Thématique N°9

Education a matter of law (2001)

This issue proposes a series of discussions on the right to education. In the past as well as the present, this right has produced mixed results. The will to enforce it universally has struggled outside the framework of a few righteous intentions which crown large international conferences. The texts within this issue stray from the mainstream positions that are already known and which have also produced mixed results. Instead, they shed a more modern and long-term perspective on the political, social, institutional and educational conditions as well as the directions which either hinder or encourage the fruition of the right to education.

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Summary

• • Introduction by Monique Prindezis
• • A Rights Approach to Education by Kitty Arambulo
  • The Right to Education : Discourse and Reality, by Jean Hénaire
  • Creating the Conditions for Learning about Democracy. Reflections on the Practise of Law in the Classroom and School, by Bernard Defrance
  • The Right to Education : A Reflection from the Perspective of the Critical Paradigm and Human Rights Education, by Abraham Magendzo
• • Teaching Rules at School and the Right to Education, by Véronique Truchot
• • Conditions Favorable to the Realization of the Right to Education : Issues and Implications for Aboriginal Peoples by Charlotte Henay