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Author Bio

Monisha Bajaj (ORCID: 0000-0002-5011-2639) is Professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco as well as a Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. She is the editor and author of eight books and numerous articles on issues of peace, human rights, migration, racial justice, and education. 

David Andrew Tow (ORCID: 0000-0002-7215-6480) teaches English and social science at Terra Linda High School in San Rafael, California. He is also a doctoral candidate in International and Multicultural Education with an emphasis in Human Rights Education at the University of San Francisco, where his research focuses on school evaluation and human rights.

Abstract

This article discusses the field of Human Rights Education (HRE) and its intersections with the field of Global Citizenship Education (GCE), both now more than 60 years into their existence as discourse and practice communities. We trace the emergence of transformative, critical, and decolonial forms of HRE and offer a new conceptual framework for Rooted HRE. Rooted HRE offers a transformative approach to fostering critical global citizenship (CGC) by embedding global frameworks within the immediacy of local struggles. It draws on critical perspectives of global citizenship (Andreotti, 2011; Gaudelli, 2016), Transformative Human Rights Education (THRED) (Bajaj et al., 2016), and transnational belonging (Dyrness, 2021). We also offer student perspectives to frame the principles of Rooted HRE. This article illuminates how rootedness in specific social, political, and environmental contexts enables learners to connect their immediate realities to global and unequal systems of power, equity, and justice.

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