The Art of Human Rights Education: Applying Community Cultural Development Methods in Human Rights Education

Community art practice, which is also coded as Community Cultural Development (CCD) is emerging as an effective and popular community development method in Australia. CCD practices have great potentials of delivering Human Rights Education (HRE) because both CCD and HRE disciplines place strong emphasises on empowering the community through education and engagement. This chapter supports adaptation of CCD practices in HRE, providing a theoretical and practical framework. The article also provides a model of delivering a CCD based HRE project by outlining key choices that a practitioner requires to make during the process of conceptualising a HRE project: (a) the topic of human rights, (b) the scope of the education project, (c) the educational method and (b) the education process. During this discussion, this article will closely study Songs of Anklets, a successful CCD based HRE project delivered in Western Sydney.