A recent article in the Oxford Journal of Human Rights Practice

De-Constructing Marginality with Displaced People: Learning Rights from an Actor-Oriented Perspective by Maro Pantazidou

The article can be found here:

http://jhrp.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/2/267.full 

Here is the abstract:

In this article, I reflect on the lessons learned from a one year action-research process with displaced people in London to advocate for an actor-oriented approach to human rights education. I suggest that when it comes to supporting marginalized people to claim their rights, we need not to look for a transferable set of skills and knowledge but to nurture a rights consciousness – a sense of entitlement to one's rights – through transformative learning methodologies. The article discusses both the content and pedagogy of such methodologies, paying special attention to critical reflection and affective learning. I conclude that for us as human rights educators to engage in transformative learning for human rights we need to approach rights as rooted in the relationships, contextual realities, and perspectives of the people we work for and with, and I suggest that the way we understand rights incurs a set of implications for the way we ‘teach’ and claim them.