Episode 14 : Felisa Tibbitts part two

Episode 14 : Felisa Tibbitts part two

Washington, DC: HRE USA, 2023

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Human Rights Education Now! Podcasts; Season 1, Episode 14

In Episode 14, Felisa discusses issues-based education and HRE and her work in developing Human Rights Education Associates. She then elaborates on the role of the internet in fostering online HRE learning and the challenge of engaging local and universal issues through HRE teaching. She explains the relationship of HRE to social justice scholarship and issues and shares her views on the setbacks for human rights discourse in South Africa as tensions between universalism and particularism on a local level. Felisa then shares her thoughts on the need to revitalize and refresh the field, and the importance of connecting HRE to social problems by using disciplinary approaches from various fields. She describes her perspective on using HRE to create new pathways for research in disciplines and to inform public discourse about social problems and solutions. Felisa then proposes future trends in HRE and elaborates on the progress of human rights, and how human rights are at the forefront of the Ukraine War. Felisa concludes the conversation with her most influential HRE role model along with an inspiring quote.

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