EDUCATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE TEACHING OF HISTORY: POSSIBILITIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CULTURE OF PEACE.
School. Violence.Human Rights.History Teaching.
The present research project aims to focus on a case study in Joao Hildo de Carvalho Furtado Municipal School in Fortaleza, seeking to investigate violence in the school environment. The chosen methodology in this project was the quantitative approachwithin an “anthropological perspective” of the participant observation. In this respect, History teaching, through Education in Human Rights by means of PNEDH-3 or Third National Programme of Human Rights, enables new ways to combat violence in the school environment. Therefore, some history specific contents are privileged in relation to education and human rights, which turns it into an “Education for the never again”.In that case,creating a more peaceful culture, intending to construct a true human and democratic society.