• Israel Muvindi

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• Dorcas Zuvalinyenga

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• Daimond Dziva

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The paper explores the topical issue on Human Rights Education. It first
distinguishes between Human Rights Education and education as a human right. Then
it traces past and present human right abuses internationally and nationally in the
context of education. It then interrogates the attempts and challenges of incorporating
Human Rights Education in the Zimbabwean curriculum. The American case study is
used for comparison purposes. It came out that Human Rights Education is generally
taught implicitly in the existing curriculum than explicitly in both cases. It has also
emerged that the attempts to consciously teach these rights to Zimbabwean pupils is
often regarded with suspicion at its best and outright resistance at its worst, given the
highly polarised political environment which has not spared education. The paper
recommends a more robust approach to Human Rights Education which can be a
panacea to a culture of human rights abuses.

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