Globalisation and Education Futures: Scaffolding Human Rights Education

Human rights education (HRE) is mandated as an important vehicle for dissemination of human rights education in both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. While some nations and schools have incorporated some aspects of HRE, it has not been comprehensively or universally embedded at the primary, secondary, or higher education levels. Reasons why are explored. Possible explanations include variability of HRE, lack of teacher training, inadequate knowledge of resources, lack of system support, cultural bias, and insufficient research on best-practices. Four tables provide online resources that teachers can access to assist them to incorporate HRE, for primary, secondary, higher education, and programs that aren’t HRE but are designed to promote pro-social student behaviours.