Feeling-Thinking Human Rights: Reflections on a Summer Course

Abstract

This article discusses human rights education based on the experience of the course
ESGE 4077 Human rights in the contemporary world, a requirement of the Human Rights Minor
of the General Studies Bachelor’s Degree Program of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Campus, Puerto Rico. It includes the final essays of four students of the 2021 summer session.
Their essays address topics such as the right to education, the right to protest, the analysis of the representations of human rights in narrative texts and the harmonious relationship between
human rights and ecofeminism. The main purpose is to illustrate the virtues of reflective and
critical instruction, the feeling-thinking practice, as part of a critical pedagogy for human rights
education.