Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms

Part I. Overview of Human Rights Education

1. Building a Human Rights Education Movement in the United States
Felisa Tibbitts

2. The Challenges and Triumphs of Teaching for Human Rights in US Schools
Susan Roberta Katz, Andrea McEvoy Spero

Part II. Pedagogical Tools

3. Each One, Teach One: The History and Legacy of the Black Panther Party for an Elementary School Audience
Jessie Blundell

4. The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living: Human Rights Education in the Elementary Classroom
Erin Brennan

5. Bringing to Life Human Rights Education in the Science Classroom
Annie S. Adamian

6. Challenging Islamophobia in the Middle School Classroom: Using Critical Media Literacy to Teach Human Rights
Kelly Delaney

7. Tout moun se moun “Every Person Is a Human Being”: Understanding the Struggle for Human Rights in Haiti
Victoria Isabel Durán

8. Know Your Rights: Understanding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Jacqueline Fix, Puja Kumar Clifford

9. Teaching The Crucible through Human Rights
Barbara J. Arduini

10. Reframing a Community College Social Problems Course through a Human Rights Perspective
Lindsay Padilla

11. Teaching and Learning Asian American Leadership: A Human Rights Framework
Melissa Ann Canlas

12. Female Genital Mutilation: A Pedagogical Tool to Explore Global Violence against Women
Onllwyn Cavan Dixon

13. Afterword: Will Human Rights Education Be Decolonizing?
K. Wayne Yang

Keywords: Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Philosophy, International and Comparative Education, Human Rights, Curriculum Studies, Educational Policy and Politics