Translating Human Rights in Education

The Influence of Article 24 UN CRPD in Nigeria and Germany
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-472-05528-9
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) is the first human rights treaty to explicitly acknowledge the right to education for persons with disabilities. In order to realize this right, the convention’s Article 24 mandates state parties to ensure inclusive education systems that overcome outright exclusion as well as segregation in special education settings. Despite this major global policy change to tackle the discriminations persons with disabilities face in education, this has yet to take effect in most school systems worldwide.Focusing on the factors undermining the realization of disability rights in education, Julia Biermann probes current meanings of inclusive education in two contrasting yet equally challenged state parties to the UN CRPD: Nigeria, whose school system overtly excludes disabled children, and Germany, where this group primarily learns in special schools. In both countries, policy actors aim to realize the right to inclusive education by segregating students with disabilities into special education settings. In Nigeria, this demand arises from the glaring lack of such a system. In Germany, conversely, from its extraordinary long-term institutionalization. This act of diverting from the principles embodied in Article 24 is based on the steadfast and shared belief that school systems, which place students into special education, have an innate advantage in realizing the right to education for persons with disabilities. Accordingly, inclusion emerges to be an evolutionary and linear process of educational expansion that depends on institutionalized special education, not a right of persons with disabilities to be realized in local schools on an equal basis with others. This book proposes a refined human rights model of disability in education that shifts the analytical focus toward the global politics of formal mass schooling as a space where discrimination is sustained.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Translating Human Rights in Education
- Chapter 2 The Translation of Article 24 UN CRPD: Institutional Change in Educational Discourse
- Chapter 3 Nigeria: Inclusive Education as Strategy of ‘Education for All’ by Special Education
- Chapter 4 Germany: Inclusive Education as a Conflict about School Structures to Preserve Special Education
- Chapter 5 Comparing Translations: The ‘Special Educationalization of Inclusion’
- Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Global-Local Nexus in Human Rights Translations
- References
- Annex

Über Autor(innen)

Julia Biermann is Assistant Professor for Education Studies at the University of Innsbruck.