Human rights literacy: Moving towards rights-based education and transformative action through understandings of dignity, equality and freedom

The twentieth century has been characterised by the proliferation of human rights in the discursive practices of the United Nations (Baxi, 1997). In this article, we explore the continual process of rights-based education towards transformative action, and an open and democratic society, as dependen...

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Main Authors: Anne Becker, Annamagriet de Wet, Willie van Vollenhoven
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Education Association of South Africa 2015-05-01
Series:South African Journal of Education
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0256-01002015000200002&lng=en&tlng=en