human rights education |
Authors | Jerome, L. |
Abstract | Human rights education (HRE) seeks to provide young people with an optimistic sense that we can work towards a more peaceful and socially just world, and that everyone can do something to contribute to securing improvement. But, whilst the academic literature and policy documents frequently position teachers as crucial to promoting human rights and social justice, the literature is also replete with examples of teachers’ conservatism, their compliance in the face of authority and their ignorance. In addition, teachers work in institutions which routinely reproduce inequality and promote a narrow individualistic form of competition. This article explores some of the international research literature relating to the role of the teacher in HRE specifically, and more generally in the related fields of citizenship education and social studies, in order to offer some conceptual tools that might be used to critically interrogate practitioners’ own beliefs and actions. |
Journal | Human Rights Education Review |
ISSN | 2535-5406 |
Publication dates | |
20 Dec 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 03 Jan 2019 |
Accepted | 10 Dec 2018 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Open |
Copyright Statement | Open Access Policy: Human Rights Education Review provides open access to its contents, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication. Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly credited. https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/human/about |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.2873 |
Language | English |
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