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Woolley, Isolde – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
The title incorporates the assumption that the "human" in education is being threatened by certain processes. The guiding questions are: What are these processes and what constitutes the "human" in education? Which activities characteristically performed by human beings are so central that they seem definitive of a life that is truly human and…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Human Dignity, Self Determination, Personal Autonomy
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Giesinger, Johannes – Educational Theory, 2012
In this essay, Johannes Giesinger discusses the educational significance of Immanuel Kant's conception of human dignity. According to Kant, Giesinger claims, children can and should be educated for dignity: on the one hand, children realize their dignity by developing the capacity for moral autonomy; on the other hand, this capacity can only…
Descriptors: Ethics, Human Dignity, Educational Philosophy, Moral Development
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Espinoza, Manuel Luis; Vossoughi, Shirin – Harvard Educational Review, 2014
What are the origins of educational rights? In this essay, Espinoza and Vossoughi assert that educational rights are "produced," "affirmed," and "negated" not only through legislative and legal channels but also through an evolving spectrum of educational activities embedded in everyday life. Thus, they argue that the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Educational Experience, African American Education, Learning
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Semenog, Olena – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2014
The values of human labor and teacher's work have been reflected on the basis of lexicographical sources and research reflections of famous Ukrainian and Polish pedagogues, such as T. Novatskiy, N. Nychkalo, Pope Paul II, G. Skovoroda, Z. Vyatrovskiy, I. Zyazyun. Among the existing values presented in lexicographical sources the following…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Human Capital, Teaching (Occupation)
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Becker, Anne; de Wet, Annamagriet; van Vollenhoven, Willie – South African Journal of Education, 2015
The twentieth century has been characterised by the proliferation of human rights in the discursive practices of the United Nations (Baxi, 1997). In this article, we explore the continual process of rights-based education towards transformative action, and an open and democratic society, as dependent upon the facilitation of human rights literacy…
Descriptors: Human Dignity, Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Literacy
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Shapira-Lishchinsky, Orly; Glanz, Jeffrey; Shaer, Anat – Religious Education, 2016
This study attempts to explore Israeli and American teachers' perceptions based on their ethical dilemmas in Jewish schools. A cross-national study was undertaken in Jewish schools, examining fifty teachers from Israel and fifty-one teachers from the United States. Designed with team-based simulations, this study revealed strong similarities…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Judaism, Teacher Attitudes, Ethics
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Magee, Rhonda V. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
In this chapter, the author uses the phrase "contemplative practices" to encompass an array of personal and pedagogical methods that combine training in awareness and first-person epistemological approaches to knowing and being in the world. These practices include mindfulness meditation (Magee 2011). The gradual inclusion of mindfulness…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Metacognition, Attention, Lawyers
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Duvie, Adanma Nnekwu; Modebelu, Melody Ndidi – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2014
This paper discusses dehumanizing communication reified among undergraduates and lecturers. Dehumanization is the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities and denial of humanness to others. On the other hand, communication is human interaction and learning. Communication becomes rude when it is deliberately directed resulting…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Interpersonal Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Peer Relationship
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Vorhaus, John – London Review of Education, 2014
Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares: "Everyone has the right to education." This implies that the right to education and training applies to all persons, including all persons in prison. This position is considered here from a philosophical point of view and it will receive some support. Yet it is not obvious…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Civil Rights, Access to Education, Role of Education
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Noroozi, Omid, Ed.; Sahin, Ismail, Ed. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
Education, science, and technology disciplines are closely and extensively connected in all formats and levels. The outbreak of COVID-19 has further squeezed this interconnection where the delivery of education in different scientific fields of studies at all education levels is almost impossible without the presence of technology. Today, there is…
Descriptors: Education, Sciences, Technology, COVID-19
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Holsinger, Ellen S. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights establishes that all people, simply because they are human, enjoy the right to freedom of religion and that governments have the obligation to ensure the protection of that right. Yet we witness a world increasingly divided by religious tradition. The failures of many governments to ensure…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, International Law, Religion, Freedom
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Cobb, Jessica S. – Sociology of Education, 2017
This paper examines how public school teachers take up, modify, or resist the dominant ideology of color-blind racism. This examination is based on in-depth interviews with 60 teachers at three segregated schools: one was race/class privileged and two were disadvantaged. Inductive coding revealed that teachers at each school articulated a shared…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Racial Attitudes, Ideology
Weissglass, Julian – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Young people without exception always deserve complete respect. They would deserve complete respect even if there were no societal benefits. There are, however, benefits to society. If people are respected as thinkers when they are young, they will think well as adults. Therefore, as a group, human beings will be more effective in meeting the many…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories, Listening, Teacher Student Relationship
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Pennington, Robert; Courtade, Ginevra; Jones Ault, Melinda; Delano, Monica – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2016
Despite encouraging changes in the expectations of programming for persons with moderate to severe intellectual disability (MSD), data suggest that programs for these individuals are still lacking in several critical areas. Building administrators play a key role in promoting high quality programs for students with MSD within local schools but may…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Moderate Intellectual Disability, Severe Intellectual Disability, Administrator Role
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East, Linda; Stokes, Rebecca; Walker, Melanie – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
In times of economic uncertainty, questions of the purpose and value of higher education come to the fore. Such questions have particular relevance when directed towards the preparation of professionally qualified graduates who might be expected to contribute to the public good. However, definitions of the public good are contested and the role of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Professional Education, Individual Development
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