Contribution to Book
Know Your Rights!.. Whose Rights?... What Right Do You Have?: Knowledge, human rights, and a critical pedagogy of international education
Human Rights in Action: Power, Politics, and Practices
(2016)
Abstract
The urgency of human rights conditions in the world challenges international educators’ well-intentioned pursuit of mutual understanding through cross-cultural exchange. Can mutual understanding itself advance global human rights? How can our understanding of rights lead to a deeper engagement and solidarity of action needed to respond to human rights violations? The capacity to understand the meaning and context of human rights is an epistemological question significant for international education pedagogy and global human rights. This paper explores some of these challenges through a critical assessment of global human rights institutions and the notion of universal norms. Santos’ Epistemologies of the South (2014) offers an alternative philosophy of knowledge based on ecologies of learning and intercultural translation that can advance a critical pedagogy for international education based on global justice and human rights.
Keywords
- human rights,
- critical pedagogy,
- epistemology
Disciplines
Publication Date
May, 2016
Editor
Catherine Colon, Anthony Gristwood, and Michael Woolf
Publisher
CAPA Occasional Publications
Citation Information
Rebecca Hovey. "Know Your Rights!.. Whose Rights?... What Right Do You Have?: Knowledge, human rights, and a critical pedagogy of international education" Boston, MAHuman Rights in Action: Power, Politics, and Practices Vol. 5 (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rebecca_hovey/11/