Stealth Radicalism: Teaching Refugee Rights as Human Rights

In this essay, I describe a Human Rights course in which I focused on refugee rights through a service-learning project with a refugee resettlement agency. I will summarize my own approach to “radical teaching,” my objectives for the course, the course itself, and the impact of the course on the stu...

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Main Author: Steven Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2016-02-01
Series:Radical Teacher
Online Access:http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/article/view/258
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description In this essay, I describe a Human Rights course in which I focused on refugee rights through a service-learning project with a refugee resettlement agency. I will summarize my own approach to “radical teaching,” my objectives for the course, the course itself, and the impact of the course on the students. Ideally, I would describe the impact on the refugees with whom the students interacted, but I was not able to collect narratives in that regard.
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spelling doaj.art-50005e1ff3664d1dbeea0ea86176d52a2022-12-22T02:33:22ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghRadical Teacher1941-08322016-02-011040627210.5195/rt.2016.258155Stealth Radicalism: Teaching Refugee Rights as Human RightsSteven Jones0Georgia College and State UniversityIn this essay, I describe a Human Rights course in which I focused on refugee rights through a service-learning project with a refugee resettlement agency. I will summarize my own approach to “radical teaching,” my objectives for the course, the course itself, and the impact of the course on the students. Ideally, I would describe the impact on the refugees with whom the students interacted, but I was not able to collect narratives in that regard.http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/article/view/258
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