This study In an attempt to promote equal access to education, we in South Africa, have adopted an instrumentalist approach to the debate of the right to education. In other words, we have provided an enabling legal framework and we simply assume that access to education has been granted to every one. We continue to pretend that we understand what exactly the concept of “access to education” means. We also assume that we all have a common understanding of what the Constitution means by the right to education. On 26 June 1955 the historic Freedom Charter of the African National Congress (ANC) was adopted. This charter declared “the doors of learning and culture shall be opened.” Over the next four decades, the demand for open and equal access to education became central platform in the anti-apartheid struggles that brought an ANC-led government to power in 1994. Yet, ten years later (2004) the problem of access continues to preoccupy education planners and activists against the backdrop of some of the most progressive policy positions including a Constitution that recognizes education as a basic right. The intellectual puzzle that motivates this study is to explain, therefore, why despite its prominence, it continues to be regarded as an intractable problem. The research strategy adopted in pursuit of this puzzle is to trace the changing meanings of the concept of “access to education” under and after apartheid, and its expression in the practices of two case study schools (comparative case studies). Data was collected from different sources to trace the concept of access to education in education from the apartheid era to the policies and practices that affirm access to education as a basic human right today. This study hopes to contribute significantly to the dialogue of “access” as a realisation of the basic right to education. For the conceptual framework Morrow’s distinction between epistemological access and physical access was used. Formal access to education refers to enrolment or registration at an education institution, in this case, a school, whereas epistemological access refers to access to knowledge and information that these education institutions hold. I expanded the conceptual framework to include dimensions of epistemological access such as how the topic is taught, who selected the topic, the value and political basis. I undertook documentary analysis and a series of interviews with individuals who were involved in the struggle either through intellectual contributions in the NEC and NEPI processes or in the National Education Co-ordinating Committee. I also conducted two case studies of schools located in vastly different social and political contexts. At these schools, I collected data through classroom and school observations, semi-structured interviews with principals, history teachers and learners. Findings: The first finding of this study is that the ways in which students experience access to knowledge (epistemological access) is strongly dependent on the history and politics of the school context and the institutional culture, rather than the formal prescriptions laid down in the school curriculum The second finding of this study is that even when students enjoy physical access to schools, they have highly uneven, even unequal, access to knowledge within those schools. The third finding is that despite the awareness and understanding of what good education entails, without physical access, it is difficult for individuals to entertain discussions about epistemological access. The fourth finding is that despite claims that the policy promotes increased access to education, it was not possible to find reports that refer to any significant degree of quality outcomes as a result of the implementation of the principle of “equality of access” to education. Increased access to education has not resulted in quality output. This dissertation contributes to knowledge by its nuanced exploration of the complexities of access to education as a human right. Most importantly it pushes the boundaries of knowledge pertaining to both physical and epistemological access at the time when each of these are crucial points in the education development agenda. / Thesis (PhD (Education Management and Policy Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Education Management and Policy Studies / unrestricted

Equal access to education, its legal framework and protection Key words: equal access to education, primary school, inclusive education, discrimination Right to equal access to education is the topic of the diploma thesis of the author. Its aim is to analyze some of the problems of the equal access to education with respect to the primary education. The diploma thesis is divided into five chapters. First chapter is introductory and it describes selected problematics of the primary education in the Czech Republic. In the second chapter the concept and conception of equality and discrimination are examined. Third chapter contains regulation of the Czech primary education. The author tries to analyze the Czech primary education, especially pros and contras of its structure. Next she describes the evolution of the primary education with respect to the new regulation, effective from 1.9.2016. In the fourth chapter the author describes some of the aspects of the entrance proceedings; she especially focuses on the entrance criteria. Fifth chapter is devoted to the possible remedies in administrative proceedings, administrative court proceedings and civil proceedings. It refers to some processual aspects, which can be problematic. In the last chapter the author summarizes her conclusions. To sum it up...

