Human Rights and Equality in Education : : Comparative Perspectives on the Right to Education for Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups / / ed. by Sandra Fredman, Meghan Campbell, Helen Taylor.

Thousands of children from minority and disadvantaged groups will never cross the threshold of a classroom. What can human rights contribute to the struggle to ensure that every learner is able to access high quality education? This brilliant interdisciplinary collection explores how a human rights...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 1 Black and White
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Other title:Front Matter --
Contents --
Notes on contributors --
Foreword --
Human rights and equality in education: Introduction --
The role of public and private actors in education --
Public rights and private schools: state accountability for violations of rights in education --
The dynamics of regulating low-fee private schools in Kenya --
Education at the margins: the potential benefits of private educational initiatives for disadvantaged groups --
Balancing the right to freedom of religion and culture and the right to education --
Calling the farce on minority schools --
The challenge of Afrikaans language rights in South African education --
Gender equality in education: moving beyond access to primary education --
Women and education: the right to substantive equality --
Equality and the right to education: let’s talk about sex education --
Litigating for quality and equality in education --
Conceptualising and enforcing the right to quality education for minorities and disadvantaged groups: reflections on the Campaign for Fiscal Equity litigation --
From the classroom to the courtroom: litigating education rights in South Africa --
Human rights and equality in education: Conclusion --
Index
Summary:Thousands of children from minority and disadvantaged groups will never cross the threshold of a classroom. What can human rights contribute to the struggle to ensure that every learner is able to access high quality education? This brilliant interdisciplinary collection explores how a human rights perspective offers new insights and tools into the current obstacles to education. It examines the role of private actors, the need to hold states to account for the quality of education, how to strike a balance between religion, culture and education, the innovative responses needed to guarantee girls’ right to education and the role of courts. This unique book draws together contributors who have been deeply involved in this field from both developing and developed countries which enriches the understanding and remedial approaches to tackle current obstacles to universal education.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781447337645
9783111196664
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Sandra Fredman, Meghan Campbell, Helen Taylor.