HREQ 3010 Lecture Notes - Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Deindustrialization, Edward Said

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 3010
• Professor: Antonio Torres- Ruiz

Document Summary

March 4th, 2014: education as a human right, urban marginalization and saps. British international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was director of the arts in schools project (1985 . 89), professor of arts education at the university of warwick (1989 2001) and was knighted in 2003 for services to education. http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=zdzfcdgpl4u&feature=youtu. be. School was traditionally seen as a public good, whereas today it is increasingly seen as a private asset. Public education is a hard-won democratic achievement . Neo-liberal push for the privatization of education. The commercialization of public and higher education. The promotion of an impoverished sense of politics and public life. Education has become a privilege rather than a right. The role of the university as a public sphere committed to the deepening and expanding the possibilities or democratic identities, values, and relations. Reduced promotion of critical thinking and the possibility of raising embarrassing.