Education for all - Unicef

A Human Rights-Based Approach to

EDUCATION FOR ALL

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Education ? United Nations Children's Fund/ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2007

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A Human Rights-Based Approach to

EDUCATION FOR ALL

A framework for the realization of children's right to education

and rights within education

Contents iii

CONTENTS

Preface and acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii My right to learn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 1: Human rights and education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Education as a human right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Human rights-based approaches to development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The principles that inform a rights-based approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Adopting a rights-based approach to education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Applying a rights-based approach to policy and programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Situation assessment and analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Assessing capacity for implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Programme planning, design and implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Monitoring and evaluation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Addressing tensions in fulfilling the right to education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Reconciling conflicting agendas for education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Balancing rights and responsibilities of children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Tensions in the implementation of a rights-based approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Chapter 2: A rights-based conceptual framework for education . . . . . . . . . 27 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 1. The right of access to education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Education throughout all stages of childhood and beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Availability and accessibility of education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Equality of opportunity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2.The right to quality education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 A broad, relevant and inclusive curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Rights-based learning and assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 A child-friendly, safe and healthy environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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