This article employs a content analysis of 220 Course Pedagogical Projects (CPPs) from public and private institutions to examine the incorporation of Human Rights Education (HRE) in the curricula of Pedagogy courses in Brazil. The findings indicate that HRE persists in a marginalized state, frequently addressed in a fragmented, elective, and non-interdisciplinary manner, exhibiting an absence of centrality in the realm of teacher education. The research employs a mixed-methods approach, drawing on critical and decolonial theoretical frameworks. The analysis reveals that equality, liberty, and identity are the most frequently cited principles, while key dimensions such as ethno-racial, gender, affective-sexual, and more-than-human relations are rarely addressed. These patterns are interpreted as symptoms of a formation project that remains grounded in a universal myth of humanity that suppresses other ways of being and knowing. The article proposes decolonial HRE as an ethical and insurgent practice, advocating for a teacher education that values dignity as a relational, political, and planetary principle.
Souza et al. (Thu,) studied this question.