Democracy and education in human rights in Brazil: resistance and possibilities for the defense of the humanist platform in the national and global political scene

Abstract

This article deals with Human Rights Education - EDH and its development in the Brazilian educational sphere. Formally proposed in Brazil by the PNEDH - National Human Rights Education Plan, EDH is incompatible with the political platform of the extreme right rising nationally and internationally. In the school environment it can also be considered problematic by non-participatory and productivist management models, since it promotes the explicit questioning of pillars such as hierarchy, democracy and freedom among students, besides not being among the subjects traditionally required in educational assessments. Stands out from this study that the defense of the perspective of democratic management aligned with the human rights foundations present in the postgraduate programs of national public universities indicate that these are privileged spaces for reflection on the initiatives aimed at the dissemination of HRE to educational managers and educators in general, in order to capillarize their themes and concretely help the PNEDH´s implementation without neglecting the humanist perspective intrinsic to the proposal.