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Writer, scholar, speaker Professor @universityofleeds.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social Co-chair: global-iahre.org #whereareyoufromnowhereareureallyfrom #nordicperspectivesonhumanrightsed #humanrightsandschooling
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HRER authors @beategold.bsky.social & Ragnhild Lindahl Torstensen heading to Trondheim today to present latest #OpenAccess article Pornography & #HumanRights Education doi.org/10.1080/2535...

Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education See what @beategold.bsky.social & I set out to do www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC5G...

Thanks to @aoifenolan.bsky.social @uon-hrlc.bsky.social & all who contributed to today’s excellent conference ‘Human Rights Under Pressure’ Joined online at last minute due to train chaos but found it rewarding Glad that @hrer.bsky.social could learn from this So glad it was open to all! 🙏🏼

✅We’re extending abstracts deadline: 14 March 2025 ✅We’ve interesting abstracts from Chile Columbia Brazil Spain Italy USA ✅We’d love more from these & other LA countries ✅Do share widely @mccowan.bsky.social @profgerber.bsky.social @rkshanks.bsky.social @suzanneegan.bsky.social #EduSky #LawSky

UN calls for stronger measures to combat intimidation of migrants by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland

🎉Good to see this review of my book ‘Where are you from? No, where are you really from?’ in Human Rights Education Review 🙂Hope it will contribute to a more in-depth discussion of the colonial past amongst educators @hrer.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pupils at Small Heath Leadership Academy in Birmingham told us how the UK Government can tackle child poverty. With the UK Government's Child Poverty Strategy due this spring, what do you think they should do to tackle child poverty?

After Leicestershire Police removed details of a deal with the controversial US spy-tech firm, three quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir. New investigation by @mc00.bsky.social 🔍 goodlaw.social/3svh

Have you got your tickets yet? 70 now reserved so act now to avoid joining the waiting list! www.tickettailor.com/events/liter... I’ll be conversing with Melanie Abrahams FRSA FRSL on my book, #migration & #colonialism

Check out HRER’s most recent Special Issue on #HRE & Language Education @ele-uni-ms.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social @bilingualismloncen.bsky.social @isbilingualism.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rhre20/c...

“Norwegian Romance” 🎨 #landscape #photography #mountains #river #forest #nature #norway

Teachers - Check out this opportunity! onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/conferences-...

Have just watched Walter Salles’s film A timely and chilling reminder of what can happen when democracy and democratic institutions fail and a country descends into military rule images.app.goo.gl/Qv4NRZxb9U9B...

Please share widely! HRER Special Issue on #HumanRights Education in #LatinAmerica Abstracts are due 3 March 2025 Full papers 31 August 2025

www.tickettailor.com/events/liter... Delighted to be in conversation with Melanie Abrahams at Literary Leicester on Thursday 20 March Discussing #migration, #colonialism & much more Reserve your place now!

Absolutely right: Farage’s moment of reckoning: he can choose British voters – or Putin and Trump www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@rebeccaromney.com on the many literary afterlives of Jane Austen, from Edith Wharton to PD James.

✅To all interested in #HumanRights Education 2 important new articles by @suzanneegan.bsky.social ✅Just published @hrer.bsky.social and British Journal of Educational ✅Fresh analysis of international law in teachers & children education ✅Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎉Celebrating #2 in HRER’s all-time most cited articles by Walter Parker University of Washington 🎉His discussion of #HRE ‘s ‘curriculum problem’ has sparked off interesting debate 🎉Do check it and join the debate! 🎉We welcome further contributions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We now move to the top 3 all-time most cited HRER articles At #3 is @beategold.bsky.social study of #ChilrRights & teacher responsibilities An empirical study examining teachers’ practices & the challenge of overcoming the in talking about the subject www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✅HRER is now more visible globally ✅So I highlight important research that Kjersti Draugedalen has done on ways teachers can be #HumanRights defenders & prevent child sexual abuse ✅It’s available #OpenAccess & free to download ✅Do check it out www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

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At #5 in our all-time most cited articles is Knut Vesterdal’s analysis of the relationship between foreign policy, national identity and #HumanRights Education in #Norway www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⭐️Announcing Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education (2025) edited with @beategold.bsky.social ⭐️includes research from #Finland #Denmark #Iceland #Sweden #Norway ⭐️ a number of #OpenAccess chapters #HRE www.routledge.com/Nordic-Persp...

