Human Rights Education from a Critical and Decolonial Perspective

Loving Pedagogy and the Ethics of Emotions in Confronting the Culture of Hate

Abstract

The article analyzes the culture of hate as a structure fueled by the meaning-void generated by capitalism’s unfulfilled promise and by a logic of scapegoating, amplified by digital architectures and the crisis of representative democracies. It traces the trajectory of human rights education (HRE), advances a critical decolonial perspective organized around five axes - ethno-racial, gender, affective-sexual, more-than-human relations, and an ethics of emotions - and argues that loving pedagogy and an ethics of emotions work as political practices capable of reshaping educational relations. It examines impacts on brazilian schools, underscores the centrality of teacher education, and proposes HRE transversality as a precondition for curricula and environments grounded in care, solidarity, and resistance.