Beyond Human Rights Education

Re-Imagining Sociality for Participatory Striving

Authors

  • Sabine Krause sabine.krause@unifr.ch
  • Raphael Zahnd University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
  • Wayne Veck University of Winchester
  • Michelle Proyer
  • Oliver Koenig
  • Magdalena Hanková

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20355/jcie29786

Keywords:

human rights, human rights education, UNDHR

Abstract

This article presents a theoretical elaboration based on the thesis that the UN Declaration on Human Rights (UNDHR) is not sufficient to realize co-creative practices for a (world) society based on the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. We argue that these goals are not a legal but a social task and responsibility rooted in a deeply social concern. In addressing the difficult implementation of UNDHR, the article turns to notions of the fellow human being and relatedness as the foundation of a society. Philosophical concepts and anthropological perspectives are used to demonstrate how education as “coming into practice” (Biesta, 2006) plays a central role in preparing individuals for sociality, understood as a way of getting to know different worlds, seeking diversity, striving for understandings, and finding connections to oneself by embracing “otherness.”

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Published

2025-12-19

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2025): Special Issue: Human Rights in Education

Section

Articles

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