Formación en Derechos Humanos en la Educación Superior

Abstract

This paper presents the findings of the ABDEM project, which deals with the incorporation of the Human Rights Based Approach in Higher Education in the Maghreb countries. An analysis of the status quo on Human Rights in the universities and countries of the Consortium has been carried out to perform a diagnostic evaluation which has then shaped the design of an online training of trainers. Education in Human Rights is a conditio sine qua non for the development of a critical and active citizenship. The article focuses on this relationship and on the need to strengthen Human Rights Education in all educational programs; in this context, the ABDEM project, and in particular its training programme, are presented as a case study. The main characteristics of the training programme are the transversal nature of its approach, the design of human rights learning from an interdisciplinary perspective, the implementation of competence-based learning, and the proposition of service learning as an active methodology to connect the university with the civil society. The conclusions highlight the interest in supporting training programs that incorporate the use of information technologies as a means to strengthen the development of a critical citizenship and connect the increasingly digitalised students with the problems of the societies they live in.