Browsing by Subject "human rights education"
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Human rights literacy: Moving towards rights-based education and transformative action through understanding of dignity, equality and freedom
(Education Association of South Africa, 2015)The twentieth century has been characterised by the proliferation of human rights in the discursive practices of the United Nations (Baxi, 1997). In this article, we explore the continual process of rights-based education ... -
Human rights literacy: moving towards rights-based education and transformative action through understandings of dignity, equality and freedom
(Education Assoc South Africa, 2015)The twentieth century has been characterised by the proliferation of human rights in the discursive practices of the United Nations (Baxi, 1997). In this article, we explore the continual process of rights-based education ... -
Life Skills teachers’ experiences of human rights education: possibilities for transformative curriculum development
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)One would expect schools in a democratic country to be a safe haven. Unfortunately this is not the case for all schools. In many South African schools, human rights violations persist. Even though the Life Skills curriculum ... -
Mapping the curriculum-making landscape of religion education from a rights education perspective
(Association for the study of religion in South Africa (ASRSA), 2014)With the advent of democracy in South Africa, religious education became a contested topic in the education sector. Contestation stemmed from the desire to embrace religious plurality rather than Christian National Education ... -
Narratives of child trafficking survivors in rehabilitation: conceptualisations of freedom for human rights education
(North-West University, 2018)Children are being trafficked for sexual exploitation in virtually every country in the world (USDS, 2016:340). As yet, however, qualitative studies have not produced a clear conceptualisation of child trafficking for ... -
Student teachers' understanding of the position of values and morality in human rights applications, promotion and education
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)Despite the existence of theory and a body of knowledge on the concept of 'human rights' that is based largely on national law, international law, human rights theories and human rights discourses, human rights remain a ...