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Zusatztext Tristan McCowan provides an excellent genealogy of current debates surrounding the right to education. By examining both the ‘right to education’ and ‘rights within education,’ and by coupling these analyses with diverse global examples, the author offers an extremely compelling and useful text for scholars of human rights, international and comparative education, and international development broadly. Informationen zum Autor Tristan McCowan is Professor of International Education at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He is the author of Rethinking Citizenship Education (2009), Education as a Human Right (2013), and Higher Education For and Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (2019). He is editor of Compare journal. Klappentext 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. Vorwort A comprehensive reassessment of the idea that all humans are entitled to learning, examining existing conceptualisations and proposing a new basis for Education for All. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Introduction: The Global Education Landscape2. The Right to Education in International Law 3. Justifications for the Right to Education 4. A Right to What? Inputs, Outcomes and Processes 5. Upholding Human Rights within Education 6. Is there a Universal Right to Higher Education? 7. Contributions of the Capabilities Approach 8. Learning Human Rights 9. Principles and Implications References Index...
