*All past webinars can be viewed on our Human Rights Education Review YouTube channel.
January 17, 2024 – Piers von Berg, Birmingham City University, Transformative HRE in Higher Education through citizenship education research View Recording
How might a university global citizenship programme enable students to draw on lived experiences of human rights and develop profound empathy and human solidarity?
In this webinar, Piers von Berg reports on his experiences of designing and researching a university-based global citizenship education programme, using participative theatre. Piers illustrates how he enabled students to engage in authentic reflection and how the pedagogical methods he employed stimulated new ‘becomings’ in students’ civic identities and sense of agency.
Piers reflects on ways in which the theories and practices he used can be understood as a form of transformative human rights education. He discusses how participatory theatre can be used to support students in recognising the human dignity of excluded others and their experiences of injustice, thereby extending their sense of community, solidarity and agency. He proposes this theatre-based learning as an alternative to market-driven university-based global citizenship education, allowing student participants to observe themselves in action.
Read Piers’s article here: http://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.5120
December 7, 2023 – HRE USA Human Rights Day Virtual Celebration View Recording
November 20, 2023 – André Keet and Felissa Tibbitts Book Launch Emancipatory Human Rights and the University View Recording
November 15, 2023 – Ricardo Roemhild (Muenster, DE), Human rights perspectives in language education for sustainable development View Recording
October 18, 2023 – Kjersti Draugedalen, Alison Struthers, and Ruth Brittle (USN, NO; Leicester and Warwick UK), Teachers and school safeguarding: how can human rights education help? View Recording
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