Submitted by Edileide Reis (leyde-landy@hotmail.com) on 2013-04-17T19:32:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa Pessanha.pdf: 23175178 bytes, checksum: 570a2058dd4cedff4d846f8d66bd4c10 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Meirelles(rodrigomei@ufba.br) on 2013-05-09T18:07:36Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa Pessanha.pdf: 23175178 bytes, checksum: 570a2058dd4cedff4d846f8d66bd4c10 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-09T18:07:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa Pessanha.pdf: 23175178 bytes, checksum: 570a2058dd4cedff4d846f8d66bd4c10 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / A presente dissertação é fruto de uma pesquisa acerca da relação existente entre o acesso à educação e o direito fundamental ao trabalho enquanto realidades que demonstram na prática expressiva convergência. Esse tema foi desenvolvido objetivando promover algumas reflexões sob o prisma jurídico a respeito dessa ponte que se estabelece entre a educação e o mundo do trabalho. Para tanto inicialmente são apresentados alguns elementos de grande importância acerca da educação com enfoque no acesso e em discussões correlatas relevantes procurando estabelecer sua caracterização e evidenciar suas nuances de modo a criar as bases para o entendimento da matéria voltando-se sobretudo para a proposta da pesquisa. Em seguida o foco é deslocado para o direito fundamental ao trabalho passando pela compreensão da teoria geral dos direitos fundamentais com o escopo de vislumbrar os contornos desse direito em específico à luz da referida teoria bem como desvelando alguns mitos e buscando alcançar a sua configuração atual tendo em vista o inegável valor do trabalho dentro do contexto social da humanidade inclusive nos dias atuais. Completando o trajeto de investigação percorrido no intuito de ampliar as ponderações sobre do objeto de estudo o capítulo seguinte abrange o escopo propriamente dito desse trabalho de pesquisa qual seja analisar como a educação e o trabalho estão interligados oferecendo questões de natureza teórica e prática que delineiam o cenário social e jurídico relacionado a esse ponto de discussão. Por fim algumas conclusões desenvolvidas ao longo do texto são sistematizadas de maneira a propor possíveis direcionamentos no que tange ao tema em comento tendo a sensação de que em verdade há ainda, muito a ser feito, especialmente no que concerne ao campo das realizações práticas sendo essa percepção oriunda em especial das ilações que se demonstra de maneira clara entre a efetivação do acesso à educação e a (muitas vezes) conseqüente concretização do direito fundamental ao trabalho. / Salvador

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Magister Educationis - MEd / The study was prompted by the need to look at alternative options to mainstream education for learners who are too old for their grade, who have opted out of the education system but find themselves wanting to re-access the education system. Mainstream schooling seems a difficult option for many learners who would like to complete their basic education but find that they have problems fitting in the multi-age classroom. If they are too old for their grade, they are at risk of dropping out. Following a review of the literature around access, re-access, over-age, dropout, exclusion, inclusion, capability and a methodological approach to the study, the analysis will focus on the Youth Care School, a school for age-inappropriate learners as a form of intervention. This is a day school operating independently from the Western Cape Education Department, taking on learners who are too old for their grade, who would otherwise be on the streets. The theoretical perspective of the study will focus on the capability theory and alternative schools as forms of capability development.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Education has always occupied a central role in the discipline of economics, featuring prominently in the theoretical constructs of the discipline and, more recently, in their empirical applications. While one can trace the origins of Human Capital theory all the way back to Adam Smith’s ‘The Wealth of Nations’, the two major advances in our understanding of education’s role in economic development transpired in the last 50 years. The first was half way through the 20th century with the work of work of Mincer (1958), Schultz (1961) and particularly that of Becker (1962) who formalized the idea of Human Capital. The second advance was at the turn of the 21st century when Hanushek and Kimko (and later Wößmann) incorporated measures of education quality into their models of economic growth. This latest strand of research serves as the point of departure for this thesis, placing education quality at the centre of the discussion. The thesis begins by focussing on the South African case and highlighting three broad issues that characterise education in the country: (1) the high levels of inequality that can be seen when comparing student performance by race, language, geographic location and socioeconomic status. New evidence is presented to show that South Africa does indeed have two public schooling systems, reiterating and confirming the findings of other South African scholars. (2) Using intra-survey benchmarks of student achievement, Chapter 2 develops a new method of quantifying learning deficits in mathematics by using three different datasets covering grades 