Education Denied

Zusatztext Anyone who cares about the right of every child to education should read this book. Policy makers, directors of international financial institutions, teachers, parents and students will be enlightened and challenged. No sacred cows are exempt from scrutiny. As she has done in her reports as UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Katarina Tomasevski reveals the inconsistencies in the policies and practices than not only deny access to education but also result in discrimination. The right to education is the bridge to enjoyment of all other human rights Informationen zum Autor Katarina Tomasevski is Professor of International Law and International Relations at Lund University and External Lecturer at the Centre for African Studies of Copenhagen University. Educated at the University of Zagreb and Harvard Law School, her teaching experience spans all regions and includes professional training courses in human rights mainstreaming.She is currently Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. This role has involved conceptualizing the right to education, carrying out human rights missions to individual countries to assess problems and prospects, investigating alleged violations of the right to education, and promoting rights-based education at all levels (from the local to the global) of policy-making.Katarina Tomasevski has conducted major cross-national research projects, including on the fate of imprisoned children, the human rights dimensions of HIV/AIDS, and the application of international human rights safeguards for women in different regions and countries.She has published extensively in English and Spanish and her books have been translated into French, Japanese and Chinese. Her books include:Responding to Human Rights Violations 1946-1999 (Kluwer Law International, 2000) Between Sanctions and Elections (Pinter Publishers/Cassell, 1997)Foreigners in Prison (HEUNI, 1994)Human Rights in Population Policies (SIDA, 1994)Women & Human Rights (UN/NGLS and Zed Books, 1993). Klappentext 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. Vorwort International Education Policy ProgramThis contribution to the global educational debate and policymaking highlights the adverse impacts on children and young people of exclusion from effective formal education. It reviews the emerging commitment to universal education and the difficult history of trying to give it effect since 1950. Zusammenfassung International Education Policy Program Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 t...

Product details

• Authors: K. Tomasevski, Katarina Tomasevski
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2003
• EAN: 9781842772515
• ISBN: 978-1-84277-251-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 233 mm x 12 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system