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Human Rights in the Field of Comparative Education

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Editors:
  1. Heidi Biseth

    1. Buskerud University College, Norway

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  2. Halla B. Holmarsdottir

    1. Oslo University College, Norway

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Part of the book series: Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices (CIEDV, volume 21)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Human Rights in the Field of Comparative Education

    • Heidi Biseth, Halla B. Holmarsdottir
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Educational Rights of Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Children within the Neo-Liberal State and Inclusive Schools in the UK

    • Madeleine Arnot, Halleli Pinson, Mano Candappa
    Pages 23-29

  4. The Protection of Childrenā€™s Rights in Latin America

    • PaulĆ­ DĆ”vila, Luis MĀŖ Naya
    Pages 41-46

  5. The Right to Education in Latin America (2005-2010)

    • Ana MarĆ­a Montero Pedrera
    Pages 57-61

  6. Tension between National Citizenship and Human Rights

    • Vedat Sevincer, Heidi Biseth
    Pages 73-80

  7. Interpreting Childrenā€™s Rights

    • Catarina TomĆ”s, Mariana Dias
    Pages 81-95

  8. Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Human Rights

    • Susan J. Courey, Pam LePage
    Pages 97-108

  9. Moroccan Childrenā€™s Rights in an Educational Space

    • Mina Afkir
    Pages 109-123

  10. The Role of Inter-School Collaboration in Promoting Inter-Group Relations

    • Karen Carlisle, Joanne Hughes
    Pages 125-145

  11. Refugee Education as a Gauge of Liberal Multiculturalism

    • Bruce Anthony Collet
    Pages 147-170

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 171-176
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About this book

There is no single answer to the question: what are human rights? The answer depends on whom you ask. Several of the papers presented at Fourteenth World Congress of Comparative Education held at BogĖ˜aziƧi University in Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2010 discussed issues related to human rights from a comparative education viewpoint. The nine papers presented in this book spans from policy analysis to practices in classrooms. They include analyses of human rights from a regional or country perspective, including Greece, Jordan, the Latin American region, Morocco, Northern Ireland, Portugal, the UK, the US, and Turkey. In facilitating a clarification of the ways in which we understand and talk about human rights in the field of comparative education, the editors have analysed and visualized the chapter contributions using Marie-BĆ©nĆ©dicte Dembourā€™s categorization of human rights discourses. This is a fruitful exercise as it unravels the fact that we do not always mean the same thing when talking about human rights and also sheds light on the issues within human rights to which we are silent, issues that we should conceivably be discussing. Our engagement in human rights seems to focus on using these rights as leverage to promote our arguments about education, not engaging in a more philosophical debate about human rights. Human rights can be used as an ethical lingua franca and thus providing a fertile ground for nuancing our understanding of human rights. Since we experience a huge gap between morality and reality, an engagement in the ethical perspectives of human rights can help us on the way to closing this gap.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Buskerud University College, Norway

    Heidi Biseth

  • Oslo University College, Norway

    Halla B. Holmarsdottir

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