Human Rights,Diversity, and Citizenship Education |
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| Authors: | James A Banks |
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| Institution: | University of Washington , |
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| Abstract: | The 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a propitious time for educators to examine its implications for educating citizens in multicultural nation states. The author argues that students must experience democratic classrooms and schools that reflect their cultures and identities to internalize human rights values, ideals, and behaviors. Schools in nations around the world make it difficult for students to acquire human rights ideals and behaviors because they pursue assimilationist goals that do not provide students civic equality and recognition. Citizenship education needs to be reformed so that it will help students to internalize human rights ideals and behaviors. |
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| Keywords: | diversity inclusive education school psychology/student counseling secondary education |
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