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The relation between human rights and education

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The 1948 Human Rights Declaration and the 1989 Children’s Rights Convention often formulate rights conceived of at an earlier stage. The right to education with its essential egalitarian assumptions, e.g., is part and parcel of modern educational theory, which appeared on the European scene as early as the seventeenth century. For educationalists, the wording of the twentieth century declarations and conventions occasionally raises doubts. The very article 28 on the right to education itself is a case in point: it breathes the atmosphere of a ‘Third World’/‘North-South-divide’/‘Global Issues’ discourse, rather than educational discourse. More generally, a lot of the current reflection on the theme of ‘education and human rights’ seems to originate from and feed on such global-political discourse. From the perspective of educational thought, it is crucial to strike the balance between the rights of parents and the rights of children. This duly complicates human rights discourse. The paper focuses on the rights of future adults as compared to the rights of the adults of the present. A characteristic tension surfaces whenever education is implicated in the ideals and future projects of the present adult generation, because, educationally speaking, the future should be left open, being the responsibility of the future adults themselves.



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