SOME APPROACHES TO HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION - IN RELATION TO THE JAPANESE CHARACTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION -
SOME APPROACHES TO HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION - IN RELATION TO THE JAPANESE CHARACTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION -

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to propose appropriate perspectives to human rights education (HRE) by showing approaches for analyzing the characteristics of Japanese HRE and by considering where HRE is situated in relation to relevant educational fields. HRE has a close relationship with peace education, development education, intercultural education and the international education program of UNESCO. The methodology of HRE has been discussed in the fields of knowledge and skills “associated with understanding and supporting human rights”. Since the middle of 1990s for Japan and also for some members of the UN, HRE has been developing as a newly established terminology. The Japanese HRE, greatly influenced by Dowa Education (education for the integration of Japanese minorities), has been weak in the legal area of human rights. As a result, it has a strong orientation to equality as a relational concept and from a “sociological” perspective, in which human rights problems are grasped as mentality problems.

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