Abstract:
The school indeed has a large influence in the level of knowledge and
understanding by the students of the human rights concepts and ideas, with 84% of them
ranking the school as their first major source of human rights information. This is
supported by the fact that these selected public elementary schools do engage in human
rights education through its teachers with teaching systems reflective of the
consciousness of the importance of human rights.
There is. in general, a high level of knowledge and understanding of human rights
concepts and ideas among the students. This may probably be attributed to the quality of
the teaching system employed by the teachers. The content or the educational knowledge,
which is characterized as concentrated upon the four major learning areas, is now
modified or even transformed to educational knowledge with human rights content- with
the value fbr human rights concepts and ideals. The method or means of transmission is
largely through the "practical" or "experiential" aspect of teaching- of creating a
classroom environment where the students get to practice and experience what has been
taught objectively about human rights.
This study then claims, that as given by this case, the teaching system employed
by the schools at the classroom level, is indeed effective in bringing about awareness and
basic understanding of human rights, and thus effective in contributing to the attainment
of the goal of HRE.
