Human Rights Education in Favor of a More Just Society

Abstract

The present article addresses the issue of human rights education as a cross-curricular discipline. For this purpose, we seek to identify the strategies for the implementation of public policies in this field of education. This work analyzes the teaching-learning process in human rights subject, which implies the protection of the inherent dignity and value of each human being, without distinction of educational degrees, as a set of universal principles with cross-cultural validity. This is an investigation that arises from the need to teach and learn about human rights, but also about the promotion of human rights, insofar as its primary function is to give people the necessary means to defend their own rights and those of others, in favor of a more just society in which the human rights of all the people are valued and respected. Based on a qualitative research, we carried out an interpretive study that includes the analysis of the theory on this matter to explain the social phenomenon under study, since this research is based on the postulates of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international regulations developed from this instrument. The development of this work addresses the main concepts of human rights, as well as the foundations, contents and basic techniques of participation that enable us to teach, learn and promote the dignity and intrinsic value of people. As a conclusion, it is established that the education about human rights allows the student to attain a better understanding of the world in which he lives, to have the capability to propose better structured solutions to the problems he might face, as well as to become a champion of the culture of peace.