Abstract

ESTEVAO, Carlos V.. Democracy, Human Rights and Education: Towards a critical perspective of human rights education. Rev. Lusófona de Educação [online]. 2011, n.17, pp.11-30. ISSN 1645-7250.

After a brief review of human rights theoretical perspectives according to the prevailing conceptions of state, the author presents three understandings of democracy: deliberative democracy, communicative democracy and democracy as human rights. From this framework, and taking into account the place of justice and rights in education, the author addresses a critical perspective of human rights education and its implications for conceptions of school, school culture, curriculum, learning, committed to emancipatory democracy

Keywords : Democracy; human rights; justice; human rights education.

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