School Social Studies as a Vehicle for Human Rights Education: Caveats

The social studies curriculum is the obvious "home" of school-level human rights education. As such, social studies as a school subject has the potential to contribute significantly to the empowering function of formal education. A right to human rights education is, however, dependent on...

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Published inJournal of international social studies Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 203 - 209
Main Author Vlaardingerbroek, Barend
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published International Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies 2020
Subjects
Citizenship Education
Civil Rights
Developing Nations
Educationally Disadvantaged
Elementary Secondary Education
Empowerment
International Law
Primary Education
Public Education
Social Studies
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ISSN2327-3585
2327-3585

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Summary:The social studies curriculum is the obvious "home" of school-level human rights education. As such, social studies as a school subject has the potential to contribute significantly to the empowering function of formal education. A right to human rights education is, however, dependent on the right to education as such. With Universal Primary Education (UPE) yet to be achieved, social science educators seeking to use the subject as a means of extending human rights education to children in the most underdeveloped countries need to focus their attention on the primary school curriculum.
ISSN:2327-3585
2327-3585