Syllabus:

Democracy, human rights and gender: global perspectives in education, 7.5 credits

The course is discontinued

Swedish name: Demokrati, mänskliga rättigheter och gender: globala perspektiv i utbildning

This syllabus is valid: 2009-01-19 and until further notice

Course code: 6PE090

Credit points: 7.5

Education level: First cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: No main field: First cycle, in-depth level of the course cannot be classified

Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail

Responsible department: Department of Education

The course focuses on three main areas: democracy, human rights, and gender. Foundational issues for democracy are highlighted and problematized. Human rights are studied historically, politically and from the point of view of law, all from international and national perspectives. Contemporary theoretical issues within the field of gender and citizenship are studied. For the three main areas the study is guided by educational issues and global perspectives are looked upon. In addition an area for in-depth-study is chosen and more extensively studied.

Expected learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course students should be able to: - account for and discuss contemporary challenges to democracy - describe and analyse problems and potentiality in the area of international human rights discourse - identify and critically discuss contemporary issues in relation to citizenship and gender

Required Knowledge

General entry requirements

Form of instruction

The forms of study are lectures, seminars and workshops.

Examination modes

To pass the course it is required that all compulsory parts are passed. The course results are defined by the examinators overall assessment of the students learning outcomes. The course work is examined at the ordinary examination or re-examined at a later occasion during the same semester. An opportunity to re-examine the course work is normally given in the following semester provided the student has requested it. After that a student with a fail is advised to participate in the next ordinary examination. Re-examinations based on the same curriculum are guaranteed within the two years of the first registration on the course. A student has the right to change examiner for a course based on a written request to the head of department after two fails on the same course or a part of the course. Credit for the course is decided by by the Faculty of Arts. The form for applying of course credit www.umu.se/seblankett/SA.

Literature

Valid from: 2010 week 35

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Benhabib Seyla., Waldron Jeremy., Honig Bonnie., Kymlicka Will., Post Robert
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Dahl Robert A.
[New ed.] : New Haven ;a London : Yale University Press : 2000 : 217 s. :
ISBN: 0-300-08455-2 (pbk)
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Universal human rights in theory and practice
Donnelly Jack
2. ed. : Ithaca, N.Y. ;a London : Cornell U.P. : 2003 : 290 s. :
ISBN: 0-8014-4013-0 (inb.)
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World poverty and human rights : cosmopolitan responsibilities and reforms
Pogge Thomas Winfried Menko
2. ed. : Cambridge : Polity : 2008 : 352 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-7456-4144-7 (hft.)
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Inclusion and democracy
Young Iris Marion
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2000 : x, 304 p. :
ISBN: 0-19-829754-8 (hbk)
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Intersecting voices : dilemmas of gender, political philosophy, and policy
Young Iris Marion
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press : 1997 : 195 s. :
ISBN: 0-691-01201-6 (cl : alk. paper)
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China and the end of poverty in Africa : towards mutual benefit?
Davies Penny
Sundbyberg : Diakonia : 2007 : 114 s. :
ISBN: 978-91-633-1275-5
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China modernizes : threat to the West or model for the rest?
Peerenboom Randall P.
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2007 : 406 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-19-920834-0 (hbk.)
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China's new role in Africa
Taylor Ian
Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers : 2009 : x, 227 s. :
ISBN: 978-1-58826-636-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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The end of America : letter of warning to a young patriot
Wolf Naomi
White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Publishing : 2007 : 176 s. :
ISBN: 978-1-933392-79-0 (hft.)
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Confronting global terrorism and American neo-conservatism : the framework of a liberal grand strategy
Farer Tom J.
Oxford [UK] ;a New York : Oxford University Press : 2008 : x, 257 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-19-953473-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Invitation to terror : the expanding empire of the unknown
Furedi Frank
London : Continuum : 2007 : xxxvi, 204 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9957-8 (hbk.)
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Dark side : the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals
Mayer Jane
New York : Doubleday : cop. 2008 : 392 s., [8] pl.-s. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0835/2008299452-b.html
ISBN: 0-385-52639-3
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The three trillion dollar war : the true cost of the Iraq Conflict
Stiglitz Joseph E., Bilmes Linda
New York : W.W. Norton : c2008. : xxiii, 311 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-393-06701-9 (hardcover)
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The post-American world
Zakaria Fareed.
London : Allen Lane : 2008. : 292 p. :
ISBN: 978-1-84614-153-9 (hbk.)
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A new politics of identity : political principles for an interdependent world
Parekh Bhikhu C
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan : 2008 : 317 s. :
ISBN: 978-1-4039-0646-5 (hbk.)
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Beyond learning : democratic education for a human future
Biesta Gert.
Boulder : Paradigm Publishers : 2006. : 171 s. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006001592.html
ISBN: 978-1-59451-233-9 (hardcover)
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Changing notions of citizenship education in contemporary nation-states
Roth Klas, Burbules Nicholas C.
Rotterdam : Sense Publishers : cop. 2007 : v, 150 p. :
ISBN: 90-8790-043-0
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Decentering the center : philosophy for a multicultural, postcolonial, and feminist world
Narayan Uma, Harding Sandra G.
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana Univ. Press : cop. 2000 : xvi, 330 s. :
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Indigenous knowledge and the integration of knowledge systems : towards a philosophy of articulation
Odora Hoppers Catherine A.
Claremont, South Africa : New Africa Books : 2002 : 285 s. :
ISBN: 1-919876-58-8
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The end of multiculturalism? : terrorism, integration and human rights
McGhee Derek
Maidenhead : Open University Press : 2008 : x, 198 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-335-22392-3 (pbk.)
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Inclusion and democracy
Young Iris Marion
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2000 : x, 304 p. :
ISBN: 0-19-829754-8 (hbk)
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Capabilities as fundamental entitlements : Sen and social justice
Nussbaum Martha Craven

