Human Rights Education and post-conventional morality

Abstract

What are the rational structures necessary to understand the principles that organize the discourse on human rights and that can support the logical-moral construction of Human Rights Education procedures? To respond to this problem, the present article takes as its object the development of standards of moral rationality from a kohlbergian perspective, taking into account the moral logic underlying human rights, using bibliographic-documentary research as a methodology based on narrative literature review techniques and aims to demonstrate the need to base Human Rights Education on post-conventional standards of moral cognition. After a brief description of the scenario of attacks promoted by bolsonarism against human rights and the Democratic State of Law, Piaget and Kohlberg's theories on the development of moral rationality are characterized, in general terms, and after exploring some limits and possibilities of kohlbergian research concludes that this provides Human Rights Education with an indispensable foundation as it reveals that the discourse on human rights is only adequately decoded and therefore understandable to the extent that it is anchored in a moral rationality post-conventional.