Human Rights and Equality in Education: Comparative Perspectives on the Right to Education for Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups
Sandra Fredman, Meghan Campbell, and Helen Taylor
Abstract
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 book 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 ro ... More
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 book 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. The 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.
Keywords:
classroom,
disadvantaged children,
minority children,
human rights,
education,
universal education
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447337638 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2019 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447337638.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Sandra Fredman, editor
Oxford University
Meghan Campbell, editor
University of Birmingham
Helen Taylor, editor
Oxford University
More
Less
