Human Rights and Equality in Education: Comparative Perspectives on the Right to Education for Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups

doi:10.46692/9781447337645

Human Rights and Equality in Education

Comparative Perspectives on the Right to Education for Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups

This interdisciplinary collection 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, the balance between religion, culture and education, girls’ right to education and the role of courts.

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Human Rights and Equality in Education

Comparative Perspectives on the Right to Education for Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

Notes on contributors
pp v-viii

Foreword
pp ix-xii

Human rights and equality in education: Introduction
pp 1-8

Part I - The role of public and private actors in education
pp 9-10

one - Public rights and private schools: state accountability for violations of rights in education
pp 11-24

two - The dynamics of regulating low-fee private schools in Kenya
pp 25-44

three - Education at the margins: the potential benefits of private educational initiatives for disadvantaged groups
pp 45-54

Part II - Balancing the right to freedom of religion and culture and the right to education
pp 55-56

four - Calling the farce on minority schools
pp 57-70

five - The challenge of Afrikaans language rights in South African education
pp 71-96

Part III - Gender equality in education: moving beyond access to primary education
pp 97-98

six - Women and education: the right to substantive equality
pp 99-110

seven - Equality and the right to education: let’s talk about sex education
pp 111-128

Part IV - Litigating for quality and equality in education
pp 129-130

eight - Conceptualising and enforcing the right to quality education for minorities and disadvantaged groups: reflections of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity litigation
pp 131-142

nine - From the classroom to the courtroom: litigating education rights in South Africa
pp 143-168

ten - Human rights and equality in education: Conclusion
pp 169-172

Index
pp 173-177

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