Tsolakis, MZ;
(2013)
Citizenship and Transformative Human Rights Education: Surveys as ‘Praxis’ in the São Paulo Periphery.
Journal of Social Science Education
, 12
(3)
pp. 39-50.
10.4119/UNIBI/jsse-v12-i3-1253.
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Abstract
ground-up movements. For this reason, a transformative human rights education (HRE) framework, largely based on ideals of Paulo Freire, is useful for considering the roles and processes of citizenship education in Latin America. This article explores the concept of human rights education as a form of citizenship education and uses the core principals of Freire’s work, along with Paul Giroux’s ‘border pedagogy,’ to elucidate the enactment of transformative HRE. This article also highlights the use of surveys as a Frereian pedagogical tool in transformative human rights and citizenship education. The concept of surveys as praxis is derived from a small, qualitative case study of Rights Now!, a programme that teaches about the right to education to disadvantaged youth from the São Paulo periphery. Observational data, survey data from students and interview data all illustrate transformative citizenship education in action. Finding show that surveys were effective as a pedagogical tool within a broader environment of problem-posing education and with the guidance of a welltrained teacher.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Citizenship and Transformative Human Rights Education: Surveys as ‘Praxis’ in the São Paulo Periphery |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4119/UNIBI/jsse-v12-i3-1253 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.4119/UNIBI/jsse-v12-i3-1253 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Human rights education, citizenship, critical pedagogy, border pedagogy, Brazil, survey, dialogue |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1554698 |
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