2025/09/02 by Ricardo Römhild, Greg William Misiaszek · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees #Global Educational Policies and Reforms #Peace and Human Rights Education
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/25355406.2025.2568530
openalex publication_date 2025/09/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/15 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
This article explores intersections of human rights (HR) discourses and (environmental) global citizenship education (GCE) by applying ecopedagogical perspectives to expand both HR frameworks and GCE. At the core of this contribution sits the argument that ecopedagogical theories can enhance and expand HR and their education (HRE) by emphasising and including more-than-human rights in the discussion. Arguing that Earth’s rights are integral to human rights (HR) discourses because the tackling of social issues and environmental injustices is not a contradiction, not an either/or-decision, the paper ecopedagogically widens GCE to include planetary citizenship, discusses various intersections and affinities between GCE, HRE, and sustainability, and examines how the inclusion of more-than-human rights would feed back into HR/E in terms of policy, curriculum, and practice.