Sex and social justice
Nussbaum Martha Craven
[New ed.] : New York : Oxford University Press : 2000 : ix, [3], 476 s. :
ISBN: 0-19-511210-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Can the Capability Approach Be Justified? : p 69 access at http://www.etikk.no/globaljustice
Pogge Thomas W
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Identity and violence : the illusion of destiny
Sen Amartya K.
1. ed.. : New York : W. W. Norton & Co. : 2006 : 215 p. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005033123.html
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History making and present day politics : the meaning of collective memory in South Africa
Stolten Hans Erik J.
Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet : 2007 : 376 s. :
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ISBN: 978-91-7106-581-0
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After communism : perspectives on democracy
Kelley Donald R.
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press : 2003 : 304 s. :
ISBN: 1-55728-746-5 (hft.)
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Authoritarian backlash : Russian resistance to democratization in the former Soviet Union
Ambrosio Thomas
Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Company : 2008. : 240 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7350-7 (alk. paper)
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Tear off the masks! : identity and imposture in twentieth-century Russia
Fitzpatrick Sheila
Princeton, [N.J.] : Princeton University Press : cop. 2005 : 332 s. :
ISBN: 0-691-11353-X
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Past for the eyes : East European representations of communism in cinema and museums after 1989
Sarkisova Oksana, Apor Péter
Budapest ;a New York : Central European University Press : 2008. : xix, 416 p. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0716/2007017748.html
ISBN: 978-963-9776-03-6 (cloth)
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Neo-liberalism and Education in International Journal af Qualitative Studies in Education, 20:3
Davies Bronwyn, Bansel Peter
2007 : p 247-259 :

Gender economies: literacy and the gendered production of neo-liberal subjectivities in Gender and Education, 19:1
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2007 : p 1-20 :

A brief history of neoliberalism
Harvey David
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Neo-liberalism, globalization and human capital learning : reclaiming education for democratic citizenship
Hyslop-Margison Emery J., Sears Alan M.
Dordrecht : Springer : 2006 : xv, 164 s. :
ISBN: 1-4030-3421-4 (inb.)
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Learning to be(come) a good European : a critical analysis of the official European Union discourse on European identity and higher education
Johansson Jonna
1. uppl. : Linköping : Department of Management and Engineering : 2007 : 356 s. :
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ISBN: 978-91-85895-01-4
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The global assault on teaching, teachers, and their unions : stories for resistance
Compton Mary F., Weiner Lois
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan : cop. 2008 : xiii, 281 s. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2007037225-b.html
ISBN: 0-230-60630-X (alk. paper)
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Savages victims and saviors: The metaphor of human rights, in Harvard International Law Journal, Winter 2001 : http://www.law.buffalo.edu/Faculty_And_Staff/submenu/MutuaM/articles.asp
Mutua
2001 : 34 p :

Beyond liberal democracy : political thinking for an East Asian context
Bell Daniel
Princeton, [N.J.] : Princeton University Press : 2006 : xii, 379 s. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006002730.html
ISBN: 0-691-12308-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice
Engle Merry Sally
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press : 2006 : ix, 269s. :
ISBN: 0-226-52074-9 (pbk)
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Can human rights survive? : [the Hamlyn lectures 2005]
Gearty Conor
Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press : 2006 : xvi, 174 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-521-86644-6 (inb.)
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The dark sides of virtue : reassessing international humanitarianism
Kennedy David, Mayhew Doug
Princeton, N.J. ;a Oxford : Princeton University Press : 2004 : xxix, 368 s. :
ISBN: 0-691-11686-5 (inb.)
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Valid from: 2005 week 26

On democracy
Dahl Robert A.
[New ed.] : New Haven ;a London : Yale University Press : 2000 : 217 s. :
ISBN: 0-300-08455-2 (pbk)
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International human rights
Donnelly Jack
3rd ed. : Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press : 2007 : xiv, 247 s. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0613/2006015002.html
ISBN: 978-0-8133-4326-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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