Episode 14: Felisa Tibbitts, Part Two
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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.
Topics discussed:
- Issues-based education and HRE
- Human Rights Education Associates
- Role of the internet in fostering HRE
- Challenge of engaging local and universal issues in HRE
- Relationship of HRE to social justice scholarship and issues
- Setbacks for human rights discourse in South Africa
- Connecting HRE to social problems via disciplinary approaches
- Future trends in HRE
- HRE and the Ukraine War
Full topic listing available for PDF download HERE.
Introduction and Closing Music Credit: “Awakening-Spring” by Ketsa, from the Album Night Vision. Available at the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/night-vision/awakening-spring/
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