Conservations in place-space-time: human rights education in South Africa and the Netherlands

Becker, Anne; Avest, Ina ter; Roux, Cornelia

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Title:	Conservations in place-space-time: human rights education in South Africa and the Netherlands
Editors:	Becker, Anne Avest, Ina ter Roux, Cornelia
Year:	2023
Issue:	47
Pages:	223
Language:	English
Series:	ASC occasional publications
City of publisher:	Leiden, The Netherlands
Publisher:	African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL)
ISBN:	9789054481973
Geographic terms:	South Africa Netherlands
Subjects:	human rights education
External link:	https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3628089
Abstract:	Any analysis of histories and cultures of remembrance, bears testimony to the witnessing of humans who have either lived through the experiences as insiders or who have not lived through the experiences of the past as outsiders. The possibility of bearing witness to (remember) the horrors, trauma, and destitution of the human condition and to consider its implications for human rights education is what this anthology of essays is about. The editors, portrayed as insiders, cogently accentuate how human rights violations in South Africa and the Netherlands ought to be expiated through teaching and learning to justify and preserve dignity, self-respect, and freedom towards the advancement of affective life and humanity. Hopefully, through education, it is averred that degradation, inhumanity, and irresponsibility will be undermined and eradicated. The possibility that dignity and decency will remain in place and that it ought to be preserved at all costs even beyond the imagination, and rightfully so, seems to be at the centre of the editors' concern for the cultivation of human rights education. In this way, apartheid, colonialism and other pervasive torments of human and non-human life should be distanced from genuine educational encounters.