The human rights imperative in teacher education: developing compassion, understanding, and advocacy

Editors Gloria T. Alter and William R. Fernekes’ informative, urgent book is a call to educators “to develop an accurate, in-depth understanding of human rights […] so that pre-service and in-service educators will know and be able to apply…democratic practices in the classroom and school-wide environments” (p. 1). The book is divided into three parts that do the work of establishing the imperative for teacher education programs to adopt human rights education (HRE) frameworks when preparing teachers for K-University classrooms, especially in the USA, and how integrating and further development of HRE in education settings, primarily through higher education, has...