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Title Activating human rights in education : exploration, innovation and transformation / edited by: Christopher Newell and Baden Offord
Published Deakin West, A.C.T. : Australian College of Educators, [2008]
©2008

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 MELB  370.1120994 New/Ahr  AVAILABLE
Description 144 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series College year book ; 2008
College year book ; 2008
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- An Education Revolution for 'the Common Good' -- - The Role of Human Rights Education -- From Convention to Classroom. -- The Long Road to Human Rights Education -- Exposing Issues: Exploring Values. -- Education for human rights in the classroom -- 4 1 -- Towards a Human Rights Practice -- in the Classroom -- Teaching Human Rights at university: -- Critical Pedagogy in action -- From Others to Us and Human Rights Education -- Human Rights and Cultural Studies: -- Innovation through higher education equity -- support projects and community engagement -- Homophobic bullying and human rights: -- non-deficit approaches in queer youth -- wellbeing policy and practice -- Being Human in the Classroom. Human Rights -- Education and Indigenous Pedagogy -- Educare and Human Rights: an Indigenous -- Australian response to the effects of -- colonisation and trauma -- Activating Peace Education: -- A Buddhist-Wisdom Approach
Summary Sets out to explore the explicit and tacit curriculum dimension of human rights education and how human rights can be activated to transform education and educators and thereby the student and society. Most importantly it seeks to resource educators in their daily engagements
Analysis Discrimination
Education
Human rights
Notes Foreword by Michael Kirby
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Education -- Australia.
Education, Higher -- Australia.
Education, Humanistic -- Australia.
Human rights -- Study and teaching -- Australia.
Human rights -- Study and teaching.
Human rights.
Values -- Australia.
Values.
Author Newell, Christopher (Christopher James), 1964-2008
Offord, Baden, 1958-
Australian College of Educators
LC no. 2008428986
ISBN 9781920819989
Other Titles Human rights in education