Thinking About Education in Human Rights from an Ethical and Controversial Perspective

• Main Authors: Abraham Magendzo, Ángela Bermúdez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica 2018-05-01
• Series: Revista Latinoamericana de Derechos Humanos
• Subjects: educación en derechos humanos; ética; controversialidad
• Online Access: http://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/derechoshumanos/article/view/10287

This paper delves into the relationship between the education in human rights and ethics from a controversial perspective. It is a direction that seeks to help people become active and participatory citizens in a pluralistic democracy. Three fundamental ethical principles are analyzed, and they allow teaching human rights through controversy: Human rights: a global ethics of human rights; human rights: an ethical minimum; human rights and moral pluralism. This article proposes to relate human rights education with the critical-dialogical pedagogy. In this perspective are identified four critical inquiry tools that serve to develop different dimensions for a critical understanding in the social sphere: the approach of the problem, the reflexive skepticism, the multiperspectivity, and systemic thinking.