COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RIGHT TO EDUCATION AND EDUCATION LAW

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EYD 6038 RIGHT TO EDUCATION AND EDUCATION LAW ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Educational Administration and Supervision

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR IDRIS ŞAHIN

Offered to

Educational Administration and Supervision

Course Objective

Studying the relationship between human rights and right to education, and the international and national basis of right to education; implementation of right to education, investigating the access to education and the causes of barriers to access to education; discrimination in education, examining the disadvantaged groups and their use of right to education; the relationship between social, cultural, economic and political factors and use of right to education; discussing equality of opportunity in education. Understanding the legal dimension of violating the use of right to education.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Have an opinion about human rights and the right to education.
2   Acquire knowledge about the regulations providing international basis for the right to education.
3   Familiarize with the national documents regulating the right to education.
4   Understand the access to education and the causes of barriers to access to education.
5   Evaluate the practices causing discrimination in education.
6   Acquire knowledge about the disadvantaged groups and their use of right to education.
7   Understand the relationship between social, cultural, economic and political factors and use of right to education, and the importance of equality of opportunity in education.
8   Understand the legal dimension of violating the use of right to education.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, Objective, Significance and Method of the Course
2 Concepts of human rights and right to education, and their historical development Lecture, seminar and discussion
3 Regulations related to the documents (conventions, agreements, declarations etc.) approved by the United Nations and UNESCO Lecture, seminar and discussion
4 Regulations related to the documents (conventions, agreements, declarations etc.) approved by the United Nations and UNESCO Lecture, seminar and discussion
5 Right to education in the European Union and international organizations documents Lecture, seminar and discussion
6 National documents regulating the right to education Lecture, seminar and discussion
7 Causes of discrimination in education and examples of discrimination in different countries Lecture, seminar and discussion
8 Genaral recapitulation Mid-term exam
9 Disadvantaged groups and their use of right to education Lecture, seminar and discussion
10 Disadvantaged groups and their use of right to education Lecture, seminar and discussion
11 Disadvantaged groups and their use of right to education Lecture, seminar and discussion
12 The relationship between social, cultural, economic and political factors and the use of right to education Lecture, seminar and discussion
13 Equality of opportunity in education through the right to education Lecture, seminar and discussion
14 Legal dimension of violating the use of right to education. Lecture, seminar and discussion
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Alp, S. & Taştan, N. (2011). Türkiye de ırk veya etnik köken temelinde ayrımcılığın gizlenmesi raporu: 1 Ocak- 31 Temmuz 2010. Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi.
Ayata, G., Dilek, S.E. & Oder, B.E. (2010). Kadın hakları uluslararası hukuk ve uygulama. Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları 305.
Beiter, K. D. (2006). The protection of the right to education by international law. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers Leiden.
Çayır, K. ve Ayan Ceyhan, M. (2012). Ayrımcılık çok boyutlu yaklaşımlar. Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları 393.
Gökçen, S. & Öney, S. (2008). Türkiye de Romanlar ve milliyetçilik. Içinde, E. Uzpeder, S. Danova/Roussinova, S. Özçelik and S. Gökçen (Eds.), Biz Buradayız! Türkiye de Romanlar, Ayrımcı Uygulamalar ve Hak Mücadelesi, p, 129-136. Istanbul: Mart Matbaacılık.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussion, group work, lecture, question-answer, cooperative learning techniques

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.30 +ASG* 0.10 + FCG* 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.30 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

idris.sahin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 7 91
Preparation for midterm exam 1 25 25
Preparation for final exam 1 35 35
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 194

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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