This study is the research on the plans of revitalizing the human rights education through the ethics department in secondary schools.
Although all of us have the human rights because we are human beings, we need much time to establish the human righ...
This study is the research on the plans of revitalizing the human rights education through the ethics department in secondary schools.
Although all of us have the human rights because we are human beings, we need much time to establish the human rights in this society. There are many parts where human rights are not respected. In this situation, the enforcement of human rights education has important meaning. The importance of human rights education gets in moral subject which orients human dignity and tries to enhance the desirable personality.
Besides, it is the beginning of human rights education to discuss physical freedom and to let the students understand social rights and group rights. However, the final goal of the human rights education will be to let them have the virtue to be considerate to others. Up to now, there has not been sufficient human rights education at school. Especially human rights education has not been performed well in moral subject. It is because human rights related contents in the moral textbook of middle school are too much superficial and they do not explain human rights or the principles of human rights properly from the perspective of methodology.
While to respect, protect and improve the human rights seems to be an issue of law and institutions, it is basically issue of education. It is because the most certain method of institutionalization of a certain value or rule to the whole society is to educate and internalize the value and to make it a rule for the whole society.
To perform human rights education properly, we need to focus on human rights education and teach the duty and responsibilities of the people to enjoy their human rights in the society in full scale. In other words, we need to change the education from the one emphasizing the duty and responsibilities only to the one balancing the education of the rights and the duty. In the level of the education, we need to deal with concrete rights and responsibilities that individuals enjoy and practice in everyday life.
As a matter of fact, human rights education should be given not only in moral subject but also all other subjects. However, it is very difficult to realize it in the reality of the school. Therefore, it is efficient to give human rights education in the Moral subject, which is the nearest to human rights education in the contents and the goal. Human rights education is not new to Moral subject. Human rights education is already in the middle of the subject. Human rights education should be given integrating cognitive, emotional and behavioral areas. Respect for others as well as rights should be emphasized, too. All the elements should be contained in the educational course. It is an important task to develop various human rights programs to apply them to moral subject classes.
To activate the human rights education, we discussed how to activate human rights education in the integrated way applying Discussion Method, Role Play Method and Service Activity Learning Method. The purpose of this study is to let the students approach to human rights issue more closely through the integrated approach.
As human rights are related to all the processes of the life, the contents that human rights education can contain are wide and diverse. In this sense, human rights education has the multi-disciplinary characteristics. Human rights education should be given in the Moral subject classes as the goal of the human rights education is consistent with the goal of the Moral subject to nurture the virtues not only for individuals but also for home, school, nation, people and world community. Besides, there is possibility to expand the issue of human rights from the personal perspective to the perspective of the community.
Although this study should be able to induce the achievements as the method to activate the human rights education, we restrict the scope of this study by applying theoretical approach to human rights and human rights education, and theory, contents and the method of human rights education to Moral subject and leave the actual application through field study to the next studies in the future.