Why Are We Involved in Human Rights and Moral Education? Educators as Constructors of Our Own History

Autor/in	Kolstrein, Abraham Magendzo
Titel	Why Are We Involved in Human Rights and Moral Education? Educators as Constructors of Our Own History
Quelle	In: Journal of Moral Education, 40 (2011) 3, S.289-297 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7240
DOI	10.1080/03057240.2011.596327
Schlagwörter	Ethical Instruction; Curriculum Development; Civil Rights; Democracy; Foreign Countries; Ethics; Latin Americans; Moral Values; Jews; Bias; Poverty; Death; History; Neighborhoods; Personal Narratives; Social Change; Educational Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Chile + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Demokratie; Ausland; Ethik; Latin America; People; Lateinamerika; Bevölkerung; Volk; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Armut; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Erlebniserzählung; Sozialer Wandel; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Lehrerverhalten
Abstract	My professional interest originally focused on curriculum planning and development, but for the last 30 years I have been researching, publishing and teaching in the field of human rights education. Suddenly, I became a human rights educator. Suddenly? No, nothing in our personal and professional life is the result of an abrupt occurrence. We are subjects of a particular history, a succession of events and narratives, located in time, space and circumstances. I constructed myself, consciously or unconsciously, as a human rights educator as a consequence of many personal factors. Being the son of the first Rabbi in Chile, I felt, at a very early age, that I was different and suffered from discriminatory behaviour, prejudice and intolerance. In addition, I started to learn about the Holocaust. I lived in a poor neighbourhood and poverty had a profound impact on me. During the 1960s and 1970s many political changes took place in Chile. Severe human rights violations occurred, not only in Chile but also in the different contexts of many other Latin American countries. I became much more aware of, and sensitive to, human rights and their ethical implications. I decided to make use of my educational knowledge towards recovering democracy. I became a strong supporter of human rights education as an ethical and moral imperative throughout Latin America. (As Provided).
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