Human Rights Awareness of teachers and teacher Educators: An Investigation

there is universal concern within the international community about the contribution of human rights education in ensuring the protection and realization of human rights. Over the past fifty years global events and people’s experiences have given the quest for ensuring peace through human rights awareness and education a major thrust. International documents on human rights education published during this period especially those of the united nations form an important part of the worldwide educational discourses indicating a progression towards the establishment of a world education system. India has adopted multipronged strategy for ensuring human rights for its citizens. On the one hand, it incorporated into its Constitution as Fundamental Rights the various human rights provided for in the 1948 universal declaration of Human Rights (udHR). On the other hand, keeping in view the ethnic diversity and highly divisive society of India, it also practices the policy of protective discrimination for certain traditionally deprived sections of society like the scheduled Castes (sC), scheduled Tribes (sT), as well as girls and disabled persons. Consequently while ensuring ‘equality of opportunity’ in matters relating to appointment to any office under the state, it also follows a reservation policy in education and jobs for various disadvantaged sections of society to ensure their adequate representation in education and service sectors.