Rethinking Human Rights Education in a Philo-sophical Context

Although human rights education has existed in schools for more than twenty years, youth’s tendencies towards violence and alienation continue without slowing down. At this juncture, it is confronted with a problem of whether Human Rights Education is duly performed or not. This research pur-poses to discuss the condition of human rights education in Turkey and why the education must be improved referring to the problem. Within this framework primarily what kind of connection between human rights and education will be clari-fied and the importance of human rights education will be add-ressed. After these, the condition of human rights perception and education in our country will be tried to analyze with a philosophical perspective. In this context, causes of not duly performing human rights education will be questioned and it will be aimed to make some points. In the last instance, it will be tried to give some suggestions towards the improvement of human rights education in the context of stated problems.