Episode 36 : Glenn Mitoma part one

Episode 36 : Glenn Mitoma part one

Washington, DC: HRE USA, 2024

English

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Human Rights Education Now! Podcasts; Season 2, Episode 36

In Episode 36, Glenn Mitoma shares the origins of his interest in human rights and human rights education (HRE) and his work at the University of Connecticut. He describes partnership programs between the university and K-12 education and professional development programs in HRE for K-12 educators and their students. Glenn discusses challenges in forging partnerships within a university setting and hurdles and opportunities for HRE at Columbia University and other higher education institutions, and his thoughts on the creation of the University and College Consortium for HRE. Glenn highlights what he sees as a growing interest among students in programs that advance justice and the barriers constraining non-traditional programs in HRE. Glenn explains the relationships between higher education and popular education in HRE, in addition to popular and community education connections to transformative HRE. Glenn examines the connections between HRE and active K-12 citizenship education and ideas around revisiting history education and the concept of shared memory using an HRE lens. Glenn shares views on U.S. history as part of a global, transnational process and efforts at censoring history and social studies instruction.

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