Social Wellbeing of Secondary School Students in Relation to Human Rights and Legal Literacy

An Analytical Study

Abstract

Human by virtue of human being possess certain basic and inalienable rights which are commonly known as human rights. We call these rights by other names, also, like fundamental rights, basic rights, inherent rights, natural rights and birth rights etc. All the secondary school students should have favourable awareness about the human rights. They should have sufficient education on the matters related to law and justice. Legal Literacy is very important for the individual to live a better life in the society. These two aspects, Human Rights Awareness and Legal Literacy have direct relationship with Social Wellbeing of an individual. Social Wellbeing involves a person’s relationships with others and how that person communicates, interacts and socializes with other people. It can also relate to how people make friends and whether they have a sense of belonging. All these three variables are very much important when we consider the students at secondary level. This paper presents the Social Wellbeing of Secondary School Students in relation to Human Rights and Legal Literacy. There is wide criticism that many of the students at secondary schools are not having favourable awareness of human rights, many of them are not properly taught with Legal Literacy, and they are unable to maintain Social Wellbeing in their life situations. The present study is intended to identify the secondary school students’ Human Rights Awareness, Legal Literacy and Social Wellbeing and to ascertain whether there is any relationship among these variables. The present study also intended to find out the difference between boys and girls, secondary students from private and government secondary schools, students from rural and urban schools etc. on Human Rights Awareness, Legal Literacy and Social Wellbeing.