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Welcome! Citizenship Debates critiques the discourse around global citizenship, human rights and justice in the teaching methods, textbooks, and tools (ed tech) for pedagogy and andragogy. Our platform encompasses the scholarship of lecturers and students from The Hague University for Applied Sciences and the Global Citizenship Research Group. It is a repository for our work and a space for insights and provocations surrounding teaching and learning in internationalized academic institutions. Citizenship Debates scrutinizes the language of inclusion and universality in human rights and global citizenship conversations found in textbooks and teaching materials. We reflect critically on trends in educational technology that emphasizes business models over sound teaching and assessment practices.

ABOUT US

Tamara Lewis

Teacher-Trainer/Researcher, Global Citizenship Research Group; Senior Lecturer, International and European Law

Aban Ador

Student Researcher, Global Citizenship Research Group; Future Applied Research Project student for the THUAS Global Citizenship research group (2023-2024 Semester 1)

Jan Brochwicz

Applied Research Project student for the THUAS Global Citizenship research group (2022-2023 Semester 1)

OUR WORK

A Survey About How Students and Teachers View Human Rights Law Courses

by Jan Raduchowski-Brochwicz

Published: Jan 29, 2023

Survey and analysis conducted in connection with research about the decolonization of International Human Rights Law textbooks. Jan Raduchowski-Brochwicz conducted the survey while completing an Applied Research Project at The Hague University of Applied Sciences Law department.

How are the roots of modern international human rights reflected in the assigned textbooks for (under)graduate law courses in western countries?

by Jan Raduchowski-Brochwicz

Published: Jan 29, 2023

This research aims to examine the representation of the roots of modern international human rights in undergraduate law textbooks used in western countries.

UDHR Disrupted

by Tamara Lewis Arredondo

Published: May 21, 2023

A desktop documentary that disrupts the UDHR's Article 1. If human rights are universal, who gets to choose the rights? By directly editing and striking out words. one can critique concepts like universality, even indivisibility. Also, a textual disruption of the preamble to UDHR

Contextualizing the UDHR Master Narrative

by Tamara Lewis Arredondo

Published: May 06, 2023

Our idealized history of the foundng of UN human rights mechanisms includes a master narrative revering Eleanor Roosevelt for securing the rights in the UDHS. What happens to the master narrative when we contextualize it with the counter narrative of non hegemons?

Global Citizenship Reflections

by Tamara Lewis Arredondo

Published: Jan 29, 2023

Students at The Hague University of Applied Sciences were asked to give their understandings of Global Citizenship during the 2020-2021 academic year. Two short videos were produced and posted on Instagram. View them below by pressing the play icon for each video.

Useful Lenses for Teaching and Learning Human Rights

by Tamara Lewis Arredondo

Published: Jan 29, 2023

Human Rights Education is dominated by western-centric explanations of the origins and systems of protection of human rights around the world. While Western understandings are legitimate approaches to human rights, other critical lenses give insight into human rights practices.

The Hegemony of the Written Word

by Tamara Lewis Arredondo

Published: May 07, 2023

Should Public International Law and International Law be positivist, admitting only written standards and norms? Or should weight and credence be equally available for oral narratives, especially those from the non hegemonic groups?