The Effect of Human Rights Education on Youth Human Rights Violation Behavior

Abstract

This study tried to empirically verify the relationship between adolescents' experience in human rights education and human rights abuse experiences such as hate discrimination. Human rights education among teenagers can have a positive effect not only on understanding the concept of human rights or improving human rights sensitivity, but also on recognizing and respecting differences from others through human rights education. While research on human rights education is centered on educational measures or effects that need to be improved, little research has been conducted on the effect of the results of education and the behavior of adolescents' human rights violations. Therefore, this study selected the second data of the “Children and Youth Human Rights Survey” conducted by the Korea Youth Policy Institute from 2018 to 2020, and used data from 9,017 in 2018, 9,240 in 2019, and 8,346 in 2020 for the final analysis. Descriptive statistical analysis, frequency analysis, cross-analysis, and logistic regression analysis were conducted year by year using the statistical program SPSS 28.0 ver. According to the study, the three-year human rights education experience exceeded 70% in 2018, while less than 50% in 2019 and 2020, but the results of the study showed that it was a positive (+) influence on the human rights violations of adolescents with human rights education experience. In other words, based on the research results, it is necessary to check the actual institutions and programs of youth human rights education based on the internalization of actual human rights education contents and operational methods to expect the effect of education. In particular, school violence is caused by mischief, and the beginning of the mischief can be caused by acts of human rights violations such as discrimination and hatred. Therefore, it is expected that human rights education that can contribute to preventing such acts of human rights violations will be used as basic data for the implementation of human rights education.