Challenges and possibilities for transformative human rights education in Icelandic upper secondary schools
Transformative human rights education (HRE) implies a pedagogic intention to generate human rights cultures, protecting against and preventing human rights violations. This article draws on Freirean critical pedagogy to define transformative HRE as requiring four pedagogical principles: an explicit...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:09e07759a2f5458cbe0ab87f526f1008 2023-05-15T16:47:10+02:00 Challenges and possibilities for transformative human rights education in Icelandic upper secondary schools Sue Gollifer 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.4981 https://doaj.org/article/09e07759a2f5458cbe0ab87f526f1008 EN eng OsloMet — Oslo Metropolitan University https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/human/article/view/4981 https://doaj.org/toc/2535-5406 doi:10.7577/hrer.4981 2535-5406 https://doaj.org/article/09e07759a2f5458cbe0ab87f526f1008 Human Rights Education Review (2022) Sociology (General) HM401-1281 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.4981 2022-12-30T20:06:39Z Transformative human rights education (HRE) implies a pedagogic intention to generate human rights cultures, protecting against and preventing human rights violations. This article draws on Freirean critical pedagogy to define transformative HRE as requiring four pedagogical principles: an explicit pedagogic intention; critical engagement on purposes of education; a critical holistic approach; and cosmopolitan perspectives. A thematic analysis of ten upper secondary school teachers’ narratives on working with human rights in Iceland reveals reliance on tacit rather than explicit pedagogical intentions, a lack of critical engagement on purposes of education, and limited opportunities to develop human rights and HRE knowledge, inhibiting a critical holistic approach and cosmopolitan perspectives. However, the narratives offer content and contexts that provide possibilities to develop the four pedagogical principles required for transformative HRE through processes of critical relational dialogue. This paper raises questions of significance for teacher education in Iceland and internationally. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Human Rights Education Review |
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Transformative human rights education (HRE) implies a pedagogic intention to generate human rights cultures, protecting against and preventing human rights violations. This article draws on Freirean critical pedagogy to define transformative HRE as requiring four pedagogical principles: an explicit pedagogic intention; critical engagement on purposes of education; a critical holistic approach; and cosmopolitan perspectives. A thematic analysis of ten upper secondary school teachers’ narratives on working with human rights in Iceland reveals reliance on tacit rather than explicit pedagogical intentions, a lack of critical engagement on purposes of education, and limited opportunities to develop human rights and HRE knowledge, inhibiting a critical holistic approach and cosmopolitan perspectives. However, the narratives offer content and contexts that provide possibilities to develop the four pedagogical principles required for transformative HRE through processes of critical relational dialogue. This paper raises questions of significance for teacher education in Iceland and internationally. |
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Challenges and possibilities for transformative human rights education in Icelandic upper secondary schools |
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