Promoting Access to Education for Child Refugees in South Africa: The Right to Access Education - Couverture souple

Sithole, Mabel Dzinouya

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3330008636 ISBN 13 : 9783330008632

Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Conflict and its consequences have plagued humanity since the beginning of time. Today, the world finds itself with 10 million stateless people (UNHCR, 2016). 26 % of these people are hosted in Sub-Saharan Africa (UNHCR, 2016). Child refugee rights are a pertinent issue in the Republic of South Africa. South Africa’s progressive Constitution (1996) stipulates the right of all children to access education without discrimination. This book uses a rights based approach to education research to identify some of the factors that promote or hinder child refugee access to education in South Africa by focusing on Cape Town. Mabel interviewed civil society actors, school authorities and child refugees’ parents in Cape Town to better understand the context. Although the South African Schools Act (1996) and other instruments provide a framework for the all children’s access to schooling, the practical implementation of these and other policies at the school level is influenced by interpretation and application of policy by school administrators and refugee parents. The gaps between policy and implementation are a persistent threat to better access to schooling for refugee children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3330008636
• ISBN 13: 9783330008632
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible