This research report addresses the issue of Human Rights Education in Basic Education teacher
formation. The proposal starts from the question about what formation in Human Rights do
Elementary School teachers in Palmas/TO have? The objective is to understand the formation
in Human Rights of teachers of Elementary School in Palmas/TO, in order to propose
pedagogical practices for continuing education in this area. The interest on the subject is related
to the teaching practice in Basic Education, as well as the constant practical concerns about the
multiple demands related to Human Rights today. It is understood that this concern is not an
isolated phenomenon, but something present in Brazilian society, in the educational routine and
in the teaching practice in general. The theoretical and empirical study is based on the
hermeneutic phenomenological method, with a quantitative-qualitative approach. The primary
data collection took place through a semi-structured interview with elementary school teachers
from four schools in Palmas, using the methodological technique of snowball sampling. The
data treatment was based on the hermeneutic analysis of the content to reveal understandings,
conceptions and teaching practices on the subject of Education in Human Rights. The study
made it possible to understand the teaching experience, such as the desire for better formation
to deal with issues related to Human Rights in practice. Based on this reality, a strategy of
continued teacher education was proposed, in the form of a Lato Sensu Postgraduated Program,
with a curriculum organized from the cycle of teaching through research and guided by the
interdisciplinarity of Human Rights in Luther's pedagogy and in the liberating and emancipator
pedagogy of Paulo Freire.
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