Reading between the lines of rights: A critical analysis of international and national discourses (de)marginalizing indigenous and minority rights to higher education
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Sahar D. Sattarzadeh
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Stromquist, Nelly
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University of Maryland, College Park
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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513
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Committee members: Croninger, Robert; MacDonald, Victoria-Maria; Mahmoudi, Hoda; McLaren, Peter
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-10233-7
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Education Policy, and Leadership
Body granting the degree
University of Maryland, College Park
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2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In UNESCO's World Declaration on Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century: Vision & Action it is emphasized that access to higher education for disadvantaged groups "must be actively facilitated, since these groups as collectivities and as individuals may have both experience and talent that can be of great value for the development of societies and nations." Underrepresented groups across the globe, including minorities and indigenous peoples, traditionally endure the most unequal, inequitable, low quality educational opportunities. Discourses regarding this reality at the tertiary level is often overlooked and nearly non-existent, however. This dissertation, therefore, guided by an interdisciplinary theoretical framework relevant to higher education, international human rights law, and decolonial theory, highlights the cases of three specific minority and/or indigenous populations- Afro-Brazilians in Brazil, Bahá'ís in Iran, and Mäori in New Zealand.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Education Policy; International law; Public policy; Ethnic studies; Higher education
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Social sciences;Education;Critical discourse analysis;Decolonization;Human rights;Indigenous peoples;Interpretive policy analysis;Minorities