Educar na infância em/ com/ para os Direitos Humanos

Abstract

This essay aims to reflect on the meanings of early childhood education in/with/for human rights. It performs a critical analysis with a qualitative approach of documents that deal with human rights and follows with a theoretical problematization about early childhood education. It also articulates with comic strips of the character Mafalda, which asks questions about issues that frequently violate human rights. To advance in the understanding of the theme, Benevides (2007) provokes theoretical contributions, presenting three understandings of human rights education: permanence, continuity and globality; cultural change; and the promotion of human values. It is concluded that the conversion of reflective processes that permeate the various educational practices and strategies that make up the formation of children is a possible way out of the affronts to human rights inside and outside the institutions of early childhood education – understanding education as an ethical-political bet, inspired by Arendt (2019).