TY - JOUR AB - This paper is a discussion of human rights education in China. Three major channels for dissemination of legal knowledge and shaping of values are examined - moral education, formal legal education and informal public legal education - against the background of the UN definition of human rights education and in relation to different approaches to human rights education discussed in the first section of the article. DA - 2006-01-10 DO - 10.4119/jsse-377 LA - eng PY - 2006-01-10 SN - 1618-5293 T2 - JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education TI - Creative Tensions and the Legitimacy of Human Rights Education - A Discussion on Moral, Legal and Human Rights Education in China UR - https://doi.org/10.4119/jsse-377 Y2 - 2026-04-19T15:56:23 ER -