Human rights education in Brazilian higher education: An overview of the theoretical and normative elements

This paper aims to present an overview of the theoretical and normative foundations of Human Rights Education in Higher Education, with special emphasis on the constitutive process of this educational practice in the Brazilian context. To this purpose, the authors sought to understand the context in...

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Autores: Dibbern, Thais Aparecida, Serafim, Milena Pavan
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Recursos:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Educação
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/37147
Acesso em linha:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/faced/article/view/37147
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:educação em direitos humanos
ensino superior
compromisso social
Brasil
human rights education
higher education
social commitment
Brazil
educación en derechos humanos
enseñanza superior
compromiso social
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Resumo:This paper aims to present an overview of the theoretical and normative foundations of Human Rights Education in Higher Education, with special emphasis on the constitutive process of this educational practice in the Brazilian context. To this purpose, the authors sought to understand the context in which HEIs are inserted – especially public universities – as well as the theoretical foundation of HRD present in academic literature and in the main Brazilian instruments and norms. As main results, it is possible to highlight the following: (a) HRD, as a recent educational practice, is linked to the perspective that the social commitment to be assumed by public universities consists in the production of basic research and the formation of critical knowledge; (b) this practice, as an essential part of the set of fundamental rights, aims to prevent violations, to inform and to make known the rights by which we are subjected; (c) in Higher Education, it is established, mainly, in the National Plan for HRD, as well as in the National Guidelines for HRD, constituting an axis of action by which Brazilian universities are required to act.