Special Guest event with Dr. Tuija Kasa

The talk is related to addressing marginalisation and inequality through critical human rights education. It draws on interdisciplinary approaches to critical human rights education from conceptual and practical perspectives. It presents recent research on teacher education and human rights education, and reflects perspectives on ethics and global resilience. The event is organized by Frontiers of Arctic and Global Resilience (FRONT) research programme and the Resilience Academy of Oulu (RAO).

Register by 28th of october here.

Abstract

The lecture explores interdisciplinary perspectives on critical human rights education from both conceptual and practical perspectives. The interdisciplinary perspective combines educational sciences, moral philosophy, and human rights law. First, it provides an overview of critical perspectives on human rights amid global crises and introduces forms of critical human rights education, which strive to respond to marginalisation and global inequalities. As an empirical case example, it illustrates the recent research on the realisation of human rights education in Finnish teacher education. From a conceptual perspective, the lecture examines especially the discussion on ethics and moral philosophy, and introduces ideas on the intersection of moral and human rights education. Finally, it provides reflections on future avenues of global resilience and socio-ecological resilience.

Bio

Tuija Kasa is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She holds a PhD in human rights education from the University of Helsinki. Her interdisciplinary PhD combined critical and feminist perspectives in educational sciences, moral philosophy, and human rights law. The empirical part of the study was on the realisation of human rights education in Finnish teacher education. Her research has focused on marginalized perspectives and (in)equality in education. Her postdoctoral research addresses how moral and political imagination can be enhanced through moral and human rights education. Kasa has diverse working experience on democratic and human rights education, children’s rights, and participation in higher education, governmental, and non-governmental institutions.

Programme

14.30 Coffee & snacks

Opening of the event (Oona Piipponen)

14.35 Addressing Marginalization and Inequality through Critical Human Rights Education: Reflections on Ethics and Global Resilience, Tuija Kasa, University of Helsinki

Discussants: Oona Piipponen, FRONT and Faculty of Education and Psychology

15.30 Discussion

16:00 Closing of the event