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Audrey Osler's new book brings astonishing depth, a global scope, a critical perspective, and the commanding authority of an international scholar who had studied and participated in the struggle for human rights across many years and a variety of local contexts."" - Theory & Research in Social Education ""Osler's book is both aspirational and highly practical, offering an ethical framework as well as solid concrete advice for education in a heterogeneous democracy."" - Human Rights Quarterly ""Uses personal narratives to illustrate nuances of human rights education. Osler's stance is that human rights work is not primarily about international politics, [but] grounded in local and personal contexts."" - Citizenship Teaching & Learning ""Osler calls on us to realize the struggle for human rights and act in a way that supports them through human rights education. What may very well be needed, she claims, is a renewed and energized focus on civic learning and education for cosmopolitan citizenship, that informs and acts on the local, national and global contexts."" - Teachers College Record

Osler's book provides an important means for reforming discourses and schools to support the development of democratic, socially just, and cosmopolitan communities. Osler wrote, 'In practice, a right is only a right if people know about it and if they are prepared to struggle for it' (p. 44, emphasis in original). This struggle is not an abstract principle that students discuss but an on- the- ground struggle that every community can identify as a means toward social justice within their community. --Democracy & Education Osler's book equips educators with a historical and theoretical foundation along with a toolkit to help make HRE practical, accessible, and engaging for all learners. --International Journal of Human Rights Education In her timely and relevant book, Human Rights and Schooling: An Ethical Framework for Teaching for Social Justice, Audrey Osler offers us a theoretically grounded, yet practical way to address social justice through human rights education (HRE) in our classrooms and beyond. --Teachers College Record Audrey Osler's new book brings astonishing depth, a global scope, a critical perspective, and the commanding authority of an international scholar who had studied and participated in the struggle for human rights across many years and a variety of local contexts. --Theory & Research in Social Education One of the salient points made in Human Rights and Schooling is that human rights is not about the other in distant lands but it is about all of us and the everyday lives of students and teachers. Osler also provides teachers and students with a legal and moral framework that can be used to guide the analysis of human rights issues in classroom discussions and deliberations. --SirReadaLot.org This book is a testament to the many ways Osler has actively engaged in education for, about, and on, human rights, and has passionately advocated education for social justice. The book demonstrates not only the diversity within the field, but also the diversity of projects across Osler's professional career and adds to the growing literature at the intersection of HRE and education for multicultural or cosmopolitan citizenship. I recommend it to those looking to deepen their understandings about the current debates facing the field of HRE. --International Journal of Children's Rights Audrey Osler's new book, Human Rights and Schooling, explores the possibilities of education as a vehicle for building freedom, justice and peace at home and throughout the world. --London Review of Education

Audrey Osler's new book brings astonishing depth, a global scope, a critical perspective, and the commanding authority of an international scholar who had studied and participated in the struggle for human rights across many years and a variety of local contexts. - Theory & Research in Social Education Osler's book is both aspirational and highly practical, offering an ethical framework as well as solid concrete advice for education in a heterogeneous democracy. - Human Rights Quarterly Uses personal narratives to illustrate nuances of human rights education. Osler's stance is that human rights work is not primarily about international politics, [but] grounded in local and personal contexts. - Citizenship Teaching & Learning Osler calls on us to realize the struggle for human rights and act in a way that supports them through human rights education. What may very well be needed, she claims, is a renewed and energized focus on civic learning and education for cosmopolitan citizenship, that informs and acts on the local, national and global contexts. - Teachers College Record

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Audrey Osler is professor of education at the University of South East Norway and at the University of Leeds, UK where she was founding director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education (CCHRE).

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