REIMAGINING EDUCATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUSTAINABILITY

Abstract

Education is critical towards the development of socially responsible, ethically conscious and environmentally aware citizens. In the current international environment characterized by social inequalities, the climate crises, and human rights abuses, education must be radically reconsidered as one of the tools that encourages human dignity and sustainable development. This chapter deceives how education can be reinvented in order to incorporate the principles of human rights and sustainability values in the curriculum, pedagogy and institutional practices. It relies on the international standards like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations to point out the interdependence of the human rights education and the education towards sustainable development. It explores the issues of the current education systems, such as inequity, exclusion, and policy gaps, and suggests innovative, inclusive, and participatory challenges in teaching and learning. The chapter also highlights the contribution of educators, policymakers, and institutions in promoting critical thinking, global citizenship and being ethical. This chapter propagates the issue of education as a tool of social justice and environmental custodianship in a world that is increasingly interconnected by promoting rights-based and sustainability-oriented educational reforms.