Human Rights Literacies: Future Directions

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This book adds impetus to the nexus between human rights, human rights education and material reality. The dissonance between these aspects is of growing concern for most human rights educators in various social contexts. The first part of the book opens up new discourses and presents new ontologies and epistemologies from scholars in human rights, human rights education and human rights literacies to critique and/or justify the understandings of human rights’ complex applications. Today’s rapidly changing social contexts and new languages attempting to understand ongoing dehumanization and violations, put enormous pressure on higher education, educators, individuals working in social sciences, policy makers and scholars engaged in curricula making.The second part demonstrates how global interactions between citizens from different countries with diverse understandings of human rights (from developed and developing democracies) question the link between human rights and it’s in(ex)clusive Western philosophies. Continuing inhumane actions around the globe reflect the failure of human rights law and human rights education in schools, higher education and society at large. The book shows that human rights education is no longer a blueprint for understanding human rights and its universal or contextual values presented for multicomplexial societies. The final chapters argue for new ontologies and epistemologies of human rights, human rights education and human rights literacies to open-up difficult conversations and to give space to dissonant and disruptive discourses. The many opportunities for human rights education and literacies lies in these conversations. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The ‘Literacy Turn’ in Human Rights and Human Rights Education (Cornelia Roux)....Pages 3-30 (Re)Framing the Subject(s) of Rights (Anne Becker)....Pages 31-51 Unconditionally Human? Decolonising Human Rights (Crain Soudien)....Pages 53-71 Human Rights Literacies Research: (Re)think Approaches and Methodologies (Anne Becker, Cornelia Roux)....Pages 73-98 Front Matter ....Pages 99-99 Subjects and Failed Subjects in Place-Space-Time: The Quest for Meaning (Cornelia Roux, Anne Becker)....Pages 101-122 Student Teachers Coping with Changing Times: The Intersection of Student-Teachers’ Understanding of Human Rights Issues and Their Cultural Identity (Janina Jasper, Hermann J. Abs)....Pages 123-151 More Than Education: Reflections on Student Teachers’ Understanding of Human Rights (Ina ter Avest, Erica Stedenburg)....Pages 153-179 Human Rights Education in the South African Higher Education Context: (Im)possibilities for Human Rights Literacies (Annamagriet de Wet, Shan Simmonds)....Pages 181-209 Israeli Students’ Understandings of and Attitudes to Human Rights and Literacies (Zehavit Gross, Rotem Maor)....Pages 211-234 Sectarian Violence and Ethnic Conflict in India: Issues and Challenges (Ashwani Kumar, Souradeep Banerjee)....Pages 235-256 Front Matter ....Pages 257-257 Human Rights RIP: Human Rights Literacies—Critique and Possibilities (Liam Gearon)....Pages 259-275 (Re)Capturing Human Rights Literacies: Starting Conversations (Anne Becker, Cornelia Roux)....Pages 277-300