Book Review: Still Not Easy being British: Struggles for a Multicultural Citizenship, Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education, Creating Democratic Citizenship through Drama Education: The Writings of Jonothan Neelands, Teachers and Human Rights Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-242
Author(s):  
Grisel María García Pérez ◽  
Sabre Cherkowski ◽  
Thomas A. Lucey ◽  
Karen Ragoonaden
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Drama Education ◽  
Multicultural Citizenship

"Learning and living democracy for all". Council of Europe Programme promoting Citizenship and Human Rights Education

CADMO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Yulia Pererva
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Member States ◽  
Close Cooperation

- Since 1997, the Council of Europe has supported a Project on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights (EDC/HRE) with the aim of complimenting its treaty related activities in the fields of Human and Social Rights. The article presents the programmes and the initiatives supported and developed by the Council of Europe both at an international and at the national levels as well as the most important adopted texts and publications. It outlines the principles on which partnership and networking are built by the Council of Europe in close cooperation with member states and other regional and international institutions.Keywords human rights education, education for democratic citizenship, international cooperation.

Association News

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (04) ◽  
pp. 806-807
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Participatory Governance ◽  
Association News ◽  
Established Democracies

The APSA Task Force on Democracy, Economic Security, and Social Justice in a Volatile World has released its reportDemocratic Imperatives Democracy, Economic Security, and Social Justice in a Volatile World. The report argues that in emerging and established democracies alike, the promise of democracy remains unfulfilled. The report focuses on policies and institutions designed to deepen democracy by increasing respect for human rights, promoting participatory governance, and se-curing the economic bases of democratic citizenship. It documents how these measures can help to reduce democratic deficits by making government and politics more responsive, more accountable, and more transparent and by enabling citizens to take a greater role in governing themselves.

scholarly journals Developing political compassion through narrative imagination in human rights education

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-44
Author(s):  
Iida Pyy
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Narrative Imagination ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Political Emotions

This paper argues that political compassion is a necessary disposition for engaging with human rights principles and combatting social injustices such as racial discrimination. Drawing from Martha Nussbaum’s theory of political emotions, the paper concentrates on the need to understand compassion as connected to cognition and practical reasoning. Moreover, the paper offers suggestions of how to educate towards political compassion in human rights education (HRE) through Nussbaum’s notion of narrative imagination. To capture the multiperspectival and partial dimensions of HRE, the paper further employs the work of critical HRE scholars and emphasises the importance of counter-narratives and reflective interpretation of narratives. Refined by critical considerations, Nussbaum’s work on compassion and narrative imagination provides a new and important perspective for understanding the relation between human rights, emotions and social justice in the context of contemporary HRE theory and practice.

scholarly journals Book Review of Socio-Economic Rights: Adjudication under a Transformative Constitution by Sandra Liebenberg

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sital Kalantry ◽  
Elizabeth Brundige
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
South African ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
Socioeconomic Rights ◽  
South African Constitution

The South African Constitution is heralded for the broad protections it affords social and economic rights. In Socio-Economic Rights: Adjudication under a Transformative Constitution, Professor Sandra Liebenberg offers a thoughtful examination of the socioeconomic rights jurisprudence developed by South African courts since the adoption of the country’s current constitution fifteen years ago. In meticulous detail, she describes how the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court and other South African courts has evolved in the area of socioeconomic rights. At the same time, she offers an incisive critique of this jurisprudence, identifying how it has too often been shaped by a narrow and formalistic conception of rights that overlooks their social justice purposes and reinforces deeply unequal social and economic relationships. Finally, Liebenberg offers suggestions for the future development of this jurisprudence in ways that would be more consonant with the transformative purposes of the South African Constitution.Published: Book Review of Socio-Economic Rights: Adjudication under a Transformative Constitution by Sandra Liebenberg, 34 Human Rights Quarterly 579 (2012) (with Elizabeth Brundige).

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