Human rights as cultural globalisation. The rise of human rights in textbooks, 1890-2013.

Autor/inn/en	Bromley, Patricia; Lerch, Julia
Titel	Human rights as cultural globalisation. The rise of human rights in textbooks, 1890-2013.
Quelle	Aus: Fuchs, Eckhardt (Hrsg.); Bock, Annekatrin (Hrsg.): The Palgrave handbook of textbook studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2018) S. 345-356 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Palgrave handbooks
Beigaben	Illustrationen; Literaturangaben S. 354-356
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-1-137-53141-4; 978-1-137-53142-1
DOI	10.1057/978-1-137-53142-1
Schlagwörter	Schulbuch; Unterricht; Menschenrechte
Abstract	Today, the topic of human rights and its attendant values and skills are routinely celebrated in schools. Although it was not always the case, human rights education (HRE) is now relatively common in curricula and classrooms around the world. In this chapter, we first briefly review the evolution of HRE into a core concern for the international community and a mainstream facet of mass schooling. We then offer an overview of common theoretical and methodological approaches and central themes in the academic scholarship on HRE, with a particular emphasis on work addressing the incorporation of human rights and related topics into school textbooks. In the final sections of the chapter, we turn to an under-studied aspect of the HRE phenomenon and a promising area for future research: namely, explaining why HRE has become so prevalent worldwide. To this end, we present new empirical evidence documenting the striking expansion of human rights discussions in textbooks around the world over the whole twentieth century. Overall, HRE is best understood as a cultural phenomenon that has emerged in two phases: first, there was a period of institutionalisation in the years leading up to and in the wake of the two World Wars. A second period of rapid diffusion began in the 1990s with the end of the Cold War and entrenchment of neoliberal ideologies.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2019/1