Human rights in education as prerequisite for human rights education / Katarina Tomasevski

Human rights in education as prerequisite for human rights education / Katarina Tomasevski

Lund, Sweden: Raoul Wallenberg Institute, 2001

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Right to education primers; No. 4

This text by the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education is devoted to the orientation, contents and methods of education from a human rights perspective. “It is inspired by the paucity of information on what happens in schools and universities, which reflects a widespread tendency to discuss education only in quantitative terms. Making human rights education meaningful necessitates ensuring that the rights of learners and teachers are recognized and protected, and yet, this is often not so. This publication illustrates the scope of existing problems through a selection of real-life problems from all corners of the world. It aims at raising questions rather than offering answers simply because such questions ought to be raised but have thus far evaded scrutiny. Discussing human rights in education is thus not luxury but necessity. Without a clear vision of the inter-relationship between the right to education and rights in education, promoting human rights education or human rights through education remains impossible.”

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