A importância do projeto educação em direitos humanos: construindo sujeitos de direitos no Curso de Pedagogia/CE/UFPB – PROLICEN/UFPB (2014-2015) para a formação docente

Abstract

The hereto paper aims a reflection about the history and memories gathered throughout the project Education in Human Rights: building subjects of the Law in the course of Pedagogy/CE/UFPB developed in the calendar years of 2014 and 2015, throughout the first and second semesters. Based on the importance of human rights education and having as a goal to train future educators capable of participating in the process of forming new citizens, conscious of their rights and duties; it was taken under consideration the lectures and citizenship actions performed in classroom and by the project workers during the tryouts. This paper was written based on the subjects’ recalled memories and experiences, of those who participated in the project as part of the class, or by a group of interns and volunteers. As a qualitative research, this work was based on the history and memories of such subjects, which enabled the observation of the importance of this project to the quality advancement of the Pedagogy Course, thus a detailed study of written sources (bibliography and documental) was performed in order to arrive at these conclusions. Amongst the authors studied in this research, we cite: Bobbio (2004), Carvalho (2012), Freire (1983; 2000), Zenaide (2014), and others. Similarly, it was also investigated some legal documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As a result, it is possible to observe the relevance the project had over some subjects who in some way participated in the project, as well as a noticeable change in behavior and actions when facing some personal and academic routine situations. It is also possible to observe that some are now more thoughtful in regard to their rights and duties, empathizing more in relation to others people’s rights, recognizing how relevant education in human rights is and how it affects the academic formation of a docent and also in daily life regarding others, taking under consideration the formation of a human being as a subject of the Law.