Üniversite Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Seda KALEM BERK

Konular:Sosyal

DOI:10.32329/uad.579963

Anahtar Kelimeler:Human rights education,Human rights Research,Human rights in higher education,Human rights education in Turkey

Özet: This article is based on the findings of the “Türkiye’de Yükseköğretimde İnsan Hakları Öğreniminin Durumu” research project that was carried out in the period of August 2017-February 2018. The main objective of the project was to create a database of academic knowledge on human rights through an examination of courses at law faculties and political science departments and activities of research centers. In Turkey, particularly since 1990s, human rights education has received significant attention within public bureaucracy, civil society and academia. This education, however, has mostly been in the form of awaraness raising, capacity increasing activities for different groups. Studies that focus on the use of human rights education as a method for increasing social responsibility among young people, on the other hand, mostly focus on primary, middle and high school students. This reveals the scarcity of works on the role of human rights education in higher learning. As a baseline study, this article is an inital attempt to fill this gap with large-scale quantitative information that allows us to map out the current state of human rights education in academia. This quantitative introduction intends to pave the way for more qualitative studies on the content, the methods and the impact of human rights courses and projects in higher learning. In this article, data on political science departments and research centers will be covered and law faculties will be the focus of another piece. 

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