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Human rights are a product of a philosophical debate that has been argued since the beginning of mankind. Fueling this debate is the fact that many people have been unsatisfied with the notion that what is right or good is simply what a particular society or ruling elite feels is right or good at any given time. Great philosophers from the past such as Aristotle, Socrates and Thomas Aquinas focused extensively on their definition of human rights, among other ...
The introduction of human rights education as a specific part of the curriculum is the principal topic of this text, it is rather the necessity of ensuring that all parts of the curriculum, including the whole process of education, conform to the minimal human rights standards. It is rarely verified how teachers, authors of textbooks, parents and children themselves have understood and internalized these explicit values which education is required to promote. ...