Includes bibliographical references and index.

Symbol and substance : human rights education as an emergent global institution / Susan Garnett Russell and David F. Suørez -- Emotions, critical pedagogy, and human rights education / Michalinos Zembylas -- Evolution of human rights education models / Felisa L. Tibbitts -- The right to human rights education : conceptual perspectives / Peter G. Kirchschlaeger -- Global research in human rights education -- Challenges and complexity in human rights education : teachers' understandings of democratic participation and gender equity in post-conflict Kurdistan, Iraq / Audrey Osler and Chalank Yahya -- Human rights education in postcolonial India / Monisha Bajaj and Rachel Wah -- Politics, power, and protest : rights-based education policy and the limits of human rights education / Sam Mejias -- Contentious human rights education : the case of professional development programs on sexual orientation and gender identity/based refuge protection / Oren Pizmony-Levy ad Megan Jensen -- Historicizing critical educational praxis : human rights framework for justice-oriented teaching / Melissa L. Gibson and Carl A. Grant / Expanding the aspirational map : interactive learning and human rights in Tostan's community empowerment program / Beniamino Cislaghi, Diane Gillespie, and Gerald Mackie -- Human rights education's role in peacebuilding : lessons from the field / Tracey Holland and J. Paul Martin -- Leveraging diversity to become a global citizen : lessons for human rights education / Carol Anne Spreen and Chrissie Monaghan.