Education and Human Rights

Güzver Yıldıran^1,

¹Boğaziçi University Faculty of Education Istanbul, Turkey

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Güzver Yıldıran. Education and Human Rights. American Journal of Educational Research. 2014; 2(7):456-462. doi: 10.12691/education-2-7-4

Abstract

The contention presented in the paper is that there is no society in this day of globalization, where the institution of education is systematized within a moral or ethical frame aligned with the requirements stated in universal documents of human rights, signed by member states. Four points are emphasized and demonstrated by quantitative world data, where violations of human rights permeate educational systems across countries. The first violation of human rights is related to the question of who is allowed to be educated. The second human right violation is related to the differences in the in the duration of compulsory education and educational opportunities that exist in our world. The third human right violation is related to whether educational systems are based on social class differences, perpetuating inequalities at the societal level, for example as instantiated by Continental Europe. Finally, the fourth human right violation is presented in reltion to inequalities in the quality of compulsory education provided, where differences follow ethnic and racial demarcations, as instantiated by the United States of America.

Keywords:
education human rights globalization

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