Human Rights Education in Argentina: Notes on the process of incorporating human rights in educational contexts

Authors

  • Mónica Fernández Monica Fernandez is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at UNLa and holds a Master's degree in Human Rights from UNLP (thesis entitled "Pedagogical Methods and Educational Practices of Human Rights Education"), Costa Rica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15359/rldh.27-2.10

Keywords:

Education, Human Rights, Citizenshi, Politics

Abstract

This work provides a brief description of the various political and economic contexts that enabled the incorporation of human rights in different Argentine institutions, starting with informal education and eventually coming to form part of the curricula at all educational levels. Its purpose is to visualize how human rights education developed and which spheres of the Argentine culture drove and demanded the need for human rights and human rights education. Since one of the purposes of education is to train citizens, this article intends to show that the practice of human rights is a way of exercising citizenship and that the educational sphere is the proper context for human rights to gain respect in diverse cultural practices.

Author Biography

Mónica Fernández, Monica Fernandez is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at UNLa and holds a Master's degree in Human Rights from UNLP (thesis entitled "Pedagogical Methods and Educational Practices of Human Rights Education")

Professor and researcher with the Department of Social Sciences; member of the research program Discursos, prácticas e instituciones educativas; Director of the research program Políticas Públicas de Inclusión Social, formación ético-política de la comunidad UNQ y Educación en Derechos Humanos; Monica Fernandez is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at UNLa and holds a Master's degree in Human Rights from UNLP (thesis entitled "Pedagogical Methods and Educational Practices of Human Rights Education"); an Education Licensure from UNQ; and a Diploma in Social Sciences from UNQ. Former researcher for the program Escuela, Diferencia e Inclusión; Director of the Human Rights Education Academic Network "RedLATEDH" (HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION LATIN AMERICAN NETWORK) financed by the University Policy Secretariat of Argentina's Ministry of Education. Fernandez has been a Cabinet advisor for the Undersecretariat of Human Rights of the Secretariat of Human Rights of Argentina's Ministry of Justice and Human Rights; Director of the CReCER project (Creando Redes Ciudadanas, Educativas y Responsables) and a member of the project Derechos de Todas y Todos. Triple framework: access, knowledge management and acknowledgment - University Extension Secretary's Office (UNQ); member of the PICT project team: Ética del reconocimiento y derechos humanos en la práctica educativa. Author of La educación en derechos humanos en la Argentina (2013), several specialized articles and several chapters in books. Fernandez has organized (in collaboration) several congresses and roundtable discussions (both national and international) related to human rights and education and has been awarded several national and international scholarships.

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2017-01-04

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Human Rights Education in Argentina: Notes on the process of incorporating human rights in educational contexts. (2017). Revista Latinoamericana De Derechos Humanos, 27(2), 215-237. https://doi.org/10.15359/rldh.27-2.10

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Human Rights Education in Argentina: Notes on the process of incorporating human rights in educational contexts. (2017). Revista Latinoamericana De Derechos Humanos, 27(2), 215-237. https://doi.org/10.15359/rldh.27-2.10