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9. The learning gap between the poorest 60% of students and the wealthiest 20% of students is found to be approximately three grade-levels in grade 3 and grows to between four and five grade-levels by grade 9. (3) The focus then shifts to the complex issue of language and performance, which is addressed in Chapter 3. Here the aim is to exploit an unusual occurrence whereby a large group of South African students were tested twice, one month apart, on the same test in different languages. Using a simplified difference-in-difference methodology it becomes possible to identify the causal impact of writing a test in English when English is not a student’s home language. The final two chapters of the thesis widen the remit of analysis to include 11 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, viz. Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Here the aim is to develop a composite measure of education access and education quality by combining household data (DHS) on grade completion and survey data (SACMEQ) on cognitive outcomes. The new measure, termed access-to-literacy and access-to-numeracy is reported for all countries and important sub-groups in Chapter 4. The method is then used in Chapter 5 to compare access-to-learning over a period of increased access to schooling (2000-2007). In all countries there was an improvement in access to literacy and numeracy, challenging the widely held perception that there is always an access-quality trade-off in education. In particular, girls and those in relatively poor households benefited most from this improvement in access to literacy and numeracy. The thesis ultimately concludes that if children are to realize their full potential, the expansion of physical access to schooling in the developing world must be accompanied by meaningful learning opportunities. The acquisition of knowledge, skills and values must be the central aim of educational expansion. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Onderwys het nog altyd ʼn rol in ekonomie as vakgebied gespeel. Dit is verstaanbaar, want vaardighede en onderwys was nog altyd ʼn prominente deel van die teoretiese konstrukte en meer onlangs ook van empiriese toepassings in die dissipline. Terwyl die oorsprong van menslike-kapitaalteorie teruggevoer kan word na Adam Smith se Wealth of Nations, het die twee grootste deurbrake met die verstaan van onderwys se rol in ekonomiese ontwikkeling in die laaste vyftig jaar plaasgevind. Die werk van Mincer (1958), Schultz (1961) en veral Becker (1962), wat in die middel van die vorige eeu formele gestalte aan die begrip ‘menslike kapitaal’ gegee het, was die eerste deurbraak. Die tweede deurbraak was teen die eeuwending toe Hanushek en Kimko (en later Wößmann) maatstawwe van onderwysgehalte in hulle ekonomiese groeimodelle begin insluit het. Hierdie nuwe tak van die navorsing plaas onderwys vierkant in die sentrum en dien as vertrekpunt vir hierdie proefskrif. Die proefskrif begin deur aandag op drie breë kwessies te vestig wat kenmerkend is van onderwys in Suid-Afrika: (1) Die hoë vlakke van ongelykheid volgens ras, taal, geografiese gebied en sosio-ekonomiese status in studente se prestasie. (2) In hoofstuk 2 word ʼn nuwe metode aangebied om leeragterstrande kwantitatief te meet met behulp van norme van leerlingprestasie in skoolvlak-opnames vir grade 3, 4, 5, 6 en 9. Daar word bevind dat die leergaping tussen die armste 60% en die rykste 20% van studente in graad 3 ongeveer drie jaar is en teen graad 9 tot vier of vyf jaar aangroei. (3) Die fokus verskuif daarna na die verwikkelde kwessie van taal en skoolprestasie, wat in hoofstuk 3 bespreek word. Hier is die doel om die ongewone geval uit te buit waar ʼn groot groep Suid-Afrikaanse leerlinge binne die verloop van ʼn maand tweemaal dieselfde toets geskryf het, maar in twee verskillende tale. Met behulp van ʼn vereenvoudigde verskil-tussen-verskille-benadering is dit moontlik om te bepaal hoe groot die kousale effek is waar ʼn leerling wie se moedertaal nie Engels is nie die toets in Engels moes skryf. Die laaste twee hoofstukke van die proefskrif bevat ʼn wyer analise van elf lande in Sub-Sahara Afrika, naamlik Kenia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mosambiek, Namibia, Suid-Afrika, Swaziland, Tanzanië, Uganda, Zambië en Zimbabwe. Die doel is om ʼn saamgestelde maatstaf van onderwys-toegang en -gehalte te skep deur huishoudingsdata (DHS) oor graadvoltooiing en skoolopnamedata (SACMEQ) oor kognitiewe uitkomste te kombineer. Die nuwe maatstaf, genaamd ‘toegang-tot-geletterdheid’ en ‘toegang-tot-syfervaardigheid’, word in hoofstuk 4 vir al die lande en subgroepe opgestel. Die metode word dan in hoofstuk 5 gebruik om toegang-tot-leergeleenthede te vergelyk oor ʼn periode waartydens skooltoegang verbreed het (2000-2007). Daar was ʼn verbetering in toegang tot geletterdheid en syfervaardigheid in alle lande, teenstrydig met die wyd-gehuldigde siening dat daar altyd ʼn afruiling tussen toegang en gehalte van onderwys bestaan. In besonder word bevind dat meisies sowel as kinders uit arm huishoudings die meeste by die toename in toegang tot geletterdheid en syfervaardigheid gebaat het. Die gevolgtrekking is dat die vervulling van die potensiaal van kinders in die ontwikkelende wêreld vereis dat die verbreding van fisiese toegang tot skole met beduidende leergeleenthede gepaard moet gaan. Die aanleer van kennis, vaardighede en waardes moet die sentrale doel van die uitbreiding van onderwysgeleenthede wees.

