Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education: Research and Practice for Social Justice [Hardcover]

Backed by a range of case studies and recent developments in human rights education research, Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education guides readers through an analysis of educational inequities and identifies how internationally agreed-upon human rights standards may inform social justice practices within schools.

Audrey Osler is a writer and Professor of Education at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Norway. She is Professor Emerita of Citizenship and Human Rights Education at the University of Leeds, UK.

Beate Goldschmidt-Gjerl?w is a political scientist and holds a PhD in social science education from the University of Agder in Norway.

Part I Contextualizing Human Rights Education   1 Framing human rights education in the Nordic region   2 Nordic countries involvement in the European colonial project and implications for human rights education   3 Revisiting the past: human rights education and epistemic justice   4 The Finnish national human rights institution's approach to human rights education   5 Human rights education in Norway revisited   Part II Rights-based approaches   6 The rhetoric and reality of human rights education: policy frameworks and teacher perspectives   7 From informative to transformative practice? Addressing challenges of human rights education in Norway   8 Challenges and possibilities for transformative human rights education in Icelandic upper secondary schools   9 Teachers as human rights defenders: strengthening HRE and safeguarding theory to prevent child sexual abuse   10 Students perceptions of learning about gender-blCI