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Lakshminarayanan, Radhika; Thomas, Dolly – Human Rights Education Review, 2022
Human Rights Education (HRE) is critical to human development and societal transformation. In India, although HRE emerged in the 1980s, its incorporation in higher education has not yet reached its full potential. Using the state of Tamil Nadu as our case study, this paper evaluates the integration of courses on human rights in universities and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Social Justice, Social Change, Higher Education
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Bajaj, Monisha – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background/Context: Human rights education has proliferated in the past four decades and can be found in policy discussions, textbook reforms, and grassroots initiatives across the globe. This article specifically explores the role of creativity and imagination in human rights education (HRE) by focusing on a case study of one non-governmental…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Disadvantaged
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Bajaj, Monisha – Educational Research, 2011
Background: Human rights education initiatives have proliferated in the past three decades and can be found in policy discussions, textbook reforms and grassroots initiatives across the globe. This article specifically explores the role of teachers in human rights education (HRE) by focusing on a case study of one non-governmental organisation's…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Focus Groups, Interviews, Foreign Countries
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Bajaj, Monisha – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
This article presents data collected at the level of practice to highlight one non-governmental organization's approach to human rights education and how household-, school-, and community-level factors mediated student impact. Findings suggest that a variety of factors at the three levels contribute to the program's successful implementation in…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged, Power Structure