Featuring contributed chapters written by experts within the field, Learning Critical Thinking Skills Beyond the 21st Century for Multidisciplinary Courses: A Human Rights Perspective in Education provides readers with various perspectives regarding the intersection of education, human rights, and critical thinking. The text integrates strategies and best practices that support equitable education, elevate human rights, and pave the way for a better future.
The text is divided into four modules. In Module 1, readers learn about the history and evolution of human rights, how students can integrate language arts and human rights into STEM/STEAM subjects, and how critical teaching and social justice teaching can increase students' involvement and understanding. Module 2 features scholarship on leadership and inclusion in cross-cultural and multidisciplinary critical thinking, field theory as a means to analyze the social world critically, and the need across the disciplines for high-quality critical thinking. In Module 3, chapters speak to the critical nature of cultural learning and individual life experience in the quest for sustainability, the dynamics of cultural encounters, the correlation between art and mathematics from an instructional aspect, and how digital storytelling can foster greater academic literacy. The final module features chapters on humanistic literacy, strategies to enhance global literacy, and critical and cultural literacy.

Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite holds a Ph.D. in language and development in the field of comparative and international education from the University of Oslo in Norway. She grew up bilingual and studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, where she specialized in French Teaching for Foreigners. She has taught a variety of courses at the University of California, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, San Jose State University, and Saint Mary's College. She has written numerous articles published in tier-one academic journals, contributed chapters for many books, authored two monographs, and edited four books. Dr. Babaci-Wilhite is fluent in French, English, Norwegian, Japanese, and Berber with knowledge of Arabic, Portuguese, German, Spanish, and Swahili.