Human Rights Education Now! Episodes 36 & 37 Live with Glenn Mitoma
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Human Rights Education Now! Episodes 36 & 37 with Glenn Mitoma are live!
Glenn Mitoma is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Human Rights and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University. His research and teaching focus on the history of human rights and human rights education, with current projects on the mid-20th century history of human rights education. He has served on the Connecticut State Advisory Committee on Genocide and Holocaust Education and the Executive Committee for Human Rights Educators USA, and was a founding member of both the Connecticut Human Rights Partnership and the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education. His publications include: Preparing Educators, Advocates, and Allies: Teacher Education in the HRE Movement and Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power
In Episode 36, Glenn Mitoma shares the origins of his interest in human rights and human rights education (HRE) and his work at the University of Connecticut. Next, he describes partnership programs between the university and K-12 education, as well as professional development programs in HRE for K-12 educators and their students. Glenn then discusses challenges in forging partnerships within a university setting, as well as the hurdles and opportunities for HRE at Columbia University and other higher education institutions, and his thoughts on the creation of the University and College Consortium for HRE. Glenn highlights what he sees as a growing interest among students in programs that advance justice and the barriers constraining non-traditional programs in HRE. Later, Glenn expounds upon the relationships between higher education and popular education in HRE, in addition to popular and community education connections to transformative HRE. Glenn then examines the connections between HRE and active K-12 citizenship education, as well as ideas around revisiting history education and the concept of shared memory using an HRE lens. Lastly, Glenn illuminates his views on U.S. history as part of a global, transnational process, along with efforts at censoring history and social studies instruction.
In Episode 37, Glenn Mitoma discusses the relationships between HRE and social justice, as well as his thoughts on social justice as a dynamic force advancing human rights in the pursuit of justice. Next, he shares his thoughts on the Indigenous rights movement as a force for collective rights. Glenn also describes the use of CRC as a pathway to support childrens’ rights, including ideas for engaging youth voices in decision making about education. He then elaborates on HRE and the challenge of authoritarianism and confronting leaders and others who reject universal human rights. Later, he shares his views on education as a force for human rights, and the significance of mobilizing the broader public in defense of human rights and education writ large. Glenn then underlines the importance of building alliances between HRE and educators from K-university as a way to challenge inequality and support academic freedom. He shares his role models who inspired his HRE work, such as Miles Horton and Hannah Arendt. He recommends advancing HRE in the U.S. by establishing a national truth commission regarding human rights violations and genocide against Indigenous Peoples along with constructing a new historical memory through an open, democratic forum, citing the California Reparations Task Force as an example.
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