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Suzanne Egan

@suzanneegan.bsky.social

🪷Associate Professor University College Dublin • Human Rights Law and Education • Law in the Classroom • Public Legal Education •Children’s Rights

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Just finished a full week of mock trials with children from all the participating schools in my Law in the Classroom module @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social. Hats off to all my students for working so hard to make the experience as fun and engaging for the children as always 👏🎈👩‍⚖️

28.03.2025 17:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Addressing human rights education’s curriculum problem: an interdisciplinary solution This article responds to Parker’s turn to powerful knowledge (PK) in addressing what he terms a ‘curriculum problem’ in human rights education (HRE) in schools. By focusing on the key criteria of p...

Check out this new article by @suzanneegan.bsky.social in HRER 8(1) which looks at the potential of powerful knowledge theory to inform #HumanRights Education curriculum development & the need for greater interdisciplinary engagement
#OpenAccess

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

25.03.2025 22:48 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 IAHRE Conference & Call for Papers- 12-13 June 2025 – London Human Rights Education and Youth Empowerment Thursday 12 June from 12.30pm and Friday 13 June 2025 9.30 – 16.00  Venue: IOE UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0…

Pleased to announce the three keynote speakers for the 2025 International Association for Human Rights Education conference Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, Professor Kate Nash (LSE) & Professor Uvanney Mallory (Bedfordshire)
Check out details & registration here

18.03.2025 23:59 — 👍 18    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

⭐️Did you miss this?
⭐️Do you have a potential research submission in #HumanRights #Education or that applies a rights-based analysis?
⭐️If so, we’d love to hear from you
⭐️We’ve an open call for papers
⭐️Check out our aims & scope www.tandfonline.com/journals/rhr...
@tandfresearch.bsky.social

14.03.2025 17:18 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Sport as a space for human rights education and children’s rights Children’s participation in sport presents a key opportunity for the advancement of human rights education. Human rights education is recognised as vital to the realisation of human rights. However...

Finally joined @bsky.app. Kicking off with an article that @ursulak.bsky.social & I published recently on #Sport, #ChildRights, and #HumanRightsEducation — fair to say I’m obsessed about all three.

Sport as a space for human rights education & children’s rights
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

16.03.2025 18:22 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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An evening with Nicola Kelly | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An evening with Nicola Kelly today.

London event: I'll be speaking about 'Anywhere But Here' @waterstones.bsky.social in Victoria (around the corner from the Home Office!) on 16 April at 19.30. Tickets at the link below. Come and say hi!

www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

17.03.2025 10:14 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.

18.03.2025 07:41 — 👍 625    🔁 349    💬 25    📌 20
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Trump Demands Major Changes in Columbia Discipline and Admissions Rules A letter outlining “immediate next steps” arrived less than a week after the administration said it was canceling $400 million in grants and contracts.

The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

14.03.2025 11:56 — 👍 1780    🔁 726    💬 32    📌 42
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US Justice Dept probes Columbia war protests for terrorism violations, official says The U.S. Justice Department is examining whether student protests at Columbia University over the Gaza war violated federal terrorism laws, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Friday.

🚨🚨 This is very, very bleak as democracy and free speech seems to be slowly dying in America. The dystopian authoritarian future envisaged by Margaret Atwood seems no longer fiction but dawning reality in #trump land. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

14.03.2025 19:37 — 👍 98    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 0
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HRER authors @beategold.bsky.social & Ragnhild Lindahl Torstensen heading to Trondheim today to present latest #OpenAccess article Pornography & #HumanRights Education doi.org/10.1080/2535...

