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Assessment of the educational attainment of students 2014, para. 29
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- Education is invaluable for the preservation of the cultural heritage of humankind. Inculcating in students a commitment to preserving and enriching multicultural and multilingual diversity and promoting a better understanding and appreciation of the richness of cultural diversity deserves an important place in any education system. National curricula should aim to prepare students for the defence of cultural diversity as an ethical imperative, inseparable from respect for human dignity, as expressed in the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity of 2001. The main lines of the action plan for the implementation of the Declaration clearly provide for promoting through education an awareness of the positive value of cultural diversity and improving to this end both curriculum design and teacher education. The education provided, as well as the assessments of students, should show the importance attached to the preservation and promotion of cultural diversity and pluralism as an essential part of human-centred development. The assessment of students should demonstrate their understanding of common values shared by all humankind, with respect for people from different civilizations, cultures and religions.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Sexual education 2010, para. 5
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- Sexuality is an activity that is inherent to human beings and includes many personal and social factors. However, this activity is usually kept hidden or is associated exclusively with reproduction for various cultural, religious and ideological reasons, most of them related to the persistence of patriarchalism.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Protecting education against commercialization 2015, para. 81
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- The commercialization of education necessarily involves the pursuit of material values to the detriment of the humanist mission of education. Private schools propagate a commercial value system and establish a learning system devoid of cultural diversity, as they cater to particular social strata. The "cultural-valuational currency" they breed is derogatory to the "moral worth" of the very poor. Privatization eclipses a holistic approach to education: learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together and learning to be.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Privatization and the right to education 2014, para. 104
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- States should develop a regulatory framework governing the privatization of education. Such a framework should be inspired by general principles of social justice and equity as well as by education as a public good, subjecting private providers to full accountability for their operations and to rigorous scrutiny. It should be comprehensive so as to apply to private education providers at all levels, from preschool through basic education to higher education, including cross-border higher education and online or correspondence providers. No private higher education institution should be allowed to operate without prior approval and recognition by competent public authorities.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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