Schooling for Social Change offers fresh perspectives on the emerging field of human rights
education in India. 60 years after independence, the Indian schooling system remains …

Background: Human rights education initiatives have proliferated in the past three decades
and can be found in policy discussions, textbook reforms and grassroots initiatives across …

Prakash in India narrated tearfully how at age 11 his parents sold him into bonded labor. He
begged to return and his classmates pleaded with his parents. After more than a year in …

Over the past seven decades, human rights education has blossomed into a global
movement. A field of scholarship that utilizes teaching and learning processes, human rights …

This article presents data collected at the level of practice to highlight one non-governmental
organization's approach to human rights education and how household-, school-, and …

Pedagogies for Development takes a sociological approach to examine the introduction of
child-centred education in contemporary Indian policy and school contexts. It investigates …

Globalization, education, and, in the last sixty-five years, human rights, interact in complex
ways not reducible to a singular, linear argument. 1 In this chapter, I examine the ways in …

Across the globe, inequalities in educational access and achievement, as well as high levels
of absolute educational deprivation of both children and adults persist, despite decades of …

The RSS/BJP has attempted to effect a radical departure in the existing educational ethos
through the use of both state power and the instruments of'civil society'. This article looks at …

For many students in urban public schools, the routines of standards-based instruction and
frequent testing remove the possibilities for sustained inquiry and critical engagement in …