Abstract:

The climate of the schools that the students are educated in is very important for developing sensitivity to human rights among them. Therefore, school climate must be respectful for the values of human rights. The aim of this research is to find out the opinions of high school teachers about school climate in terms of sensitivity to human rights between the relationships of “teacher-teacher”, “teacher-administrator”, “teacher-student”, “teacher-other personnel” and “teacher-parent”. The study group was composed of 10 high school teachers who were volunteer to join the research in Ankara in 2012 – 2013 Academic year. In this study qualitative research method was used and the data was gathered by focus group method. Teachers’ opinions were evaluated in terms of subcategories as “To express the opinions freely or not”, “To respect to the others’ opinions or not” and “To make discrimination or not”. It was found that teachers think that the schools’ climate are mostly based on human rights in the dimensions of “To express the opinions freely or not” and “To respect to the others’ opinions or not” but they think that they are subjected to indirect discrimination by both colleagues and administrators

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