Menschenrechtsbildung aus psychologischer Perspektive

Abstract

Human rights education is meant to make people capable of understanding human rights and to enable them to take a stand for their own rights as well as those of others, so that in the long term a human rights culture may develop. Human rights education is understood as a comprehensive task which, apart from communicating knowledge, is meant to stimulate the debate on values and attitudes and to support competencies for action, which are called learning about, by way of and for human rights. From a psychological point of view, the article analyzes in how far human rights education may be implemented as a three-dimensional support of knowledge, values and skills and where, in this respect, it comes to its limits, also regarding the question of the feasibility of an attempted human rights culture. The high expectations connected with human rights education are questioned in order to get a more realistic idea of what human rights education may actually achieve. © VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2012.