ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how and why the use of film provides an effective strategy for integrating human rights into history or social studies classrooms. In particular, it argues that the capacity of film to render abstract principles, remote institutions, and complex interconnections accessible, to foster empathy and understanding across difference, and to present opportunities to take action, makes it an important pedagogical resource for human rights education. Through specific examples linked with key objectives identified in human rights education (HRE) standards and guidelines, th chapter provides a preliminary framework for identifying opportunities to use film in teaching about human rights topics, for human rights values, and through human rights skills. The final dimension of HRE, that is, education through human rights, implies in part that students will also be identifying, developing, and using a set of skills by which human rights are practically enjoyed and protected.
