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Human Rights Education Review
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Award winning peer-reviewed scholarly journal, founded 2018
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rhre20/about-this-journal
Published on behalf of International Association for Human Rights Education
Founding Editor-in-Chief: @audreyosler.bsky.social
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Festive Greetings from HRER

We are thankful.

To our authors, readers, reviewers, guest editors, human rights activists, researchers, and educators across the word, we value you!

Your support during this year of growth and development for HRER has inspired us.
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⭐️IAHRE 2026 Münster now open for registration

⭐️Reimagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World

⭐️Earlybird rate til 4 March 2026

⭐️Network with HRE
researchers, activists & HRER editors

⭐️Keynotes:
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December 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Festive Greetings from HRER

We are thankful.

To our authors, readers, reviewers, guest editors, human rights activists, researchers, and educators across the word, we value you!

Your support during this year of growth and development for HRER has inspired us.
December 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Check out this review of Karen Glistrup’s book by @carmelward.bsky.social and reflect on its importance for all concerned with #ChildRights

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December 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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⭐️We’re excited to announce this article exploring how young children, their parents, carers & teachers understand their rights
⭐️A ground-breaking article on #HumanRightsEducation in early childhood by @carmelward.bsky.social
⭐️Deserves to be widely read
⭐️ #OpenAccess
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Recontextualising young children’s human rights education in Rwanda
Children’s human rights education in early childhood should be constructed in contextualised ways that respect traditional values, yet dominant Western-centred research often overlooks cultural syn...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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⭐️NEW article from Shuang Huang @jldevincenzo.bsky.social & Thomas Chandler @columbiauniversity.bsky.social on ⭐️positioning Gen AI in #HumanRightsEducation, addressing disaster risk reduction & youth #empowerment
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Positioning generative AI within human rights education: a scalable framework for inclusive disaster risk reduction and youth empowerment
As global challenges like climate change and social inequities intensify, inclusive, rights-based education is increasingly urgent. Human rights education (HRE) empowers youth to understand and adv...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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NEW in our Special Issue edited by @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh, Alexander Krouglov’s review of #Globalisation #HumanRights & #Education
A wide-ranging edited collection by Yvonne Vissing & Joseph Zajda

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Globalisation, Human Rights and Education
Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 8, No. 3, 2025)
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November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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NEW book review by @matkinson956.bsky.social examining 2034 publication by TM Collins: ‘Children’s Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youth’
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Children’s rights in professional practices with children and youth
Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 8, No. 3, 2025)
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November 25, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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NEW article on how social studies textbooks in #Pakistan address #HumanRights questions
Delighted to report the 2nd of two articles in 2025 analysing textbooks in the country
In Special Issue on #gce and #hre with editors @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh t
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Human rights education in Pakistani textbooks: a critical discourse analysis
This study employs critical discourse analysis to examine human rights discourses in grade 5 social studies textbooks across public and private schools in Pakistan, where nation-building, Islamic v...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Exploring how stories with female role models might contribute education for girls’ rights
Kate Mackenzie explores possible tensions between human rights & global citizenship values
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Real-life and fictional role models as a resource for rights education for and about girls
Mae Jemison, Little People Big Dreams by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara and Janna Morton, tells the story of the first African American woman astronaut. In the novel Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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NEW How do national policy agendas shape understanding of #GCE & human rights?
Studying #EFL teachers in China Enze Guo & @zczlpz1.bsky.social discuss views of justice-oriented #HigherEducation teachers
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@drcarolineferguson.bsky.social

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Patriotic global citizenship? Reinterpreting insights from university EFL teachers in China
This study investigates how Chinese university English as a Foreign Language teachers conceptualise global citizenship in the context of global polycrisis and China’s rising international prominenc...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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NEW Lipei Wang discusses how a Chinese high school rethinks #HumanRights & #GCE thro’ Confuscian values
Read this through a university library or join #IAHRE to read it & more for free global-iahre.org/membership/

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Rethinking human rights and global citizenship education through Confucian values: insights from a Chinese high school
This article explores a Confucian perspective on human rights education (HRE) and global citizenship education (GCE). In dialogue with Western liberal and communitarian traditions of human rights a...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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In the latest edion of HRER Dr Arabia Habibi discusses the power of the implicit and how human rights and global citizenship education might play out in Chinese universities
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The power of the ‘implicit’: enacting global citizenship education and human rights education in chinese higher education classrooms
This article draws on ethnographic descriptions of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and Human Rights Education (HRE) implicit teaching and learning practices on non-compulsory topical courses at ...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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✔️NEW Call for Papers from HRER

✔️Intercultural history, human rights and citizenship education for inclusion in diverse societies