11.03.2025 08:00 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Welcome Ulster School of Law @ulsterunischlaw.bsky.social to Bluesky! @conorom.bsky.social @aoifemod.bsky.social @aileenmcharg.bsky.social @liamthornton.bsky.social @suzanneegan.bsky.social @niaolainf.bsky.social @ukcla.bsky.social @markard-chair.bsky.social @icon-s.bsky.social

18.02.2025 20:26 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Our final week in DEIS schools with Law in the Classroom draws to a close - looking forward now to the children coming to @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social to do their mock trials very soon 🧑‍⚖️

14.03.2025 16:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We were very fortunate to have award winning journalist and author @sallyhayd.bsky.social visiting @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social last week as Adjunct Professor of Law to share her expertise and experience on a range of issues, inc. conflict, the politics of #humanrights, and migrants and refugees.

12.03.2025 08:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Human Rights Education Review Special edition on language education and human rights education. Volume 7, Issue 1 of Human Rights Education Review

Check out HRER’s most recent Special Issue on #HRE & Language Education @ele-uni-ms.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social @bilingualismloncen.bsky.social @isbilingualism.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rhre20/c...

25.02.2025 09:00 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Tackling ignorance about law in human rights education You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.

I am absolutely delighted to share that my article on Tackling Ignorance about Law in Human Rights Education has just been published open access @berj-2025.bsky.social. Looking forward to feedback 🙏

bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YEVSTX...

21.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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This paper aims to unpack potential reasons why law and legal knowledge—despite its apparent importance and value in teaching and learning about human rights—appears to be largely conspicuous by its absence in human rights education (HRE) in schooling. Drawing on a range of contextually relevant categories of ignorance identified from discourse on epistemologies of ignorance, it argues that deficits in legal literacy on the part of the wide range of stakeholders involved in HRE can manifest in multiple guises, including: ignorance as a strategic choice for political ends; ignorance as a conscious, rational and practical (not necessarily self-interested) choice; and inadvertent ignorance or such that is unconsciously selective in nature. By approaching the issue from this novel standpoint, the overarching aim of the paper is to illuminate the prospects and possibilities for tackling instances of such ignorance going forward.

Abstract This paper aims to unpack potential reasons why law and legal knowledge—despite its apparent importance and value in teaching and learning about human rights—appears to be largely conspicuous by its absence in human rights education (HRE) in schooling. Drawing on a range of contextually relevant categories of ignorance identified from discourse on epistemologies of ignorance, it argues that deficits in legal literacy on the part of the wide range of stakeholders involved in HRE can manifest in multiple guises, including: ignorance as a strategic choice for political ends; ignorance as a conscious, rational and practical (not necessarily self-interested) choice; and inadvertent ignorance or such that is unconsciously selective in nature. By approaching the issue from this novel standpoint, the overarching aim of the paper is to illuminate the prospects and possibilities for tackling instances of such ignorance going forward.

New open access article in BERJ from the brilliant @suzanneegan.bsky.social talking about the reasons underlying the absence of law & legal knowledge from human rights education. Definitely well worth a read 👏

bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

19.02.2025 09:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Addressing human rights education’s curriculum problem: an interdisciplinary solution This article responds to Parker’s turn to powerful knowledge (PK) in addressing what he terms a ‘curriculum problem’ in human rights education (HRE) in schools. By focusing on the key criteria of p...

Parker’s argument inspired me in writing my recent piece - just published in the latest volume of @hrer.bsky.social “Addressing Human Rights Education’s Curriculum Problem: An Interdisciplinary Solution” tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25355406.2025.2464118?src=exp-la

19.02.2025 15:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No surprise to see Walter Parker’s hugely thought provoking article HRE’s “curriculum problem” coming in at the top of @hrer.bsky.social most cited articles👇🏼

19.02.2025 15:48 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Such an impt pt: We need to equip people with "practices (skills, knowledge, attitudes, habits of mind) that allow them to exert agency over technology." This aligns with John's comment on the pod that adults who use genAI well already have critical thinking along w relevant knowledge.

15.02.2025 15:44 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
From our communities to the UN: hostile politics will not divide us. GRIPP and RAPAR
YouTube video by GRIPP Partnership From our communities to the UN: hostile politics will not divide us. GRIPP and RAPAR

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzr4...

