Human Rights Education Review invites submissions for a Special Issue on the intersection of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and Human Rights Education (HRE), considering the role that HRE can play, in partnership with GCE, to enable hopeful futures. We welcome conceptual and empirical studies that explore the connections between human rights and global citizenship and expect this HRER Special Issue to uncover ways in which GCE founded in human rights is conceptualised and negotiated in a range of international contexts. In other words, it aims to explore ways are HRE and GCE interconnected, or not, within diverse contexts.
GCE responds to globalisation in multiple ways, informed by political and historical forces. Education for global citizenship founded in human rights is based on a cosmopolitan vision of our common humanity (Osler, 2011; Osler & Starkey, 2003; 2018). Yet the prevailing neoliberal environment and powerful interests of the Global North have frequently shaped global citizenship education as instrumental competencies for competition (Andreotti, 2006; Robertson, 2021). The proliferation of narrow expressions of GCE highlight the need for more meaningful and critical approaches (Ferguson & Brett, 2023; Smith & Neoh, 2023). Closer integration of GCE and HRE may confront the decontextualised limitations placed on both concepts (Rapoport, 2021). Transformative human rights also show potential for bringing empathy and compassion to citizenship education (von Berg, 2023). Exploring and expanding educational possibilities on rights, diversity and belonging may result in more inclusive global education agendas.
If you would like to make a submission in response to the Call for Papers send an extended abstract of no more than 300 words to Human Rights Education Review Managing Editor Kalpani Dambagolla to kalpanidambagolla@gmail.com by 1 July 2024. Your abstract should include a short list of indicative literature on which you expect to draw, from the fields of both GCE and HRE. Please ensure you use the subject line HRER: Global citizenship and human rights education in your email. You will hear back from us by 12 July 2024. All invited manuscripts will be subject to double-blind peer review. For invited papers for this special issue, submission of the full paper is due through the journal platform by 13 January 2025. We expect to publish this Special Issue as Volume 8 (3) 2025.
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