A bolsa de estudo para o ensino fundamental privado, financiada com recursos da educação pública, está prevista na CF/88 e na LDB/96 em caráter excepcional para atender ao direito público subjetivo de acesso ao ensino fundamental. Trata-se de uma excepcionalidade, pois a Lei permite o uso deste instituto sob três condições: quando não houver vaga na escola pública próxima à residência da criança, quando a criança não possuir recursos para financiar o próprio estudo em escola privada, e como conseqüência, o poder público obrigado a investir prioritariamente na solução da falta de vagas na local de moradia do aluno bolsista. Em resumo a bolsa deve ser transitória. A pesquisa tomou o caso de Nova Iguaçu/RJ, centrandose nos anos de 1997 a 2008, no entanto, mostrou que esse Município tem concedido bolsas de estudo de forma recorrente desde, no mínimo 1990, e no mesmo lugar e a crianças não necessariamente carentes, pois a maior parte delas já estava na escola quando receberam bolsa. O que caracteriza a sua ilegalidade, a sua inconstitucionalidade. A pesquisa objetivou entender a natureza da política de concessão de bolsas no âmbito deste Município. A hipótese de que a concessão de bolsas, mais do que uma resposta ao direito público subjetivo, seria uma forma de desviar recursos públicos à escola privada, pautada pelo clientelismo e pela troca de favores foi corroborada pela pesquisa. Para tanto, recorreu-se a uma combinação de métodos de pesquisa, ao paradigma indiciário e ao materialismo histórico. Procedeu-se a consultas a documentos do Município e a entrevistas com gestores da educação pública, da escola privada, políticos, lideranças sindicato dos trabalhadores da educação do Município, conselheiros na área da educação e aos próprios bolsistas. Constatou-se, sobretudo até o final de 2004, devido à forma sub-reptícia e à falta de transparência pública na sua concessão, que, até a sua extinção em 2008 pelo Governo Municipal, a sociedade civil enfrentou imensas dificuldades para exercer o papel de cidadão no controle social sobre esta política pública. / State-funded grants for private schools operating in the compulsory education sector (comprising 8 years) are provided for in the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the General Law of Education of 1996 as an exception to fulfill the public subjective right of access to the 8 years of compulsory education. This is an exception, for the law allows said grants under three conditions: when there is no place available in the State school near the child home, when the child has not funds to pay his own fees in a private school and, as a result, the State should prioritarily invest to solve the lack of places in the place of residence of the pupil with a grant. In short, the grant should be provisional. This research examined the case of the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, between 1997 and 2008. It found that the local government has consistently given grants since at least 1990, always in the same place and with the same schools for children not necessarily deprived, for most of them were already at school when they were given a grant, which indicates the illegal and nonconstitutional nature of the grants. The research sought to understand the nature of the grant awarding policy in this local government and confirmed the hypothesis that, the awarding of grants, far from being an answer to the subjective public right of access to education, would be a way of channelling public funds to private schools, based on clientelism and exchange of favours. To do this, the research employed a combination of research methods, the criticalhistorical approach and the index paradigm. Local government documents were examined and interviews were carried out with State education and private school administrators, politicians, leaders of the local government education workers\' union, education councillors and those legally responsible for the children who were given the grants. It was found, up to its extinction, in 2008, particularly until the end of 2004, owing to the subreptitious form and the lack of public transparency in the grant awarding, that civil society faced immense difficulties to perform the citizen role of social control over this public policy.