✔️Scholars are encouraged to submit abstracts by 6 January 2026

✔️Invited papers due by 31 May 2026
For further details visit
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Human Rights Education Review
Special Issue 2027: Intercultural history, human rights, and citizenship education for inclusion in diverse societies Call for Papers: deadline for abstract submission – 6 January 2026&n…
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November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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⭐️NEW Ricardo Roemhild & Greg William Misiaszek argue Earth’s rights are integral to #HRE since social & environmental justice is interrelated
⭐️Check this out in Special Issue on #GlobalCitizenshipEd & human rights
⭐️Edited by @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh

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Are human rights enough? – extending HRE frameworks through ecopedagogical perspectives
This article explores intersections of human rights (HR) discourses and (environmental) global citizenship education (GCE) by applying ecopedagogical perspectives to expand both HR frameworks and G...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Delighted to be publishing this, HRER’s first article focusing on #SriLanka
Hoping to publish many more!
@hrer.bsky.social has an open call for papers
@kalpanid.bsky.social @rkshanks.bsky.social @suzanneegan.bsky.social @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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⭐️NEW #OpenAccess article by Lasni Buddhihashika Jayasooriya

⭐️Examines Sri Lankan #civics curriculum

⭐️ #HRE for living together #postconflict

#peace #SriLanka
#GlobalCitizenshipEd

⭐️in Special Issue on #gce with editors @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh

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Human Rights Education and Global Citizenship: an analysis of Sri Lankan Civic Education curricula
Human Rights Education (HRE) is crucial for Sri Lanka, having endured a 26-year-long civil war and various violent experiences arising from ethnic, religious and political tensions. In the context ...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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🗓️The deadline is extended to 17 November 5pm EST.

🗓️If you haven’t yet submitted your abstract check out the detailsand be a part of #IAHRE2026

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November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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⭐️NEW article by @doclazar.bsky.social exploring how #GlobalCitizenshipEd might be incorporated into US curricula
⭐️Special Issue #GCE & #HRE

🆓Access International Association for Human Rights Education members

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Cultivating global citizens: merging human rights and multicultural education into a global citizenship curriculum in the U.S
This article explores the integration of Global Citizenship Education (GCE), Multicultural Education (MCE), and Human Rights Education (HRE) to address global challenges and foster inclusive, equit...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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We are delighted to publish this article by @yuliasnesterova.bsky.social & colleagues @uofglasgow.bsky.social examining #HumanRights in #GlobalCitizenshipEd using 2 case studies:

#IDPs in #Azerbaijan

#Indigenous people in Taiwan

#OpenAccess
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Five pillars of transformative global citizenship education: toward integration of the rights of Indigenous Peoples and internally displaced peoples
This conceptual paper proposes a Global Citizenship Education (GCE) framework that is inclusive and supportive of the rights of two of the most marginalised communities: Indigenous Peoples and refu...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Louise Phillips University of #Queensland & colleagues discuss research with #Australian children & youth
They insist on #GlobalCitienshipEducation that recognises their rights & equips them to take action in causes they care about
#GCE #literacies
NEW #OpenAccess article
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Accessing, understanding, inquiring into and enacting human rights as central to global citizenship education literacies in Australia
Human rights education (HRE) has international mandates and is often encompassed in global citizenship education. In response to this context and young people’s clarion call for climate action, we ...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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How do we teach difficult history & avoid ethnonationalism when facing the past?
Boeun Cha #Yonsei University Seoul & Jing Williams University of South Dakota discuss case of #ComfortWomen #HistoryEd
#GCE & #HRE special issue @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh
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Empowering global citizens beyond nationalism: teaching the ‘comfort women’ history through human rights education in South Korea
This qualitative case study examines how human rights education (HRE) is integrated into teaching the history of Japanese military ‘comfort women’ in South Korea to empower students as global citiz...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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📣 Published! It has been a wonderful experience to guest edit this Special Issue of Human Rights Education Review with Dr Jia Ying Neoh on global citizenship education #gce & human rights education #hre Innovative scholarship expanding concepts in both fields www.tandfonline.com/toc/rhre20/c...
Human Rights Education Review
Global Citizenship Education and Human Rights. Volume 8, Issue 3 of Human Rights Education Review
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November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Check out this fabulous new Special Issue with 12 new papers
drcarolineferguson.bsky.social Caroline Ferguson @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social · Nov 5
New Special Issue published! @hrer.bsky.social Global citizenship education and human rights. What are the connections? Outstanding articles that expand concepts of GCE & HRE. Read our editorial here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Interrogating the intersections of global citizenship and human rights education
Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 8, No. 3, 2025)
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November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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We invite our authors, reviewers and readers to join us at #IAHRE2026
You have until 17 November to submit an abstract in response to the CfP
Human Rights Education Review is the official journal of IAHRE
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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HRER is delighted to announce Special Issue 8(3) Global Citizenship Education & Human Rights
12 articles on #GCE & #HRE from
#Azerbaijan #Australia #China #SouthKorea #SriLanka #Pakistan #UK #USA
🎉Congratulations Guest Editors @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh doi.org/10.1080/2535...
Interrogating the intersections of global citizenship and human rights education
Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 8, No. 3, 2025)
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November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM