Childhood education and human rights education: the building of a peace culture since birth

Abstract

This article discusses Early Childhood Education and Human Rights Education and aims to present propositions related to the defense that human rights education should take shape from early childhood education. This is a bibliographic study that brings human rights into context, considering advances and setbacks. The investigation establishes a relationship between human rights and education as a possibility to think about the right to education as a way to educate towards peace. In addition, it discusses human rights education as a powerful category for building a human rights culture and presents some considerations about it, starting with early childhood education. It is concluded that the child's contact, from the first years of life, with knowledge, experiences, examples and attitudes that affirm the dignity of the other, the values ??of equality and difference, fraternity and collectivity, freedom and ethics, may bring significant contributions to the construction of a new culture.