Curricular Unit:			Code:
Human Rights, Education and Development			1153DHED
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	Doctorate	Political and Humanitarian Studies	11 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
		Portuguese/English	143
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
The UC explores the notion of human rights (HR) and human rights educational practices, including legal instruments, educational work by human rights organizations and activists, and ways of defending human rights; a range of civil and political rights, economic and social rights, the rights of women and other minorities and their expression in educational contexts (formal and informal) will also be addressed. Human rights will be treated in their historical process; they will be seen as the governing principle of dialogue and coexistence, and for the promotion of development. Human rights will also be focused on as a means to materialize the cosmopolitan ideals of justice, peace and development. In the end, the students will have acquired the skills for a systematic analysis and understanding of the problems and dimensions of HR and of the associated educational and development processes, as well as for their investigation and communication to the scientific community.
Syllabus:
UL1. Emergence and consolidation of human rights: approaching historicism and defining the dimensions of the various rights 1.1. The fundamental concepts 1.2. The history of Human Rights and its philosophical, legal and political contexts 1.3. Analytical and substantive theories UL2. Multiculturalism and human rights - difficulties in articulation 2.1. Human Rights in the Universalism/Relativism duality 2.2. Human Rights, Democracy and Development 2.3. Human rights and international action UL3 Development, Education and Governance: human rights and NGO action: practical cases 48 / 5000 Resultados de tradução 3.1. Institutions 3.2. community intervention
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
The systematic analysis and understanding of the problems and dimensions of human rights and the educational and development processes attached to them is only possible through to the knowledge of the emergence and consolidation of human rights, and of the legal, institutional and social movements that defend them ( UL1). This issue must also be seen in a context where multiculturalism, as well as the universalism/relativism duality, are addressed in order to understand the difficulties and opportunities facing the articulation of its components (UL2). The points of UL 1 and 2 will be referenced to the institutions/social movements that defend them; their relevance in educational and development processes will be highlighted (UL3). The interconnection of the three ULs will allow students to acquire the skills for a systematic analysis and understanding of the problems and dimensions of human rights and of the educational and development processes attached to them.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
Expository classes and discussion of critical texts; going to conferences and / or lectures that may take place during the school semester. EVALUATION: Written Work (Paper) (70%); Presentation and Discussion of Work (30%)
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The expository method will be suitable for the presentation of historical concepts and processes leading to human rights and their legal and institutional frameworks foreseen in the objectives of the curricular unit. The active method, which allows the debate on several topics related to this curricular unit, are revealed useful for reflecting on the human rights framework in the debate around multiculturalism, the duality / tension between universalism and relativism and also the role and action of social movements and NGOs. Both teaching / learning methods promote the development of teaching skills. theoretical conceptualization, identification of historical processes in their central factors and ability to analyze and evaluate real situations. This combination is interconnected with the objective of allowing students to acquire the necessary skills for a systematic analysis and understanding of the problems and dimensions of human rights and of the educational and development processes assigned to them, as well as for their investigation and communication to the public. scientific community.
Reading:
Bantekas, I., & Oette, L. (2020). International Human Rights Law and Practice (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Burnell, P, Rakner & Randall, V. (2017), Politics in the developing world. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Donnelly, J. & Whelan, D. (2020), International Human Rights, Nova York: Routledge. Hannum, H. (2019), Rescuing Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Mertens, T. (2020), A Philosophical Introduction to Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Moyn, Samuel (2019), Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World. Harvard: Harvard College.