Human rights in the field of comparative education / edited by Heidi Biseth and Halla B. Holmarsdottir.

• Superior document: Comparative and international education ; v.21
• TeilnehmendeR: Biseth, Heidi.; Holmarsdottir, Halla B.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed. 2013.
• Language: English
• Series: Comparative and international education (Sense Publishers) ; v.21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

There is no single answer to the question: what are human rights? The answer depends on whom you ask. Several of the papers presented at Fourteenth World Congress of Comparative Education held at Bog˘aziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2010 discussed issues related to human rights from a comparative education viewpoint. The nine papers presented in this book spans from policy analysis to practices in classrooms. They include analyses of human rights from a regional or country perspective, including Greece, Jordan, the Latin American region, Morocco, Northern Ireland, Portugal, the UK, the US, and Turkey. In facilitating a clarification of the ways in which we understand and talk about human rights in the field of comparative education, the editors have analysed and visualized the chapter contributions using Marie-Bénédicte Dembour’s categorization of human rights discourses. This is a fruitful exercise as it unravels the fact that we do not always mean the same thing when talking about human rights and also sheds light on the issues within human rights to which we are silent, issues that we should conceivably be discussing. Our engagement in human rights seems to focus on using these rights as leverage to promote our arguments about education, not engaging in a more philosophical debate about human rights. Human rights can be used as an ethical lingua franca and thus providing a fertile ground for nuancing our understanding of human rights. Since we experience a huge gap between morality and reality, an engagement in the ethical perspectives of human rights can help us on the way to closing this gap.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Heidi Biseth and Halla B. Holmarsdottir -- Human Rights in the Field of Comparative Education / Heidi Biseth and Halla B. Holmarsdottir -- The Educational Rights of Asylumseeking and Refugee Children Within the Neo-Liberal State and Inclusive Schools in the UK / Madeleine Arnot , Halleli Pinson and Mano Candappa -- The Protection of Children’s Rights in Latin America / Paulí Dávila and Luis M Naya -- The Right to Education in Latin America (2005-2010) / Ana María Montero Pedrera -- Tensions Between National Citizenship and Human Rights / Vedat Sevincer and Heidi Biseth -- Interpreting Children’s Rights / Catarina Tomás and Mariana Dias -- Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Human Rights / Susan J. Courey and Pam LePage -- Moroccan Children’s Rights in an Educational Space / Mina Afkir -- The Role of Inter-School Collaboration in Promoting Inter-Group Relations / Karen Carlisle and Joanne Hughes -- Refugee Education as a Gauge of Liberal Multiculturalism / Bruce Anthony Collet -- Contributors / Heidi Biseth and Halla B. Holmarsdottir.