Education as protection: An experience of human rights education in the corners of Brazil

Despite the ostensible positivation normative demands for human rights after World War II, Western society still bitter the difficulty of realization of these rights, which creates a wide gulf between what is said and what is done about human rights. Traditionally, there is a constant search for a remedial and punitive approach when there is concrete violation of these rights, while not common to see public policies for the prevention of the violation. Especially in contexts of inequality and injustice brutally real, as is the case throughout Latin America and Brazil, the lack of preventive policies and the pursuit of models imported from the wealthy north end to intrude further realization of human rights. Thus, it is urgent to search for a pre-violation protection these rights, in order to avoid the penalty as the only post violation protective perspective. In this sense, an effective protection would be in the prevention of human rights, which necessarily passes through a human rights education, since the formation of more fundamental. From this perspective, the Center for the Study of Law Enforcement of Human Rights (NETPDH), a research group tied to UNESP, Franca-SP, Brazil, and registered with the CAPES, chose to conduct a groundbreaking work. In two municipalities in the interior of São Paulo, which are Ribeirão Corrente and Franca, is a project developed human rights education, with students and teachers in public schools statewide and local. Through a pedagogy of autonomy, undergraduate students, postgraduate students, researchers and professors connected to the NETPDH conduct workshops in two schools, one each in the cities mentioned, in which human rights issues are addressed in a dialogic and playful work. The intention to participate in this thematic group is sharing experiences in order to enhance our way of working.