Values and Human Rights Education in Teachers’ Training at the University of Costa Rica

Abstract

This article presents the results of the research "Education in values and human rights in the study plans for teachers training at the University of Costa Rica", whose main objective was to analyze the incorporation of education in values and human rights in teacher training curricula. To address the objective the methodology proposed is based on a mixed research method, where questionnaire and focus group were used as information gathering techniques, aimed at students and teachers of education careers. The results show that although various contents on human rights and values are present in the curricula for teacher training, implicitly and explicitly, they must be strengthened. There is an urgent need to include explicit content on values and human rights in teacher training, review curricula, offer specific courses on human rights in careers, train university teachers, mainstream the curriculum with the human rights axis. human and values, promote greater contact of students with the various realities, observations, and practices, and analyze their own behavior on the subject.