EDUCATION DENIED, Costs and Remedies Katarina Tomasevski This unique contribution to global educational debate and policymaking aims to highlight the adverse impacts on children and young people of not having access to effective formal education. The author is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education. In reviewing the emerging commitment to universal education and the difficult history of trying to give effect to this commitment, particularly in the past half century, the author draws on three bodies of literature: * on education specifically * on development generally * on human rights. Her intention is to develop an approach which shifts the debate from sheer number of pupils, funding mechanisms and the recent preoccupation with market forces to a deeper discussion about what the right to education should really comprise, how governments and other institutions actually go about, or fail in, giving effect to it on a universal and non-discriminatory basis, and what happens to young people within the educational process itself. The book is an indispensable tour d'horizon of the history and problems encountered in the global quest for universal education. It also points up the discrimination and abuses of power this quest has involved and what needs now to be done. Publication March 2003 Hb ISBN 1 84277 250 3 £49.95 $75.00 Pb ISBN a 84277 251 1 £15.95 $25.00 224 Pages To order a copy please contact: sales@zedbooks.demon.co.uk For more information please contact: info@right-to-education.org Right to Education Project for the United Nations Special Rapporteur www.right-to-education.org ======== Global Human Rights Education listserv ======== Send mail intended for the list to <hr-education@hrea.org>. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/markup/maillist.php If you have problems (un)subscribing, contact <owner-hr-education@hrea.org>. **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
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