Human Rights within Education: Assessing the Justifications

Autor/in	McCowan, Tristan
Titel	Human Rights within Education: Assessing the Justifications
Quelle	In: Cambridge Journal of Education, 42 (2012) 1, S.67-81 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-764X
DOI	10.1080/0305764X.2011.651204
Schlagwörter	Civil Rights; Learning Processes; Access to Education; Equal Education; Civil Rights Legislation; Educational Legislation; Childrens Rights; Discourse Analysis; Social Attitudes; Social Change; Educational Practices; Social Values; Values Clarification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Learning process; Lernprozess; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Private law; Bürgerliches Recht; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; 'Children''s rights'; Kindesrecht; Diskursanalyse; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Sozialer Wandel; Bildungspraxis; Sozialer Wert; Wertbewusstsein
Abstract	While respect for human rights has long been endorsed as a goal of education, only recently has significant attention been paid to the need to incorporate rights within educational processes. Current support for human rights within education, however, has a variety of motivations. This paper provides a theoretical exploration of these diverse justifications, leading to a normative proposal. A distinction is made between status-based and instrumental approaches. Human rights within education can be justified from a status-based perspective on the basis of their indivisibility, meaning that the right to education must not entail an infringement of other rights. Yet while rights-respecting environments are important sites of learning, instrumental justifications can be a source of concern, if the goals in question are irrelevant or inimical to the enhancement of rights. An argument, therefore, is put forward for a simultaneous realisation of embodiment of and opportunity for learning about human rights. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10