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Difference as Privilege: Identity, Citizenship and the Recontextualisation of Human Rights in Japan's Social Studies Curriculum

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Meyer, Thomas George – Critical Studies in Education, 2020

While global human rights knowledge has become a central facet of curricula used to shape multicultural societies and develop cosmopolitan citizenry, such knowledge is shaped by sociopolitical context. Japan has a long history of incorporating human rights concepts into its citizenship curriculum; however, this curriculum is produced in a…

Descriptors: Civil Rights, Knowledge Level, Secondary School Students, National Curriculum