In 2024 HRER / International Association for Human Rights Education continues our research-focused webinar series, (formerly known as HRER/ WERA International Research Network for Human Rights Education (2019-2024).

All are welcome. IAHRE members will normally have priority booking.

 

HRER/ IAHRE webinar 1

Wednesday 9 October 2024 17.30-18.30 (Berlin CET); 16.30 – 17.30 (London)

Facing the difficult past - Nordic involvement in European colonialism: implications for human rights education

Marta STACHURSKA-KOUNTA

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The Nordic countries are widely seen as champions of democracy, human rights and peace building. This idealized image is often promoted alongside a parallel vision of the region as separate from the European colonial project and colonial power relations. A self-perception of being untouched by colonial legacy presents an obstacle in addressing human rights in education and society, including experiences of exclusion, discrimination and racism. In this webinar, Marta Stachurska-Kounta will draw on historical research and on a study of history textbooks to illustrate the fallacy of Nordic colonial innocence and the risks of glossing over the difficult past. She will discuss how history education might be strengthened to support education for human rights and racial justice. By revisiting and interrogating modes of colonial complicity and examining predominant worldviews, teachers and students may be empowered be more effective champions of democracy and human rights, sensitive to the power asymmetries that students of colour and other migrant learners encounter at school.

To read Marta’s full article go to https://tinyurl.com/3kxctpyb

Stachurska-Kounta, M. (2025). Nordic countries’ involvement in the European colonial project and implications for human rights education. In A. Osler & B. Goldschmidt-Gjerløw Nordic perspectives on human rights education: Research and practice for social justice. London; Routledge.

 

 

HRER/ IAHRE webinar 2

Thursday 7 November 2024 13.00 (Mexico City) 16.00 (Buenos Aires) 19.00 (London) 20.00 (Madrid CET)

Nordic perspectives on human rights education: Theory and research for social justice

Beate GOLDSCHMIDT-GJERLØW

Audrey OSLER

The webinar will be mainly in Spanish

Convener: Victoria Kandel

This webinar is arranged in collaboration with the Latin American Network of Human Rights Education and will be conducted mainly in Spanish.  

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The book Nordic perspectives on human rights education: theory and research for social justice (ed. Osler & Goldschmidt-Gjerløw, 2025) guides readers through an analysis of educational inequalities and identifies how internationally agreed human rights standards can transform social justice practices in national educational systems. The editors will introduce the volume and look forward to discussion and debate on learning for human rights across countries and regions.

Divided into three distinct sections, the chapters invite readers to consider:

• The context behind human rights education
• Rights-based approaches to teaching and education
• International dialogue and how to learn from approaches in other countries

Drawing on research from all five nations in the Nordic region and discussing its implications elsewhere, this book is an essential resource for scholars developing theory and practice in human rights education, social studies, citizenship education, and international and comparative education.

 

Beate Goldschmidt-Gjerløw is a political scientist and educational researcher affiliated with the University of Agder in Norway.

Audrey Osler is Professor Emerita of Citizenship and Human Rights Education at the University of Leeds and Editor-in-Chief of Human Rights Education Review.