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

by Lindsey N. Kingston (Editor)

Overview

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 University, Kingston begins a critical discussion about the potential of HRE on college campuses and beyond. Chapter contributors address the institutional issues inherent to building a “human rights campus,” promoting just governance models, facilitating student research, and fostering inclusive campus communities. They further explore opportunities within the classroom by highlighting dynamic courses on global sustainable development and post-genocide reconciliation, as well as considering how to create trauma sensitive learning spaces and utilize photography as a human rights teaching tool. Finally, scholar-advocates detail how HRE can be expanded to include the broader community—including teaching critical criminology to aspiring police officers, facilitating community dialogue through academic conferences, and engaging in social justice work related to access to justice, domestic violence, and human trafficking.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319914206
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	08/05/2018
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	247
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lindsey N. Kingston is Associate Professor of International Human Rights at Webster University, USA. She directs Webster University's Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies and is a topical expert on the issues of statelessness and forced displacement.

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.