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The Productive Plasticity of Rights

其他書名	Globalization, Education and Human Rights
出版	SSRN, 2014
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ubgVzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Globalization, education, and, in the last 65 years, human rights, interact in complex ways not reducible to a singular, linear argument. In this chapter, I examine the ways in which the contemporary forces of globalization and human rights are refracted differentially in educational policy discussions, textbook revisions, teacher education, and in the everyday life of schools. For better and worse, as I will argue, rights frameworks have become the primary organizing force for diverse actors from international organizations to lawyers, educational scholars, and policymakers at national and local levels. In particular, I examine what I believe to be the productive plasticity of rights discourse. Culminating with a case study of the Right to Education Act in India, I look at how “human rights” concepts often assume different meanings, uses, and definitions. I also consider that the international currency and discursive popularity of these frameworks can be and are utilized by local actors strategically and usefully, even if in ways whose ends are not at-the-moment determined, in promoting greater access to quality education.