Abstract

RUIZ, Guillermo Ramón. The Right to Education and its Conceptual Development from an Historical Point of View. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.19, n.2, pp.544-560.  Epub June 05, 2020. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v19n2-2020-16.

This article focusses on the conceptualization of the right to education from a historical point of view. First, I analyze the historicity of this right according to the liberalism ideology and the constitutionalism perspective, which are understood as functional processes to the configuration of the modern Nation-States. Second, I define this right following the development of the International Human Rights law, which has included education as one of the core human right. Finally, I explore some of the consequences of the definition of the education as a human right at the recent historical periods, when political reforms were made by right-oriented governments in Western societies and they have promoted the privatization of education.

Keywords : History of the right to education; Human rights; Privatization of education.

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