Call for Book Chapter Abstracts on Country/Regional Case Studies | Human Rights Education Handbook
500 Words
Due January 16, 2026
Title: Handbook of Human Rights Education, De Gruyter Press.
Editors: S. Garnett Russell and Sandra Sirota, equal co-editors
Our proposed handbook will provide an important and timely general overview of the main topics and debates within the field of human rights education, while also providing examples of specific human rights education issues from diverse cases around the world. It will be geared towards undergraduate and graduate students, practitioners, policy makers, and a general audience.
In light of the multidisciplinary nature of human rights education, the book will be of relevance to scholars and students across different fields including international and comparative education, human rights education, teacher education and certification courses, human rights, sociology of human rights, social work, and also areas related to civic education and education and migration.
The draft outline for the handbook is as follows:
- Introduction
- Defining HRE/the emergence/models of HRE
- HRE Across Education
- Related Areas
- Country/Regional Case Studies
- Critiques/Alternative Approaches/Future Directions
- Conclusions
We invite scholars and practitioners who are involved in human rights education to submit abstracts for this edited handbook on human rights education. We are seeking contributions for Section 5 on human rights education across different country case studies and regions.
The deadline to submit abstracts is January 16, 2026. The word limit is 500 words.
We will notify authors if your abstract has been accepted by February 2, 2026.
Full chapter submissions (6,000 words, APA style) are due by June 1, 2026 and will be peer reviewed by other contributors. In that spirit, we ask that authors peer review another chapter as well.
Please submit your abstract through this form.
HRE USA 