Human Rights and education: fundamental guidelines

The present work isbased on the assumptions established in the national human rights education and is concerned to know how the subject of human rights in the classroom is being addressed. How do teachers get information on the subject? What are the teachers' knowledge and practices on the subject? This theme, according to the World Program for Human Rights Education, is a theme that must permeate the pedagogical practice of teachers in the classroom. The research was qualitative and of descriptive nature, the same was still characterized as a case study. At first, a bibliographical research of books and articles was carried out, as well as in sites of the following subjects: Human Rights and Education in Human Rights. In the second moment the instruments of data collection were applied through questionnaires. In this way, it was verified that the school works in a very superficial way subjects related to the human rights to the point of not being perceived, being evident the need to advance in the direction to make a wide discussion with the school community on Human Rights.