ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the different conceptions of human rights expressed by participants in the research and how they appear to conceptualise the idea of human rights education (HRE). It describes the structure and practice of HRE that is observed, and the processes that are adopted, all formative of the evident HRE discourse. The chapter outlines the historical and contemporary sociopolitical context and how historical visions from the leadership of Julius K Nyerere influenced how HRE discourse has developed in Tanzania. It explains the findings from the fieldwork that reveal a predominantly technical HRE discourse from non government organizations (NGO) in community-based settings, where human rights are often expressed as predetermined facts and human rights education practice becomes transmission of those facts. The four NGOs in the study are the Legal and Human Rights Centre, the Women's Legal Aid Centre, the Global Network for Religions of All Children and Kiota for Women's Health and Development.
