ABSTRACT
This chapter examines teachers' and student teachers' understandings of human rights, citizenship and identities, relating these both to their formal teacher education and to their experiences of teaching. It focuses on a group of white British students following a primary initial teacher education course. The chapter also examines the changing perceptions of a broad range of European students who chose to spend part of their higher education studying in another European country. It explores the personal and professional identities of British teachers from black and ethnic minority communities. European citizenship is part of a mixing of cultures and to have more than one country. For many students European citizenship simply means the personal right to travel freely within Europe, for the purposes of work or study. The black and ethnic minority teachers did not argue explicitly for human rights education but nevertheless saw social justice as a central goal. People from black and ethnic minority communities remain underrepresented in teaching.
