Education in the 21st Century: Human Rights and Individual Actions
| dc.contributor.author | Lee, Sharon Elizabeth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-01-09T18:17:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-01-09T18:17:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-01-09T18:17:41Z | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2007 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation has three goals. The first goal is to outline how twentieth century advocates qualify education as a human right. The second goal is to offer an integrative account which argues that, to defend a right to education both the provision of educational resources and the freedom to do something with those resources must be taken into account. This requires more than the rhetoric of a UN document like the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It also requires more than the good intentions of duty-bound adults acting in the best interests of the child. To do this, it is necessary to consider how the institutional structure dedicated to education - in particular the structure dedicated to basic primary education to which the UN claims all children are entitled - integrates with the freedom each child has to do something with that basic primary education once he or she has obtained it. Finally, by identifying education as a human right within this integrative structure, this dissertation will demonstrate that, if policy documents related to education shift from a focus on the traditional relationship between an experienced adult and a dependent child to one based on the relationship between an individual and a capability set, the claim that education is a human right becomes a meaningful claim which can provide a justification for the social commitments required to recognize this claim. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3471 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.pending | false | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
| dc.subject | philosophy | en |
| dc.subject | education | en |
| dc.subject | human rights | en |
| dc.subject | capabilities | en |
| dc.subject.program | Philosophy | en |
| dc.title | Education in the 21st Century: Human Rights and Individual Actions | en |
| dc.type | Doctoral Thesis | en |
| uws-etd.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
| uws-etd.degree.department | Philosophy | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |