Rooted Human Rights Education as Critical Global Citizenship Praxis

• In Event: Cultivating Peace through Resistance: Teaching for Justice Across Borders and Histories

Proposal

This paper discusses the field of Human Rights Education (HRE) and its intersections with the field of Global Citizenship Education (GCE), both now more than fifty years into their existence as discourse and practice communities. We trace the emergence of transformative, critical, and decolonial forms of human rights education and offer a new conceptual framework for Rooted HRE. Rooted HRE offers a transformative approach to fostering critical global citizenship (CGC) by embedding global frameworks within the immediacy of local struggles. It draws on critical perspectives on global citizenship (Andreotti, 2011; Gaudelli, 2016), Transformative Human Rights Education (Bajaj et al., 2016), and transnational belonging (Dyrness, 2021). We also offer student perspectives to frame the principles of Rooted HRE. This paper illuminates how rootedness in specific social, political, and environmental contexts enables learners to connect their immediate realities to global and unequal systems of power, equity, and justice.

Authors

• Monisha Bajaj, University of San Francisco

• David Andrew Tow, UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO