ABSTRACT
Human rights can be understood as a set of principles operating on the formalized plane of language and also in a non-formalized system of meanings. This article presents a proposal for human rights education based on storytelling and focused on school education for young people. This proposition was elaborated within the scope of the research group on language and human rights (IEL/Unicamp) and based pedagogically and didactically on the thought of Hannah Arendt, it aims to expose a viable political teaching project for high school Portuguese classes, not ignoring the interdisciplinary potential in these so-called "exercises in imagination" in writing. Our proposal, therefore, intends to promote reflections, in the classroom, about the juridical, the philosophical and the subjective conceptions of human rights and social forms of difference and universality, as well as stimulating, in writing, inversions of perspective, adopting the "me" as the utterer of an "other". Such inversions would work as a propitious mechanism to sensitization and to the search for an "enlarged mentality," more aware of otherness and capable to apprehend the individual and collective dilemmas of the contemporary world.
Keywords:
human rights; education; writing practice; storytelling; Hannah Arendt