ABSTRACT
Norma Tarrow has provided an overview of many aspects of the teaching of human rights in schools. She rightly draws attention to the inadequacy of teachers’ preparation for teaching human rights (this volume, p. 32), a point made also in Human Rights Teaching (1986, p. 2), and to Torney-Purta’s plea for more research to find out what young people know about human rights and what their misconceptions are (this volume, p. 33). What they know, or understand, what their misconceptions are, will reflect both what they learn from the media and what they are taught. I take it as axiomatic that human rights and the values they represent should be taught and need to be taught.