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:33:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Milena Acosta Felten.pdf: 686798 bytes, checksum: aa749cbcd02a88648332c3caf4776b90 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-28 / This research aims to analyze how the international standard setting process for basic education, established by international agents and widespread in developing countries, are implemented and investigated in Brazil. To accomplish this goal the international project Millennium Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2000 is analyzed in its objective on universal basic education. Considering how that goal was developed in Brazil is possible to reflect about the way education is understood and presented by such programs. The Critical Theory of Society grounds the bases for this discussion, especially the concepts of Education, Formationa and Pseudo formation developed by Adorno. Other authors such as Horkheimer and Marcuse were also used to discuss how the universalization of education relates to the right to education. The research was conducted through document analysis, checking how these objectives have been translated into Brazilian schools reality. The data presented in official reports of the international project quoted are analyzed in three categories: access, permanency and programs and policies. Due to the exploratory nature of the research, initial hypotheses have not been formulated. In conclusion, the access to education has been widely discussed in the Brazilian official reports, in disregard to the permanency aspects or data, and the extension of the basic education length from eight to nine years has been one of the main, however not the only, direct political measure derived from the Develop Millennium Goals project / Esta pesquisa busca analisar como o processo de fixação de padrões internacionais para a educação básica, estabelecidos por agentes internacionais e amplamente difundidos em países em desenvolvimento, são implementados e monitorados no Brasil. Para cumprir tal objetivo, o projeto internacional Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milênio, criado pela Organização das Nações Unidas no ano 2000, é analisado, em seu objetivo referente à universalização da educação básica. Procura-se refletir como esse objetivo foi desenvolvido no Brasil, inquirindo acerca da forma que a educação é entendida e apresentada por tais programas. A Teoria Crítica da Sociedade orientou essa reflexão, a partir principalmente dos conceitos elaborados por Adorno sobre educação, formação e pseudoformação. Outros autores como Horkheimer e Marcuse também foram utilizados para discutir como a universalização da educação relaciona-se ao direito à educação. Busca-se, assim, por meio de análise documental, verificar como tais objetivos foram traduzidos para a realidade escolar brasileira, analisando-se como os documentos oficiais apresentaram dados para o cumprimento da meta. Os dados apresentados nos relatórios oficiais do projeto internacional citado são analisados em três categorias: acesso, permanência e programas e políticas. Devido ao caráter exploratório da pesquisa, hipóteses iniciais não foram formuladas. Conclui-se que o acesso à educação brasileira foi discutido amplamente em detrimento da permanência, que as principais políticas decorrentes do ODM Brasil incluem o aumento do ensino fundamental de oito para nove anos

儘管中國的全國發展著重在教育並嚴格實行九年義務教育法令，然而數以百萬計的中國移民孩童仍被排除在國家教育體制之外。我的論文探討中國內部由鄉村移向都市的這群移民孩童的受教權。這篇研究著重在武漢市地方政府不同政策的實施，這篇研究實地到武漢、北京進行田野研究，尤其聚焦在這群移民兒童在這兩座城市所面對的心理障礙上。 近年來，部分市政府已實行移民孩童教育體系整合的改革，而武漢市正是其中採用公共導向模型來解決此議題的城市之一。雖然這些改革在武漢市相當多數的移民者上獲得成功，然而北京市政府卻在各行政區內推動這些相關政策遭遇困難。 然而，就在北京市政府官員因懼怕更多移民人口流入北京市，而猶豫是否要將移民孩童納入公共教育的一環時，此舉卻導致對這些孩童在制度與心理上更嚴重的歧視。此篇研究認為此種歧視並邊緣化移民人口的態度會造成城鄉人口之間的衝突與仇視。相反地，長遠來看，替移民學子推行更完整且公平的社會福利政策，將能吸引並留住更多高品質的移民勞工。因此，為達到教育平等的目標，需要將其教育平等與社會發展目標相互整合 / Despite China’s national emphasis on education and the central government’s strict implementation of a 9-year compulsory education law, millions of Chinese migrant children are still excluded from the state-run education system. My thesis will examine the education rights of migrant children in China migrating from rural to urban cities; I will research the different policy implementations by the local administrations in this regard in Wuhan city, where I did a field study, and in Beijing, and will in particular focus on the psychological barriers these migrant children confront in these two cities. Recently, some city governments have implemented reforms aimed at integrating migrant children into their state-run schooling system and Wuhan is one of these cities applying the public-oriented model to deal with this issue. While these reforms have been carried out successfully in Wuhan where there is a relatively large quantity of migrants, the Beijing government has experienced difficulty to properly apply the regulations in each of the city’s administrative districts at the same level. While the Beijing city officials hesitated to include migrant children in public education with the fear of more migrants flooding into the city, this approach has led to greater discrimination against these migrant children both institutionally and psychologically. I argue in the conclusion that this attitude to marginalize the migrant populations could result in dissatisfaction and greater hostility between urban and migrant populations. On the contrary, the strategy of providing more comprehensive and equitable social benefits for migrant students attracts and retains more highly skilled migrant workers in the long term. Thus, the goal of achieving educational equity needs to be integrated with social development goals.