Swedish name: Demokrati, mänskliga rättigheter och gender: globala perspektiv i utbildning
This syllabus is valid: 2010-08-30 and until further notice
Course code: 6PE121
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
No main field: First cycle, in-depth level of the course cannot be classified
Grading scale: Three-grade scale
Responsible department: Department of Education
The course focuses on three main areas: democracy, human rights, and gender. Foundational issues for democracy are highlighted and problematized. Human rights are studied historically, politically and from the point of view of law, all from international and national perspectives. Contemporary theoretical issues within the field of gender and citizenship are studied. For the three main areas the study is guided by educational issues and global perspectives are looked upon. In addition an area for in-depth-study is chosen and more extensively studied.
Upon completion of the course students should be able to: - account for and discuss contemporary challenges to democracy - describe and analyse problems and potentiality in the area of international human rights discourse - identify and critically discuss contemporary issues in relation to citizenship and gender
Basic eligibility. Exception from demands on Swedish will be granted if the course is given in English.
The forms of study are lectures, seminars and workshops.
To pass the course it is required that all compulsory parts are passed. The course results are defined by the examinators overall assessment of the students learning outcomes. The course work is examined at the ordinary examination or re-examined at a later occasion during the same semester. An opportunity to re-examine the course work is normally given in the following semester provided the student has requested it. After that a student with a fail is advised to participate in the next ordinary examination. Re-examinations based on the same curriculum are guaranteed within the two years of the first registration on the course. A student has the right to change examiner for a course based on a written request to the head of department after two fails on the same course or a part of the course. Credit for the course is decided by by the Faculty of Arts. The form for applying of course credit www.umu.se/seblankett/SA.
Another cosmopolitanism[Elektronisk resurs]c Seyla Benhabib ; with commentaries by Jeremy Waldron, Bonnie Honig, Will Kymlicka ; edited and introduced by Robert Post.
Benhabib Seyla., Waldron Jeremy., Honig Bonnie., Kymlicka Will., Post Robert
Oxford ;a New York : Oxford University Press : 2006. : xii, 206 p. :
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Dahl Robert A.
On democracy
[New ed.] : New Haven ;a London : Yale University Press : 2000 : 217 s. :
ISBN: 0-300-08455-2 (pbk)
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Donnelly Jack
Universal human rights in theory and practice
2. ed. : Ithaca, N.Y. ;a London : Cornell U.P. : 2003 : 290 s. :
ISBN: 0-8014-4013-0 (inb.)
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Pogge Thomas
Politics as usual : what lies behind the pro-poor rhetoric
Cambridge : Polity : 2010 : 273 p. :
ISBN: 0-7456-3893-7
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Young Iris Marion
Inclusion and democracy
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2000 : x, 304 p. :
ISBN: 0-19-829754-8 (hbk)
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Young Iris Marion
Intersecting voices : dilemmas of gender, political philosophy, and policy
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press : 1997 : 195 s. :
ISBN: 0-691-01201-6 (cl : alk. paper)
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Davies Penny
China and the end of poverty in Africa : towards mutual benefit?
Sundbyberg : Diakonia : 2007 : 114 s. :
ISBN: 978-91-633-1275-5
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Peerenboom Randall P.
China modernizes : threat to the West or model for the rest?
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2007 : 406 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-19-920834-0 (hbk.)
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Taylor Ian
China's new role in Africa
Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers : 2009 : x, 227 s. :
ISBN: 978-1-58826-636-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Wolf Naomi
The end of America : letter of warning to a young patriot
White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Publishing : 2007 : 176 s. :
ISBN: 978-1-933392-79-0 (hft.)
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Farer Tom J.
Confronting global terrorism and American neo-conservatism : the framework of a liberal grand strategy
Oxford [UK] ;a New York : Oxford University Press : 2008 : x, 257 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-19-953473-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Furedi Frank
Invitation to terror : the expanding empire of the unknown
London : Continuum : 2007 : xxxvi, 204 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9957-8 (hbk.)
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Mayer Jane
Dark side : the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals
New York : Doubleday : cop. 2008 : 392 s., [8] pl.-s. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0835/2008299452-b.html
ISBN: 0-385-52639-3
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The three trillion dollar war : the true cost of the Iraq Conflict
Stiglitz Joseph E., Bilmes Linda
New York : W.W. Norton : c2008. : xxiii, 311 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-393-06701-9 (hardcover)
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Zakaria Fareed.
The post-American world
London : Allen Lane : 2008. : 292 p. :
ISBN: 978-1-84614-153-9 (hbk.)
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Parekh Bhikhu C
A new politics of identity : political principles for an interdependent world
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan : 2008 : 317 s. :
ISBN: 978-1-4039-0646-5 (hbk.)
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Biesta Gert.
