Activating Cultural and Social Change: The Pedagogies of Human Rights

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Foreword: imagining and enacting hopeful futures in human rights education
	References
1. The pedagogies of human rights: in truthfulness, what should be done?
	Digging into the pedagogy of human rights
	Structure and organisation
	Conclusion
	References
Part I: Contexts
2. Context-centred decolonial pedagogy for human rights education in Africa
	Introduction: context-centred pedagogy of human rights
	Two Africas, two contexts
	The invention of Africa as nothingness
	Thingification
	The thingification of nature
	The colonising structure
	Conquest
	Construction
	Pedagogical lessons
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
3. Human rights pedagogy in context: critical Indigenous studies
	Introduction
	Background: Indigenous Studies in the Australian academy
	Contemporary contexts: the prevalence of liberal approaches
	Critical Indigenous Studies
	Anti-colonialism
	Critical tools
	Critical race theory
	The critical analysis of whiteness
	Intersectionality
	The critical anti-colonial framework
	Difficult knowledge and uncomfortable pedagogies
	Conclusion
	References
4. "Here we are equal": refugee-run schools as a vehicle for human rights pedagogy
	Introduction
	Method
	The Indonesian context
		Students
		Teachers
		Parents
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
5. The pedagogics of disability-Indigenous intersectionalities in the age of austerity
	Introduction
	Decolonising pedagogies and disabling practices: framing our praxis
	Pedagogics of hope, resistance and solidarity: researching austerity with disability-Indigenous communities
	Understanding rights intersectionally: the materiality of Indigenous and disability rights under settler-colonial governance
	The age of austerity: contextualising research pedagogies of human rights
	Refusing disability in the age of austerity: the pedagogics of race in settler-colonial Australia
		Disability denied: contesting Indigenous embodied experiences of disability and care
		Denying disability rights, entrenching Indigenous poverty and inequality
	Conclusion: Intersectional rights based pedagogies in settler-colonialism
	References
6. Pedagogies of resistance for challenging Islamophobia
	Introduction
	The faces of Islamophobia
	Situating Islamophobia
	The universal hold of Islamophobia in the West
	Contributors to Islamophobia and the yielding of power
		Law, policy and professions
		Media and social media
		Right-wing influencers
	Remoulding human rights education
	Overcoming barriers to countering Islamophobia
	Unfinished business
	Note
	References
Part II: Perspectives
7. A pedagogy of dissent for human rights education
	Introduction: situating this pedagogy
	The formal development of human rights education within the UN
	The UN approach to HRE: an uncritical framework
	Dissent, dialogue and transformation
		Dissent
		Dialogue
	Conclusion: from dissent and dialogue to transformation
	References
8. Collective work with people seeking asylum: pedagogical encounters and the role of the human rights academic
	Policy overview
	A collective response to the exclusion of people seeking asylum from higher education
	The role of the activist-academic
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
9. Other echoes in the garden: human rights, peripheral vision and ghosts
	Introduction
	Hungry ghosts, human rights and education
	Visualising human rights: representing ghosts
	Intersections: The Bamiyan Buddhas
	The backyard
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
10. Centring and decentring the "human" in human rights pedagogy
	The humanities
	Decentring the human
	Post-human rights
	Human rights pedagogy
	References
11. Human Rights Film Festivals: more than witnessing
	Introduction
	Human Rights Film Festivals
	Some historical context for the Human Rights Film Festival
	Distant suffering
	"Beyond the film" and social change
	Spectator and the life-world
		Third Cinema: active spectatorship
	Instrumentalism of film?
	By way of ending
	Note
	Filmography
		References
Part III: Practices
12. Cultivating human connection in the everyday: a practical model for solidarity
	Introduction
	Nurturing true solidarity in community: the Befriend social network
	Disrupting traditional supports: critical pedagogy
		Case Study: Identitywa
		Key change mechanisms
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
13. Educating the heart: a journey into teaching First Nations human rights in Australia
	Indigenous ways of knowing in Indigenous human rights education
	How is Indigenous human rights education done?
	Being a First Nations facilitator/teacher
	What happens when people join such Indigenous human rights classes?
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
14. Student approaches to learning in human rights education: supporting deep and transformative learning in postgraduate peace and conflict studies
	Introduction: human rights in higher education - towards cultures of peace
		Pedagogy and practice in Peace and Conflict Studies
		Redeveloping Religion, War and Peace
	Student approaches to learning: finding the "inner logic" of HRE in PACS
	Conceptions of learning and approaches to study
	Factors affecting adoption of deep or surface approaches to learning
	Revisiting student approaches to learning in Religion, War and Peace
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
15. Online refugee advocacy campaigns in Australia: approaches to care and an affective human rights pedagogy
	Introduction: refugees and ethics of care
	Asylum seeker policy in Australia: a political lockdown?
	Framing an ethics of care: an overview of advocacy strategies
	Textual analysis of three Manus Island and Nauru-related campaigns
		RISE: background and Shut Down Manus campaign
		Refugee Action Coalition Sydney: background and Manus and Nauru campaign
		GetUp!: background and pro-refugee campaigns
	Conclusion: an effective affective pedagogy
	Notes
	References
16. Mainstreaming accessible digital technologies in higher education: a human rights approach to disability inclusion
	Introduction
	Locating disability in society
	A human rights approach
	Methodology
	An overview of the survey population
	Students' use of assistive ICT: quantitative findings
	Students' use of assistive ICT: qualitative analysis
	A human rights approach to disability inclusion
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
17. Roundtable: connection, community and context
	References
Index