Christina Johnsson (Malmö University) will present her work on university human rights educations in Sweden.

Abstract: Human rights have been taught at universities in Sweden since the late 1990s.

While these programmes are substantively advanced, they are, like most university

educational programmes, delivered in a traditional academic manner.

However, the scholarly field of Human Rights Education critiques transmission

models of education, advocating for more evolved teaching and learning

methodologies that require academic educators to embody transformative

teaching and learning approaches. This article examines the perspectives of

nine human rights scholars responsible for cross-disciplinary human rights

programmes at five universities in Sweden. The research question explores

how educators’ views on university human rights education can be problematised

using theories on student subject-ness, criticality, activism, and transformation.

The findings and analysis show gaps between what is taught and how it

is taught. Based on the study, the author contributes to developing university

human rights education as a field targeting the relationship between human

rights education and educators’ practice.

 

Link to the article Christina will present: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25355406.2025.2452124