Beyond learning : democratic education for a human future
Boulder : Paradigm Publishers : 2006. : 171 s. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006001592.html
ISBN: 978-1-59451-233-9 (hardcover)
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Changing notions of citizenship education in contemporary nation-states
Roth Klas, Burbules Nicholas C.
Rotterdam : Sense Publishers : cop. 2007 : v, 150 p. :
ISBN: 90-8790-043-0
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Decentering the center : philosophy for a multicultural, postcolonial, and feminist world
Narayan Uma, Harding Sandra G.
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana Univ. Press : cop. 2000 : xvi, 330 s. :
ISBN: 0-253-33737-2 (inb.)
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Odora Hoppers Catherine A.
Indigenous knowledge and the integration of knowledge systems : towards a philosophy of articulation
Claremont, South Africa : New Africa Books : 2002 : 285 s. :
ISBN: 1-919876-58-8
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McGhee Derek
The end of multiculturalism? : terrorism, integration and human rights
Maidenhead : Open University Press : 2008 : x, 198 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-335-22392-3 (pbk.)
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Young Iris Marion
Inclusion and democracy
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2000 : x, 304 p. :
ISBN: 0-19-829754-8 (hbk)
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Nussbaum Martha Craven
Capabilities as fundamental entitlements : Sen and social justice
Nussbaum Martha Craven
Sex and social justice
[New ed.] : New York : Oxford University Press : 2000 : ix, [3], 476 s. :
ISBN: 0-19-511210-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Pogge Thomas W
Can the Capability Approach Be Justified? : p 69 access at http://www.etikk.no/globaljustice
2003 :
Sen Amartya K.
Identity and violence : the illusion of destiny
1. ed.. : New York : W. W. Norton & Co. : 2006 : 215 p. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005033123.html
ISBN: 0-393-06007-1 (inb.)
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Stolten Hans Erik J.
History making and present day politics : the meaning of collective memory in South Africa
Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet : 2007 : 376 s. :
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ISBN: 978-91-7106-581-0
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Kelley Donald R.
After communism : perspectives on democracy
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press : 2003 : 304 s. :
ISBN: 1-55728-746-5 (hft.)
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Ambrosio Thomas
Authoritarian backlash : Russian resistance to democratization in the former Soviet Union
Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Company : 2008. : 240 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7350-7 (alk. paper)
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Fitzpatrick Sheila
Tear off the masks! : identity and imposture in twentieth-century Russia
Princeton, [N.J.] : Princeton University Press : cop. 2005 : 332 s. :
ISBN: 0-691-11353-X
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Past for the eyes : East European representations of communism in cinema and museums after 1989
Sarkisova Oksana, Apor Péter
Budapest ;a New York : Central European University Press : 2008. : xix, 416 p. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0716/2007017748.html
ISBN: 978-963-9776-03-6 (cloth)
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Neo-liberalism and Education in International Journal af Qualitative Studies in Education, 20:3
Davies Bronwyn, Bansel Peter
2007 : p 247-259 :
Gender economies: literacy and the gendered production of neo-liberal subjectivities in Gender and Education, 19:1
Davies Bronwyn, Sue Saltmarsch
2007 : p 1-20 :
Harvey David
A brief history of neoliberalism
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2005 : 247 s. :
ISBN: 0-19-928326-5
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Neo-liberalism, globalization and human capital learning : reclaiming education for democratic citizenship
Hyslop-Margison Emery J., Sears Alan M.
Dordrecht : Springer : 2006 : xv, 164 s. :
ISBN: 1-4030-3421-4 (inb.)
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Johansson Jonna
Learning to be(come) a good European : a critical analysis of the official European Union discourse on European identity and higher education
1. uppl. : Linköping : Department of Management and Engineering : 2007 : 356 s. :
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ISBN: 978-91-85895-01-4
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The global assault on teaching, teachers, and their unions : stories for resistance
Compton Mary F., Weiner Lois
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan : cop. 2008 : xiii, 281 s. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2007037225-b.html
ISBN: 0-230-60630-X (alk. paper)
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Mutua
Savages victims and saviors: The metaphor of human rights, in Harvard International Law Journal, Winter 2001 : http://www.law.buffalo.edu/Faculty_And_Staff/submenu/MutuaM/articles.asp
2001 : 34 p :
Bell Daniel
Beyond liberal democracy : political thinking for an East Asian context
Princeton, [N.J.] : Princeton University Press : 2006 : xii, 379 s. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006002730.html
ISBN: 0-691-12308-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Engle Merry Sally
Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press : 2006 : ix, 269s. :
ISBN: 0-226-52074-9 (pbk)
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Gearty Conor
Can human rights survive? : [the Hamlyn lectures 2005]
Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press : 2006 : xvi, 174 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-521-86644-6 (inb.)
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The dark sides of virtue : reassessing international humanitarianism
Kennedy David, Mayhew Doug
Princeton, N.J. ;a Oxford : Princeton University Press : 2004 : xxix, 368 s. :
ISBN: 0-691-11686-5 (inb.)
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