Centering Marginalized Voices: Examining Political and Social Rights in Pakistani Elite School Textbooks
Arjumand Rauf,
Yaar Muhammad,
Amna Yousaf
Abstract:The qualitative content analysis examines the incorporation of human rights education (HRE) in Pakistani citizenship education by examining political and social rights narratives in History textbooks of elite private schools. Utilizing Gagnon and Pagé’s ‘effective system of rights’ framework (1999), this study explored the depth and diversity of rights issue coverage in 13 textbooks. Textbooks show considerable gaps in the representation of rights struggles, exclusion of minority perspectives, and normalizatio… Show more
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