The present study examined effects of human rights education activities using
bullying fairy tales on young children's human rights attitudes and self-esteem.
The subjects of the study were a total of 40 five years old. children. Twenty of
children were assigned to an experimental group and the other 20 children were
assigned to a control group. The experimental group participated in human
rights education activities using bullying fairy tales 21 times, 3 times a week for
7 weeks and the control group participated in Nurui curriculum activities during
the same periods.. The study results indicated that the experimental group
showed more improvement in their human rights attitudes and self-esteem than
the control group. Therefore human rights education activities using the bullying
fairy tales used in this study might be an effective educational mothod to
enhence young children’s human rights attitudes and self-esteem.