RT Article
T1 An exploratory study of human rights knowledge: a sample of Kindergarten and elementary school pre-service teachers in Spain
JF Human rights review
VO 14
IS 3
SP 213
OP 230
A1 Messina, Claudia
A1 Jacott, Liliana
A2 Jacott, Liliana
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/766590275
AB This study aims to explore the level of information and knowledge 150 Spanish kindergarten and elementary school teachers in pre-service training have about human rights. We compared two groups of students: students with no specific training and students with specific training (the students with specific training study with the new training teaching programme that includes a compulsory subject related to citizenship education). The contents are organized around three thematic areas. Human rights are included in the first area ‘Basic concepts to promote equality and participation in Elementary Education’; the other two areas are: ‘Learning to participate at Elementary School’ and ‘Building a civil school that promotes equality and participation at Elementary School’. It is a one semester subject with 3 h of teaching per week. The main hypothesis is that a specific training on human rights will lead to an important improvement not only in student’s level of knowledge but also in the way they categorize this specific content. We have administered a questionnaire designed for the study. In general, our results show that students of both groups have a basic and limited knowledge about human rights. The group with specific training shows a higher level of knowledge than the other group and a different way of organizing it. This would go in the direction of other studies of supporting and reinforcing the inclusion of specific training on human rights during the initial teacher training programmes at the university.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 229-230
K1 Citizenship education
K1 human rights education
K1 Teacher Training
K1 primary education
DO 10.1007/s12142-013-0267-1