Undergraduate research and human rights

Autor(en)

Andreas Schloenhardt, Melissa Curley

Abstrakt

This article describes a pilot teaching collaboration at The University of Queensland involving inquiry-based, interdisciplinary learning in the undergraduate curriculum, specifically in the study of human trafficking and smuggling of migrants. It describes collaboration between the university’s School of Political Science and International Studies and its School of Law to facilitate a student working group to plan, present, and disseminate students’ research
on this topic. An interdisciplinary learning environment was encouraged by having two academics, one from each of the schools, facilitate the working group.
We argue that the inquiry-based learning (IBL) format, as exemplified by the working group, has advantages to offer human-rights educators. These advantages include teaching techniques and assessment approaches that help
to highlight the importance of information sources, and the role of disciplinary knowledge and student’s own belief systems within human-rights research.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Strafrecht und Kriminologie

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Queensland

Journal

Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly

Band

34

Seiten

24-29

Anzahl der Seiten

6

ISSN

1072-5830

Publikationsdatum

2014

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

505024 Strafrecht

Schlagwörter

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 5 – Geschlechtergleichheit, SDG 8 – Menschenwürdige Arbeit und Wirtschaftswachstum, SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/a3266794-3327-4650-b77f-4078f11b4eee