Human Rights Education:A Call for Inclusion in Teacher Education Program

The concept of human rights has evolved over the years and now got hold of a rationality of human kind getting accepted and actualized. They are a kind of grammar which one needs to recognize to invest human kind with dignity, equity, existence and non-exploitative social justice. Thereby human rights education has gained importance in the current context. Sabine Horenberg (2002) argues that human rights education should become an integral part of general education Human rights education is important for everyone and it is the safest, surest and cheapest way to a knowledgeable and enlightened society through the medium of teachers. This leads to a major task of teacher education. The paper is exploring the inclusion of human rights education in teacher educational program.