Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms Exemplary Models from Elementary Grades to University

Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms presents ten research-based human rights projects powerfully implemented in a range of U.S. classrooms, from elementary school through community college and university. In these classrooms, the students—primarily young people of color who have experienced or witnessed human rights abuses such as discrimination and poverty—are exposed for the first time to thinking about their own lives and the world through an empowering human rights lens. Unique in integrating theory and classroom practice, and in addressing human rights issues with special relevance for communities of color in the US, Katz and Spero provide indispensable guidance for those studying and teaching human rights.

Susan Roberta Katz is Professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco, USA, where she co-founded the concentration in Human Rights Education. She was awarded the 2014 Sarlo Prize for exemplary teaching and has received Fulbright fellowships in Ecuador and Hungary. She has published articles in Teachers College Record, Social Justice, and Intercultural Education.

Andrea McEvoy Spero serves as Director of Education at The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, USA, and is Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco, USA, where she was the first doctoral graduate in Human Rights Education. Her research focuses on the use of performing arts to teach human rights in an urban high school.

Foreword; Olga Talamante
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 U.S. Schools; Susan Roberta Katz and 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 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 Duran
8. Know Your Rights: Understanding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Jacqueline Fix and Puja Kumar Clifford
9. Teaching The Crucible through Human Rights; Barbara J. Arduini
10. Reframing a Community College Social Problems Class through a Human Rights Perspective; Lindsay Padilla
11. Teaching and Learning Asian American Leadership: A Human Rights Framework; Melissa Canlas
12. Female Genital Mutilation: A Pedagogical Tool To Explore Global Violence Against Women; Onllwyn Cavan Dixon
Afterword: Will Human Rights Be Decolonizing?; K. Wayne Yang