Andre Keet

Human Rights Education

A Conceptual Analysis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Over the past 15 years, Human Rights Education (HRE) evolved into a burgeoning pedagogical formation that sources its currency and legitimacy from the perceived international consensus on human rights universals. However, the proliferation of HRE is paradoxically not matched by a sustained and meaningful theoretical analysis of HRE though it has far-reaching implications for formal and informal educational systems worldwide. As a result HRE has grown into a declarationist, conservative, uncritical and compliance-driven pedagogy that is in the main informed by a political literacy approach. This book, therefore, provides a systematic conceptual analysis of HRE and proposes alternative conceptual principles for a new form of HRE to emerge. The analysis and proposals should assist HRE practitioners, professionals and scholars to contribute to these developments. This new form will stand in a critical and non-deterministic relationship with human rights universals that will infinitely enhance its transformative and humanising potential.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9783838345383
• ISBN-10: 383834538X
• Artikelnr.: 29017297

Autorenporträt

Andre Keet is based at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa as the director of the Transdisciplinary Programme. He holds a PhD in Human Rights Education from the University of Pretoria where he is an associate professor. Andre is also a part-time Commissioner with the Commission for Gender Equality.