ABSTRACT
Human rights education is often a vehicle for GCE as it affirms the dignity of all people regardless of legal standing. As citizenship centers on the relationships of individuals to each other and the larger society, bodies of law and constitutions are a typical starting point. But human rights education (HRE) is somewhat different than civic education from a legal/national frame, since the latter presumes a sovereign, state-based jurisdiction and HRE has a transcendent ethos related to personhood that is not necessarily confined to a national entity. In this way HRE intentionally orients outwards, beyond the legal entity that most typically grounds a person’s identity as a citizen. HRE is therefore a useful venue for GCE and one that makes it fairly prevalent in fields of practice (Oxley & Morris, 2013).
