Avaliação da compreensão de direitos humanos por estudantes universitários

• Autor(a) principal: Silva , Paloma Barbosa da
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório do Centro Universitário Braz Cubas
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/handle/123456789/2311
• topic: Direitos humanos; Educação; Psicologia social; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The present paper aimed to evaluate the understanding of Human Rights by university students, it was a descriptive and qualitative field research. The sample of 45 students was characterized as non-probabilistic, by quota, selected from the snowball sampling. Undergraduate students aged 18 to 59 years participated. The instrument used was a questionnaire in two stages, sociodemographic and understanding about Human Rights, created by the researcher. It was answered in a self-administered and individual manner. The study was accomplished following the ethical aspects of resolution 466/12, which regulates research involving human beings. Data analysis was performed using the SPSS statistical package and Bardin content analysis technique (2016). Descriptive results indicated that majority's sample was made up of women (73.3%), 82.2% aged 18 to 29years; the area of knowledge that stood out the most was health sciences with 28.9% of the sample and socioeconomic levels that presented the most were medium and medium-low with 40% each of the sample. It was found that majority's sample has a diverse and positive understanding of having Rights, that there is a median understanding of Human Rights on the part of students, that there is a difference in academic and daily discourse on Human Rights, that there is a positive consensus on the importance of talk about Human Rights and that institutions have shortcomings in teaching these Rights. Thus, bringing abetter comprehension about students' understanding of Human Rights, contributing tofuture studies on this topic.