ERIC Number: EJ1173230
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Jun
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The Inconsistent Past and Uncertain Future of Human Rights Education in the United States
Sirota, Sandra
Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, v47 n1-2 p101-117 Jun 2017
This article examines how the U.S. government's stance on human rights and human rights education has shifted from leading the creation of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights through the United Nations Human Rights Commission, with Eleanor Roosevelt as chair of the Commission, to one in which human rights education has only a minimal presence in the U.S. schooling system. It explores the trajectory of human rights education's inclusion in curriculum standards, drawing comparisons with other countries. Based on interviews with 32 members of the national volunteer network, Human Rights Educators USA, some of whom have been working in the human rights education field since the 1980s, the article addresses barriers to implementing human rights education in the present day and how they might be overcome.
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Federal Government, Government Role, Educational History, Inclusion, Curriculum, Standards, Comparative Education, Interviews, Barriers, Curriculum Implementation, International Organizations, International Law
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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