1st Edition
Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education Research and Practice for Social Justice
Part I Contextualizing Human Rights Education
1 Framing human rights education in the Nordic region - Audrey Osler and Beate Goldschmidt-Gjerløw
2 Nordic countries’ involvement in the European colonial project and implications for human rights education - Marta Stachurska-Kounta
3 Revisiting the past: human rights education and epistemic justice - Rebecca Adami
4 The Finnish national human rights institution's approach to human rights education - Kristiina Kouros, Reetta Toivanen and Tuija Kasa.
5 Human rights education in Norway revisited - Hadi Strømmen Lile
Part II Rights-based approaches
6 The rhetoric and reality of human rights education: policy frameworks and teacher perspectives - Audrey Osler and Jon Arne Skarra
7 From informative to transformative practice? Addressing challenges of human rights education in Norway - Knut Vesterdal
8 Challenges and possibilities for transformative human rights education in Icelandic upper secondary schools - Sue E. Gollifer
9 Teachers as human rights defenders: strengthening HRE and safeguarding theory to prevent child sexual abuse - Kjersti Draugedalen and Audrey Osler
10 Students’ perceptions of learning about gender-based and sexual harassment: A struggle for recognition - Beate Goldschmidt-Gjerløw
11 ‘We are not stupid animals’: Schooling of young neo-Nazis - Christer Mattson
12 Sámi teacher education emphasising land-based approaches for Indigenous rights - Elisabeth Utsi Gaup, Pigga Keskitalo, Satu-Maarit Korte and Sylvia Moore
13 National curricula as promoters or obstructers of human rights education - Ann Quennerstedt
14 Human rights education as a framework for transmitting religion as cultural heritage - Eva Lindhardt
15 Human rights and anti-racist teaching in higher education - Mira C. Skadegård
16 The impact of negative political emotions on human rights education: an asylum seekers’ school visit ban - Iida Pyy and Anniina Leiviskä
Part III International dialogue
17 Addressing the triple challenge of right-wing populism, nationalism and colonial amnesia in and through human rights education - Farzana Shain
18 Learning from Latin America in human rights education - Tristan McCowan
19 A human rights approach to membership and belonging - Angela M. Banks
Biography
Audrey Osler is a writer and Professor of Education at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Norway. She is Professor Emerita of Citizenship and Human Rights Education at the University of Leeds, UK.
Beate Goldschmidt-Gjerløw is a political scientist and holds a PhD in social science education from the University of Agder in Norway.
