Measuring the Right to EducationJean-Jacques Friboulet Amartya Sen defined development as the creation of capabilities or capacities. One of the crucial capacities is basic education. With no access to writing, reading and numeracy, people are unable to fight against poverty and to build their lives in the current global environment. In this perspective, the right to education cannot be conceived only in a subsidiary or ancillary way. The realization of the right to education is an essential pre-condition for human dignity and for development. But how does one measure this reality? This book presents a methodology for observation and analysis that is informed by indicators designed to measure the four capacities of the educational system: acceptability, adaptability, availability and accessability. This methodology has been developed in a partnership between the Interdisciplinary Institute for Ethics and Human Rights (IIEHR) at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and the Association for the promotion of non-formal education in Burkina Faso (APENF). The methodology is presented with its first results, which are the outcome of field surveys carried out in Burkina Faso.--Publisher's description. |
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FOREWORD | 10 |
INTRODUCTION | 17 |
SYSTEMIC ETHICAL METHODOLOGY | 23 |
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ACCEPTABILITY actors ADAPTABILITY Annual APENF assessment Association Banfora basic knowledge budget Burkina Faso burkinabé children aged Dakar Décennal de Développement DEP/MEBA DGAENF Directorate for basic DPEBA droit à l'éducation droit de l'homme Education and Literacy educational system effectiveness enable evaluation FONAENF formal and non-formal formal sector formal system framework Fribourg girls goal household Human Rights IIEHR implementation indicator measures INSD Institut interdisciplinaire Jomtien l'alphabétisation l'éducation de base L'effectivité du droit l'enseignement de base Liechti literacy and non-formal literacy centres measures the share MEBA non-formal education non-formal sector number of students Ouagadougou Oudalan PDDEB Percentage of literacy pilot group Plan Décennal policies population post-literacy primary school programme Promotion of Non-Formal province rate of schooling right to basic right to education Sanmatenga scoreboard social statistics surveys Swiss Development Cooperation take into account Tapoa teaching hours UNESCO University of Fribourg urban