Human Rights Education: A Historical, Methodological and Critical Analysis
The rise of human rights activism in the last quarter of the 20th century has turned human rights into a discourse of the modern age by giving a positive acceleration to the evolution of human rights towards an institutional structuring. The potential of human rights, which are structured through a...
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| description | The rise of human rights activism in the last quarter of the 20th century has turned human rights into a discourse of the modern age by giving a positive acceleration to the evolution of human rights towards an institutional structuring. The potential of human rights, which are structured through a normative construct, to transform societies has become a main focus of international institutions/organizations. Such an institutional structuring practice for human rights has revealed the need to gain insight into the declarative, conceptual and institutional framework of human rights. Focusing on human rights education for building a value system has become an institutional goal. Rights education as an ideological and pedagogical strategy is structured with the aim of disseminating and systematizing the universal human rights regime. The methodology of human rights education is not rhetorical or dialectical between trainer and trainee; it can be viewedas an operational process. At the same time, the teaching process for the knowledge of rights can be defined as a behavioral form transfer structured and internalized with values. Human rights education, which has many definitions based on different theoretical perspectives and tendencies, is exposed to a wide range of theoretical and conceptual criticism ranging from essentialist approaches to formalist and critical approaches in the globalizing world. The focus of these criticisms is towards the emergence of a regulatory human rights practice with the reduction of human rights to law. It is considered that human rights education has to focus on the erosion of citizenship, democracy and human rights under the devastating effect of deepening social injustice in the world built on neo-liberal policies. The theoretical development dynamics of the rights education makes a participatory perspective with multi-stakeholders and multi-actors essential. It is therefore clear that the national human rights institutions should be more involved in the rights education as an institutional actor. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1dafd79692d646bda10c060a811f35882025-08-20T02:57:35ZengIstanbul University Pressİstanbul Hukuk Mecmuası2667-69742022-12-018041373141210.26650/mecmua.2022.80.4.0009123456Human Rights Education: A Historical, Methodological and Critical AnalysisMuharrem Kılıçhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7937-3998The rise of human rights activism in the last quarter of the 20th century has turned human rights into a discourse of the modern age by giving a positive acceleration to the evolution of human rights towards an institutional structuring. The potential of human rights, which are structured through a normative construct, to transform societies has become a main focus of international institutions/organizations. Such an institutional structuring practice for human rights has revealed the need to gain insight into the declarative, conceptual and institutional framework of human rights. Focusing on human rights education for building a value system has become an institutional goal. Rights education as an ideological and pedagogical strategy is structured with the aim of disseminating and systematizing the universal human rights regime. The methodology of human rights education is not rhetorical or dialectical between trainer and trainee; it can be viewedas an operational process. At the same time, the teaching process for the knowledge of rights can be defined as a behavioral form transfer structured and internalized with values. Human rights education, which has many definitions based on different theoretical perspectives and tendencies, is exposed to a wide range of theoretical and conceptual criticism ranging from essentialist approaches to formalist and critical approaches in the globalizing world. The focus of these criticisms is towards the emergence of a regulatory human rights practice with the reduction of human rights to law. It is considered that human rights education has to focus on the erosion of citizenship, democracy and human rights under the devastating effect of deepening social injustice in the world built on neo-liberal policies. The theoretical development dynamics of the rights education makes a participatory perspective with multi-stakeholders and multi-actors essential. It is therefore clear that the national human rights institutions should be more involved in the rights education as an institutional actor.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/C970854AE2DE4CEE9CF343CFF4CAF81Dhuman rightsrights educationcultural pedagogyinternalized rights teaching methodphilosophy of valuesnational human rights institutions |
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