Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education

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.

Part I Contextualizing Human Rights Education 1 Framing human rights education in the Nordic region 2 Nordic countries’ involvement in the European colonial project and implications for human rights education 3 Revisiting the past: human rights education and epistemic justice 4 The Finnish national human rights institution's approach to human rights education 5 Human rights education in Norway revisited Part II Rights-based approaches 6 The rhetoric and reality of human rights education: policy frameworks and teacher perspectives 7 From informative to transformative practice? Addressing challenges of human rights education in Norway 8 Challenges and possibilities for transformative human rights education in Icelandic upper secondary schools 9 Teachers as human rights defenders: strengthening HRE and safeguarding theory to prevent child sexual abuse 10 Students’ perceptions of learning about gender-based and sexual harassment: A struggle for recognition 11 ‘We are not stupid animals’: Schooling of young neo-Nazis 12 Sámi teacher education emphasising land-based approaches for Indigenous rights 13 National curricula as promoters or obstructers of human rights education 14 Human rights education as a framework for transmitting religion as cultural heritage 15 Human rights and anti-racist teaching in higher education 16 The impact of negative political emotions on human rights education: an asylum seekers’ school visit ban Part III International dialogue 17 Addressing the triple challenge of right-wing populism, nationalism and colonial amnesia in and through human rights education 18 Learning from Latin America in human rights education 19 A human rights approach to membership and belonging