13.02.2025 14:14 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

This is the 1st time, as far as I can gather from my own research, that the CESCR has raised the issue of children in care from families in poverty in relation to any country. The UK Gov admitted failure, and that it has to change. It's something to hold them to account in the future. #CESCR2025 🇬🇧

14.02.2025 09:51 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

⭐️Another reason to publish your work in Human Rights Education Review www.tandfonline.com/journals/rhr...
⭐️We work hard to get peer reviewers’ back to authors in a timely fashion- so you can publish your research as promptly as possible, as @suzanneegan.bsky.social experienced

13.02.2025 12:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

ability to print high-quality books for children that can be companion pieces to academic output.

@suzanneegan.bsky.social & I are trying to get an engaging children's book on law published alongside our book on Legal Education in the Classroom, but existing university presses aren't set up 2/4

06.02.2025 16:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Addressing human rights education’s curriculum problem: an interdisciplinary solution This article responds to Parker’s turn to powerful knowledge (PK) in addressing what he terms a ‘curriculum problem’ in human rights education (HRE) in schools. By focusing on the key criteria of p...

🎉Chuffed to be part of @hrer.bsky.social Human Rights Education Review’s exciting new journey with @tandfresearch.bsky.social @bsky.social. Very impressed with the fast 💨 turnaround time. My new article is now available Open Access 🆓👇🏼https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25355406.2025.2464118

13.02.2025 11:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Addressing human rights education’s curriculum problem: an interdisciplinary solution This article responds to Parker’s turn to powerful knowledge (PK) in addressing what he terms a ‘curriculum problem’ in human rights education (HRE) in schools. By focusing on the key criteria of p...

📣 My article on why interdisciplinary collaboration is essential for curriculum making in human rights education has just been published #OpenAccess 🆓
@hrer.bsky.social Hoping it’s reliance on the theory of powerful knowledge sparks some interesting conversations!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

13.02.2025 11:53 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Addressing human rights education’s curriculum problem: an interdisciplinary solution This article responds to Parker’s turn to powerful knowledge (PK) in addressing what he terms a ‘curriculum problem’ in human rights education (HRE) in schools. By focusing on the key criteria of p...

🎉Chuffed to be part of Human Rights Education Review’s @hrer.bsky.social exciting new chapter with @taylorandfrancisresearch.bsky.social as editor and also as an author. Very impressed with the fast 💨turnaround time on my latest article available #OpenAccess 🆓

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

13.02.2025 11:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Feminist legal pedagogies and how to do them Published in The Law Teacher (Ahead of Print, 2025)

@theltjournal.bsky.social this past week:

Koukab and Mazhar review 'Feminist legal pedagogies and how to do them': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

12.02.2025 10:20 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

#EduSky
#LatinAmerica
#HumanRights
⭐️Don’t delay - just 12 working days left to get abstracts in
⭐️Deadline 3 March 2025
⭐️ think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

12.02.2025 19:59 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Children’s rights, participatory research and the co-construction of national belonging This article contributes to the debate on human rights education in diverse societies. It is concerned with the relationship between participation and the co-construction of national belonging. Our...

At #8 in HRER’s countdown of all time most cited articles is this piece by PRIO’s Marta Bivand Erdal & Mette Stromso on youth participation rights & the engagement of diverse students in co-constructing national belonging with their teachers. A key item to re-read in divisive times

11.02.2025 01:27 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Human Rights Teaching: Snapshots from Four Countries This article examines how some schools with ethnically diverse student populations are teaching about, for, and through human rights. The author conducted a secondary analysis of qualitative data f...

At #7 in our countdown of most cited articles is Carole Hahn’s analysis of teaching about, for and through #HumanRights in #Denmark, #Germany, #Netherlands & UK
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

12.02.2025 03:16 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

@suzanneegan is following 20 prominent accounts