Eğitim Hakkını Yeniden Düşünmek: Sosyolojik Bir Çözümlemeye Doğru

Öz

Neoliberalleşme süreci ve ülkeler arasında ve içinde artan eşitsizlikler insan haklarından yararlanılması bakımından özellikle işçi sınıfı ve diğer dezavantajlı gruplar için kötüleşen bir ortam yaratmıştır. Bu makale, gelişmekte olan insan hakları sosyolojisine eğitim hakkının politik ekonomi çerçevesinden bir çözümlemesini yaparak katkıda bulunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Makalede, ekonomik, sosyal ve kültürel hakların resmi olarak kabul edilmelerine karşın, 1970’lerden itibaren devletin kamu hizmetlerinin sağlanması alanından çekilmeye başlaması ve bu hizmetlerin karşılanmasında piyasa ilişkilerinin devreye sokulmasıyla, adı geçen hakların “tüketici haklarına” indirgendiği ileri sürülecektir. Bu makalenin amacı eğitim hakkının resmî olarak tanınmasıyla gerçek anlamda yararlanılması arasındaki farkı soruşturmak ve bu hakkın gerçekleşmesi için sosyolojik bir analizin yapabileceği katkıları tartışmaktır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Eğitim Hakkı Sosyolojisi, Eğitim Politikası, Neoliberalizm, Politik Ekonomi

Rethinking the Right to Education: Toward A Sociological Analysis

Öz

The neoliberalization process and increasing inequalities between and within the countries have created a deteriorating environment for the enjoyment of human rights especially for the working classes and other disadvantaged groups all around the world. This article seeks to contribute to the burgeoning field of sociology of human rights through providing a political economy analysis of the right to education within the context of neoliberal socio-economic conditions. It will be argued that economic, social and cultural rights, despite their formal recognition, have been demoted to ‘consumer rights’ with the increasing retreat of the state from the provision of the public services and the introduction of the market relations in these services since the mid-1970s. The purpose of this article is to explore the gap in formal recognition and substantive enjoyment of the right to education and to discuss the contributions of a sociological analysis for the realisation of this right.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Sociology of the Right to Education,Educational Policy,Neoliberalism,Political Economy

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