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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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✔️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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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
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
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
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
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
✔️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
global-iahre.org/get-involved/
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…
global-iahre.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
⭐️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
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November 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
⭐️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
🗓️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
⭐️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

@drcarolineferguson.bsky.social
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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
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
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
Check out this fabulous new Special Issue with 12 new papers
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
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
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
⭐️IAHRE 2026 has just extended the deadline for abstract submissions for the annual conference in May 2026 until 17 November 2025.
⭐️It will take place in the charming town of Muenster, Germany 26-27 May
⭐️We look forward to welcoming you
⭐️Check out the full details here global-iahre.org/research/
3rd International IAHRE Conference 26-27 May 2026 – Münster, Germany
Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World Abstract Deadline Extended until 17 November 2025 Venue: Zfsl An den Speichern 5, 48157 Münster, Germany Conference Announcement and Call fo…
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November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎉Today marks 75th anniversary of European Convention on Human Rights.
🎉Let’s strengthen human rights education- something we all need to protect us
🎉join International Association for Human Rights Education to network & support HRE research
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November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
🎉Great to this important piece -how #HumanRights of Indigenous Peoples & IDPs are incorporated in #GlobalCitizenshipEd
🎉now available #OpenAccess
🎉Congratulations @yuliasnesterova.bsky.social & others @uofglasgow.bsky.social
🎉 @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social Jia Ying Neoh

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October 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Free open access book! Link in comments. #socialstudies #peaceeducation #socialeducation #globaleducation
June 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
📝Quick reminder: if you haven’t yet got your abstract in for #IAHRE2026 in Muenster, Germany, there are just a few days left!
🗓️3 November 2025 is the deadline!
📖Details below from HRER
☑️Check it out now!
✅Check out HRER news for details of the Call for Papers for #IAHRE2026 conference ‘Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World’
✅26-27 May 2025 Muenster, Germany
✅Abstracts due 3 Nov 2025

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October 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
🎉We are delighted to announce that we are strengthening our HRER editorial team

🎉 @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Dr Jia Ying Neoh @sydney.edu.au will be joining us as Associate Editors, along with @beategold.bsky.social from @oslomet.bsky.social

Welcome to you all!
Caroline Ferguson (@drcarolineferguson.bsky.social)
PhD Education. Vice-President the Social & Citizenship Education Association of Australia. Academic at The University of Sydney. Interested in global citizenship education, youth experience of politic...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM