基本説明
A new approach to the search for universal education drawing on the literature on education, development process, and human rights.
Full Description
This unique contribution to global educational debate and policymaking aims to highlight the adverse impacts on children and young people of not having access to effective formal education. The author is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education. In reviewing the emerging commitment to universal education and the difficult history of trying to give effect to this commitment, particularly in the past half century, the author draws on three bodies of literature - on education specifically, on the development process generally, and on human rights. Her intention is to develop an approach which shifts the debate from sheer numbers of pupils, funding mechanisms and the recent preoccupation with market forces to a deeper discussion about what the right to education should really comprise, how governments and other institutions actually go about, or fail in, giving effect to it on a universal and non-discriminatory basis, and what happens to young people within the educational process itself.
The book is an indispensable tour d'horizon of the history and problems encountered in the global quest for universal education. It also points up the discrimination and abuses of power this quest has involved and what needs now to be done.
Contents
Introduction
PART 1: WHY THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION?
1. Why Do We Need Safeguards Against Denials and Abuses of Education by Governments
2. The Economics of the Right to Education
3. The Promise of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
4. The Core Contents of the Right to Education
PART 2: RUPTURING THE GLOBAL CONSENSUS
5. Enter The World Bank: Changing the Parameters of the Debate
6. Impoverishment of Public Education and Its Cost
7. Unwilling, Unable or Unlike-Minded? Creators of Global Education Strategy
8. Painfully Visible Loss of the Right to Education: Transfigured University
PART 3: PUTTING HUMAN RIGHTS BACK IN
9. Exposing and Opposing Exclusion
10. Revisiting Segregated Education
11. Rights-Based Education as Pathway to Gender Equality
12. Human Rights Safeguards In Education
13. Summing Up: Human Rights through Education
