人權教育與世界公民：理論探討及其在不同社會文化背景之應用

Human Rights Education and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Theoretical Considerations and Their Application in Differing Sociocultural Contexts

本文探討不同社會文化中的公立學校體系在推行人權教育時所面臨的若干挑戰。人權教育具有世界性(cosmopolitan)的本質，然而各國公立學校體系卻鮮少認為國家具有世界性特質。本研究強調兩個重要的人權概念：普遍性(universality)與肯認(recognition)。

This Paper explores some of the challenges of implementing human rights education, characterised as a comopolitan project, within the national framework of public schools, which rarely conceive of the nation as cosmopolitan. It focuses on two human rights concepts, universality and recogniotn, concepts which need to be revisited if we are to develop a theory and practice of human rights education (HRE) which meets the needs of contemporary societies which are increasingly recognised as diverse, which continue to be characterized by asymmetrical power relations and by antidemocratic and extremist political movements.