This book offers research-based models of exemplary practice for educators at all grade levels, from primary school to university, who want to integrate human rights education into their classrooms. It includes ten examples of projects that have been effectively implemented in classrooms: two from elementary school, two from middle school, three from high school, two from community college, and one from a university. Each model discusses the scope of the project, its rationale, students' response to the content and pedagogy, challenges or controversies that arose, and their resolution. Unique in integrating theory and practice and in addressing human rights issues with special relevance for communities of color in the US, this book provides indispensable guidance for those studying and teaching human rights.

Andrea McEvoy Spero is the former Director of Education at The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, USA. Susan Roberta Katzis Professor of International and Multicultural Education and Human Rights Education at the University of San Francisco, USA.  

Foreword; Olga Talamante PART I: OVERVIEW OF HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION 1. Building a Human Rights Education Movement in the United States; Felisa Tibbitts 2. The Challenges and Triumphs of Teaching for Human Rights in U.S. Schools; Susan Roberta Katz and Andrea McEvoy Spero PART II: PEDAGOGICAL TOOLS 3. Each One, Teach One: The History and Legacy of the Black Panther Party for an Elementary School Audience; Jessie Blundell 4. The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living: Human Rights Education in the Elementary Classroom; Erin Brennan 5. Bringing to Life Human Rights Education in the Science Classroom; Annie Adamian 6. Challenging Islamophobia in the Middle School Classroom: Using Critical Media Literacy to Teach Human Rights; Kelly Delaney 7. Tout Moun Se Moun "Every Person Is a Human Being": Understanding the Struggle for Human Rights in Haiti; Victoria Isabel Duran 8. Know Your Rights: Understanding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Jacqueline Fix and Puja Kumar Clifford 9. Teaching The Crucible through Human Rights; Barbara J. Arduini 10. Reframing a Community College Social Problems Class through a Human Rights Perspective; Lindsay Padilla 11. Teaching and Learning Asian American Leadership: A Human Rights Framework; Melissa Canlas 12. Female Genital Mutilation: A Pedagogical Tool To Explore Global Violence Against Women; Onllwyn Cavan Dixon Afterword: Will Human Rights Be Decolonizing?; K. Wayne Yang