This book the seventeenth instalment in the 24-volume series Globalisation Comparative
Education and Policy Research explores the interrelationship between ideology the state and
human rights education reforms setting it in a global context. The book examines major human
rights education reforms and policy issues in a global culture. It focuses on the ambivalent
and problematic relationship between the state globalisation and human rights education
discourses. Using a number of diverse paradigms ranging from critical theory to
historical-comparative research the authors examine the reasons for and the outcomes of human
rights education reforms and policy. The authors discuss discourses surrounding the major
dimensions affecting the human rights education namely national identity democracy and
ideology. These dimensions are among the most critical and significant dimensions defining and
contextualising the processes surrounding the nation-building identity politics and human
rights education globally. With this as its focus the chapters represent hand-picked scholarly
research on major discourses in the field of human rights education reforms. The book draws
upon recent studies in the areas of globalisation equality and the role of the state in human
rights education reforms. Furthermore the perception of globalisation as dynamic and
multi-faceted processes clearly necessitates a multiple-perspective approach in the study of
human rights education. This book provides that perspective commendably. It also critiques
current human rights education practices and policy reforms. It illustrates the way shifts in
the relationship between the state and human rights education policy. In the book the authors
who come from diverse backgrounds and regions attempt insightfully to provide a worldview of
current developments in research concerning human rights education and citizenship education
globally. The book contributes in a very scholarly way to a more holistic understanding of
the nexus between nation-state human rights education both locally and globally.
