Education denied : costs and remedies / Katarina Tomasevski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1: WHY THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION?1. Why Do We Need Safeguards Against Denials and Abuses of Education by Governments2. The Economics of the Right to Education3. The Promise of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights4. The Core Contents of the Right to Education

PART 2: RUPTURING THE GLOBAL CONSENSUS5. Enter The World Bank: Changing the Parameters of the Debate6. Impoverishment of Public Education and Its Cost7. Unwilling, Unable or Unlike-Minded? Creators of Global Education Strategy8. Painfully Visible Loss of the Right to Education: Transfigured UniversityPART 3: PUTTING HUMAN RIGHTS BACK IN9. Exposing and Opposing Exclusion10. Revisiting Segregated Education11. Rights-Based Education as Pathway to Gender Equality12. Human Rights Safeguards In Education13. Summing Up: Human Rights through Education

This unique contribution to global educational debate and policymaking aims to highlight the adverse impacts on children and young people of not having access to effective formal education. In reviewing the emerging commitment to universal education and the difficult history of trying to give effect to this commitment, the author draws on three bodies of literature--on education specifically, on the development process generally, and on human rights. This book shifts the debate from sheer numbers of pupils, funding mechanisms, and market forces, to a deeper discussion about what the right to education should really comprise, how governments actually give effect to it, and what happens to young people within the educational process itself.