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Education as a Human Right: Principles for a Universal Entitlement to Learning

Education as a Human Right: Principles for a Universal Entitlement to Learning

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Publisher's Synopsis

Education is widely recognized as a fundamental human right, yet the nature of the right remains unclear. Is it an entitlement to go to school, to acquire particular forms of knowledge or develop particular skills or attributes? And why exactly is education so important that we might defend all people's right to it? This book provides a much-needed exploration of this key contemporary issue. Highlighting limitations in the approaches of both the Education for All initiative and existing international law, the book presents a radical new vision of how the right can be understood. As well as basic education, there are discussions of higher and lifelong education, of human rights education, and of the intersection of rights-based approaches with others such Amartya Sen's 'capabilities'. The work serves as a stirring defense of the universal right to education against instrumental conceptions of learning, the inactivity of national governments and the abrogation of responsibility of the international community.

Book information

ISBN: 9781472585073
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Pub date:
Edition: NIPPOD
DEWEY: 379.26
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 330g
Height: 236mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 12mm