scholarly journals A Study on the Curriculum of Elementary Social Studies for the Viewpoint of the Multicultural Human-Rights Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-124
Author(s):  
JEON JE CHEOL
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Elementary Social Studies

scholarly journals Hypocrites or heroes? Thinking about the role of the teacher in human rights education

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Jerome
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Just World ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Face

Human rights education (HRE) seeks to provide young people with an optimistic sense that we can work towards a more peaceful and socially just world, and that everyone can do something to contribute to securing improvement. But, whilst the academic literature and policy documents frequently position teachers as crucial to promoting human rights and social justice, the literature is also replete with examples of teachers’ conservatism, their compliance in the face of authority and their ignorance. In addition, teachers work in institutions which routinely reproduce inequality and promote a narrow individualistic form of competition. This article explores some of the international research literature relating to the role of the teacher in HRE specifically, and more generally in the related fields of citizenship education and social studies, in order to offer some conceptual tools that might be used to critically interrogate practitioners’ own beliefs and actions.    

scholarly journals Contextualizing School Textbook Revision

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eckhardt Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
School Textbook ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Studies Teaching

The words “textbook revision” immediately conjure up certain images. We generally think of conflicts surrounding the contents of textbooks, conflicts which are debated in public and usually have an international dimension. Textbook revision generally refers to books on history, geography and social studies, occasionally also religion or biology. It generally relates to those activities aimed at correcting false or distorted interpretations in school textbooks. In addition, it involves two further aspects: improving the quality of teaching with revised textbooks, and conveying universal norms in addition to knowledge of the subject. History and social studies teaching can thus make an important contribution to peace and human rights education.

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