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From convention to classroom : the long road to human
rights education
Paula Gerber
Deutschland : Verlag, 2008
ISBN: 9783639096293
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Book description
Human Rights Education is one of the most effective ways of
preventing human rights violations. Yet human rights education in
schools is still not commonplace. Paula Gerber analyses why this is
so. Using a case study approach, she evaluates the extend to which
schools in Melbourne, Australia and Boston, USA are giving effect to the
human rights education norm in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In the process, the author exposes some of the legal and educational
obstacles to widespread school-based human rights education.
Interviews with teachers, government employees and NGOs provide a rich
source of data, and reveal numerous, and diverse impediments to human rights
education. The author offers a new perspective on State's practices
regarding human rights education, and fresh ideas on how to increase State's
compliance with relevant international laws.
This book is for all those interested in human rights education from all
fields including legal, educational and political.
About the author
Paula Gerber is a senior lecturer at Monash University
Law School in Melbourne and Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for
Human Rights Law.
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