scholarly journals SPEAKING RIGHTS: YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH A PARTICIPATORY APPROACH

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3.1) ◽  
pp. 489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Cooper ◽  
Vincenza Nazzari ◽  
Julie Kon Kam King ◽  
Annie Pettigrew
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Motivation To Participate

Using Equitas’ Speaking Rights Program as a best practice example, this article outlines the essential practices and conditions of a participatory approach to human rights education for youth, and explores how this approach effectively supports youth empowerment. The authors maintain that programs that use a participatory approach to human rights education are more likely to engage youth in actions for social change within their communities. They suggest that youth workers who are trained and well equipped to address issues that are on the minds of youth are critical in helping youth develop the skills and motivation to participate.

Social Transformative Learning in Human Rights Delegations: Critical Research on the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network

2021 ◽  
pp. 154134462110503
Author(s):  
Lisa Rankin ◽  
Leona M. English
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Critical Research

This article examines the experience of six participants in the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS) delegation program. Human rights education is central to this program that operates between Canada and Guatemala. Key findings from this research include participants’ rethinking of their own power and privilege upon returning to Canada and making connections with the struggle of Indigenous peoples in both countries. Another finding concerns how specific communal aspects of the BTS delegation (communitas) lead to social transformation and the development of solidarity relationships that are transformative to all. The research affirms the need for experiential learning experiences which use transformative learning approaches to support human rights and social change.

scholarly journals More than a Mural: The Intersection of Public Art, Immigrant Youth, and Human Rights

2016 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 55-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marissa A. Gutiérrez-Vicario
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Young People ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Global Competency ◽  
Community Art ◽  
The Arts

“….What makes somebody an American is not just blood or birth, but allegiance to our founding principles and the faith in the idea that anyone from anywhere can write the next great chapter of our story.”-U.S. President Barack Obama, January 2013 I am most interested in exploring the idea of the construction of global citizenship and engagement around human rights education of young immigrant youth through the arts, particularly public art in the form of muralism. I will use some of the work of Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE), an organization that engages young people around human rights through the arts, as a case study. Some questions that may be explored include:How can educators break down unfamiliar human rights jargon and demonstrate the relevance of human rights on both a local and global level to young immigrant youth?  How can young people be galvanized into exploring the human rights of their home countries and the countries they have immigrated to, utilizing the arts?How can art be used to cultivate global understanding and human rights education among young people, most specifically through public art?In efforts for communities to construct more democratic public spaces, one often finds that these spaces manifest themselves as murals or similar forms of public art. What are more creative ways of building a more democratic form of community art? What are more creative ways for young immigrant youth to develop a sense of belonging through the arts?  Overall, this proposal seeks to explore the intersection between public art, human rights education/global competency, and immigrant youth empowerment. The proposal will discuss the involvement of immigrant youth, predominately from Latin America, in various art projects, as they explore their own sense of identity and belonging in New York City. 

Between Remembrance and Repair

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Whitlinger
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into

Few places are more notorious for civil rights–era violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 “Mississippi Burning” murders. Yet in a striking turn of events, Philadelphia has become a beacon in Mississippi’s racial reckoning in the decades since. Claire Whitlinger investigates how this community came to acknowledge its past, offering significant insight into the social impacts of commemoration. Examining two commemorations around key anniversaries of the murders held in 1989 and 2004, Whitlinger shows the differences in how those events unfolded. She also charts how the 2004 commemoration offered a springboard for the trial of former Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen for his role in the 1964 murders, the 2006 passage of Mississippi’s Civil Rights/Human Rights education bill, and the initiation of the Mississippi Truth Project. In doing so, Whitlinger provides the first comprehensive account of these high profile events and expands our understanding of how commemorations both emerge out of and catalyze associated memory movements. Threading a compelling story with theoretical insights, Whitlinger delivers a study that will help scholars, students, and activists alike better understand the dynamics of commemorating difficult pasts, commemorative practices in general, and the links between memory, race, and social change.

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