Human Rights and Citizenship Education

by Dina Kiwan (Editor)

Overview

This book considers the philosophical, sociological and legal implications of the distinction between universal human rights accorded to all because of their membership of the human species, and the more particularistic ‘citizenship’ rights, accorded to those who are members of a political community. Contributions come from a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields including education, law and political philosophy, as well as from practitioner perspectives. Contributions address the three themes of firstly whether human rights and citizenship are complementary or competing conceptions, secondly the justifications for human rights, and thirdly human rights and citizenship in different cultural contexts.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138789708
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/17/2014
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dina Kiwan is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, since September 2012, and formerly a Senior Lecturer in Citizenship Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and co-director of the International Centre for Education for Democratic Citizenship (ICEDC), University of London, UK. Other publications include Kiwan, D. (2008). Education for Inclusive Citizenship (Routledge), and Kiwan, D. (ed). (2013) Naturalization Policies, Education and Citizenship: Multicultural and Multination Societies in International Perspective.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Human rights and citizenship education: re-positioning the debate Dina Kiwan 2. Cosmopolitan democracy: a restatement Daniele Archibugi 3. Human rights, cosmopolitanism and utopias: implications for citizenship education Hugh Starkey 4. Being human or being a citizen? Rethinking human rights and citizenship education in the light of Agamben and Merleau-Ponty Ruyu Hung 5. Human rights and public education Bill Bowring 6. Human rights within education: assessing the justifications Tristan McCowan 7. Human rights education in Japan: an historical account, characteristics and suggestions for a better-balanced approach Sachiko Takeda 8. Human rights, education for democratic citizenship and international organisations: findings from a Kuwaiti UNESCO ASPnet school Rania Al-Nakib