Creativity, Social Justice and Human Rights within Adult Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susannah Brown
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Incarcerated Women ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Creative Problem

In this paper, the author describes philosophical concepts of adult learning and their application as integrated with creative problem solving within the context of social justice and human rights. The context is framed by the work of the United Nations (1992) which emphasizes importance of women's roles and creativity in the process of forming a global community. Foundational theories (Gardner, 1999; Greene, 1995; Knowles, 1975; Lawrence, 2005; & Vygotsky, 1978) are connected to support this philosophical approach to adult learning. Creative application examples are shared featuring changes in women's education and subsequently their lives such as, a project guided by artist, Vic Muniz (Walker, Jardim, Harley, & Muniz, 2010) and an arts-based education program that changed the lives of incarcerated women in one female correctional facility (Mullen, 1999). The goal of this paper is to provide examples of how creativity and arts-based learning can be integrated within adult education promoting social justice and human rights.

scholarly journals Beyond the Trinity of Gender, Race and Class

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Cindy Hanson ◽  
Amber Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Intersectionality Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The Trinity

Research exploring the gendered dimensions of adult learning has blossomed in the past two decades. Despite this trend, intersectional approaches in adult learning, research, and teaching remain limited primarily to the three categories of gender, race, and class. Intersectionality theory is more diverse than this and includes discussions of social structures, geographies, and histories that serve to build richer, more nuanced descriptions of how privilege and oppression are experienced. Because the purpose of intersectionality is to understand how social identities are constructed and to challenge the structures of power that oppress particular social groups, this approach is important for feminist and social justice educators. The Canadian authors of this manuscript posit that adult learning should move beyond intersectionality that focuses only on the trinity of gender + race + class in order to consider the nuances of inequality and the true complexities of representation and collective identities. By exploring literature in feminism, adult education, and intersectionality, they illustrate a gap at the core of adult education for social justice. Finally, they use two examples to illustrate how intersectionality works in practice.

Ally Model of Social Justice in Social Work

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Extensive List

The ally model of social justice is a philosophical approach that is congruent with social work’s values and emphasis on social justice and human rights. Using concepts from multiple identities and social justice, it directs those with privilege to act on behalf of those without privilege who belong to a different social group. It is developmental in nature and contains an extensive list of specific ally characteristics that inform social workers at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and system levels. Despites its limitations, the ally model of social justice is instructive for all social workers regardless of setting as they continue the profession’s mission to eliminate social injustice.

scholarly journals Race, Racism, and Inconvenient Truths

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
J. Daryl Charles
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Behavioral Factors ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The U.S

The United Nations-sponsored Human Rights Council’s recent report on racial discrimination delivers a torrent of social justice jargon to indict the U.S. system as critically flawed, omitting any discussion of behavioral factors that contribute to racial inequality.

The United Nations, Gendered Human Rights, and Peacekeeping since 1945

2020 ◽  
pp. 745-766
Author(s):  
Sandra Whitworth
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Peace Operations ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
And Gender

Feminist observers of peacekeeping have asked why very little has changed within the peacekeeping of the United Nations (UN) since 1945, despite a greater overall attention to questions of gender within the UN. For example, despite calls for greater representation of women on missions, they continue to constitute a small fraction of the personnel deployed; despite calls to “gender mainstream” missions, peace operations often result in heightened insecurity for some women and girls. This chapter examines the evolution of UN peacekeeping alongside an examination of the greater attention devoted to questions of women and gender within the UN system from 1945 to the present. It argues that the ultimately “problem-solving” approach to gender and peacekeeping adopted by the UN limits the possibility of any substantive impact its policies around gender may ever achieve.

The growing presence of LGBTQIs at the UN: Arguments and counter-arguments

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 1126-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick J Mulé ◽  
Maryam Khan ◽  
Cameron McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
United Nations ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Marginalized Populations ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Social ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Political Landscapes

This article explores the anti-LGBTQI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex) campaigns’ rise to power at the United Nations (UN), nation state sovereignty (of the member states), and criminalization LGBTQI assembly and association. Emphasis is placed on how these arguments are implemented and affect the social and political landscapes of LGBTQI rights promotion. Findings from primary interviews (conducted with UN bodies, agencies, and affiliates) are critically analyzed. The article concludes by challenging the arguments posed against LGBTQI rights being taken up as human rights from a social justice perspective and social work’s role in protecting and supporting these marginalized populations in the international arena.

scholarly journals What’s in it for me? Barriers to participation in adult learning in small communities of western Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Cari-Ann Roberts Gotta
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Barriers To Participation ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Financial Gain ◽  
Training Programmes

This article examines educators’ and policymakers’ efforts at addressing barriers and supporting adult students’ access to, and success in, small communities in western Canada. Research indicates that, despite the provision of financial support and flexible and varied delivery modes, and a focus on meeting learner needs, adult learner participation rates in Canada are currently lower than those in other countries. Government policies and programmes are aimed at employability: they currently focus on trade and vocational training programmes that meet the needs of the job market. This single-minded approach of funding programmes that meet economic needs promotes the ideal that the primary purpose of education is the financial gain that comes from securing employment, or better employment, as a result of one’s studies – this as opposed to recognising the role adult education can play in fostering social justice. What is argued here is that, in order to increase participation in adult education, one does not necessarily need greater resources but rather a shift in cultural values – a shift from valuing education solely as a means to employment towards valuing it as a means of individual and community development. Greater numbers of people must see the value of adult learning and recognise the ways that it can contribute to equity and social justice in their lives and communities. This article calls for research that will delve deeply into the barriers to participation in adult education in the wider context of our society. I hope that Canadian students, educators and policymakers will create room for social justice and equity alongside their employment-focused approach to adult learning, and that nations with an emerging discourse will revisit the implications of considering adult education as being solely aimed at employability.

scholarly journals Eleanor Roosevelt’s blindspot:

2011 ◽  
pp. 107-111
Author(s):  
Geraldine Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
African Americans ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
White House ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The World ◽  
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt was an American Hero. She had overcome great personal adversity by the time she read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1948. The occasion represented the pinnacle of her life’s work as an esteemed humanitarian. The title, “First Lady of the World”, bestowed upon her by President Harry Truman was considered well deserved in view of her efforts for social justice and the protection of minorities – for those whose lives had been shattered by the Great Depression, for African Americans and for European Jewry when it was targeted by Hitler. While the stories of the years of her marriage to Franklin Delano Roosevelt have attracted the attention of historians and resulted in numerous scholarly and popular works, the post-White House period has been thus far neglected. It is this latter stage that my research considers. It is ...

APA efforts in promoting human rights and social justice.

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (8) ◽  
pp. 778-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick T. L. Leong ◽  
Wade E. Pickren ◽  
Melba J. T. Vasquez
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice
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