⭐️Another reason to publish your work in Human Rights Education Review www.tandfonline.com/journals/rhr... ⭐️We work hard to get peer reviewers’ back to authors in a timely fashion- so you can publish your research as promptly as possible, as @suzanneegan.bsky.social experienced

"These efforts test the boundaries of the constitution’s establishment clause, reversing a century of civil rights victories in public schools, and have the potential to fundamentally alter the way American children learn – and what they learn about."

#6 in HRER’s all-time most cited articles is by @citizenlj.bsky.social @annaliddle.bsky.social & @helenyoung.bsky.social - an analysis of the knowledge students drew on to discuss rights-based dilemmas and the implications for #HumanRights Education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is an accessible account of teachers’ work in #HumanRights Education in four European states by a veteran comparative education researcher that other #teachers might build on to develop their own practice #OpenAccess

Delighted to announce this free event! @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social & I will talk about the approach and themes of our book Beyond the Secret Garden & Lara Choksey & Mehrunissa Shah have agreed to act as respondents. UCL, 17 March 2025, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

💚Do see ‘Staying Mum’ Kosai #SEKINE’s brilliant film about family relationships, truth, memory, now in #JapanFoundation film festival across UK 💚Wonderful to hear director Kosai #SEKINE speak @ #Phoenix #Leicester 💚Wonderful sensitive actors Anne #WATANABE Eiji #OKUDA child actor Toma NAKASU & cast

Hey, check your local libraries for free access to news sources that you might otherwise have to pay for. Many libraries offer online access and you can even copy article links and share them. 👍

“They want to make us afraid. Not just us, they want to send a message to all Palestinian people,” Morad Muna said. “We are now going to reopen both branches of the bookshop. I think this is the best reaction that we can do to such a situation.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

At #8 in HRER’s countdown of all time most cited articles is this piece by PRIO’s Marta Bivand Erdal & Mette Stromso on youth participation rights & the engagement of diverse students in co-constructing national belonging with their teachers. A key item to re-read in divisive times

‘“It was a comprehensive curriculum,” my father told me of the tent school my family set up. My aunt taught there too. There were drawing and painting classes as well as maths and science.’ Malaka Shwaikh on the preservation of education in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

Continuing our countdown of HRER’s most cited articles at #9 is Anne Becker’s 2021 discussion of the principles, assumptions and rules of knowing in conversations about #HumanRights Education. Check it out- it’s available #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Register now for our upcoming Annual Conference on 'Human Rights under Pressure' with Keynote Speakers Baroness Shami Chakrabarti & Prof Conor Gearty & Panelists @tessakhan.bsky.social, @aoifenolan.bsky.social, Mando Rachovitsa & Wanda Wyporska. 🗓️ 5 March 2025 📌 Nottingham & Online 🔗 bit.ly/4aN6MCe

As Editor, I’m really excited about this initiative, and really looking forward to working closely with Melina Porto & Leonel Pérez Expósito Do share this opportunity with colleagues working on human rights-based education in the region

Signs of Spring in #UniversityofLeicester botanical garden today The best was the sound of #birdsong

S𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓, 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 (𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐑) 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 @tandfresearch.bsky.social 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 International Association of Human Rights Education (IAHRE). w𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥!

💚Really looking forward to speaking at Literary Leicester 💚I’ll be talking about my book ‘Where are you from? No, where are you really from?’ + book signing 💚Attenborough Arts Centre Thurs 20 March 2-3pm 💚All welcome- a free festival, but booking advised www.tickettailor.com/events/liter...

There’s no better time than now to publish with #HumanRights Education Review!

Trump adds further ignominy to his shameful return to power. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02... via @NYTimes

🎉The editors of Human Rights Education Review are delighted to announce that the journal is now published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social 🎉Check out our extensive archive, latest articles & book reviews here www.tandfonline.com/loi/rhre20

Is this real? Knock Airport 💚

Bank holiday Monday in Bundoran, Co Donegal and I am told I am blessed to have the beach and promenade to myself!