HOW TO DEFINE HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION?

A Complex Answer to a Simple Question.

Nancy Flowers.

* Shulamith Koenig

(PDHRE):

She posted a definition of HRE via a lively electronic debate & invited reactions. 3000 reactions from HR Educators around the world were strikingly different in illustrating the ways HRE is practiced.

THE PROBLEM OF THE CONFLICTING DEFINITIONS

The Governmental bodies:

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)

Academics and educational thinkers.

THE GOVERNMENTAL BODIES:

NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOS)

ACADEMICS AND EDUCATIONAL THINKERS.

THE PROBLEM OF THEORY

In Moscow, Lenin had declaired:. “Without a revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.” (Lenin 1966: 69)

Paulo Freire’s revolutionary theory.

From Practice to Theory.

THE PROBLEM OF FAITH:

Human Right Education is based on strength of feelings.

Uniting all people on Human Rights Principles.

Human Rights are founded on solidarity with humanity.

Freire conveyed that Human Rights are the Human Feelings and the common language of humanity.