Socio-economic rights and COVID-19 : The Right to basic education

dc.contributor.advisorArendse, Lorette E
dc.contributor.emailu22799142@tuks.co.zaen_US
dc.contributor.postgraduateKhonjelwayo, Samukelisiwe
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-22T14:22:51Z
dc.date.available2024-02-22T14:22:51Z
dc.date.created2024-04
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionMini Dissertation (LLM (Multidisciplinary Human Rights))--University of Pretoria, 2023.en_US
dc.description.abstractThere are numerous crises related to the full realisation of the right to basic education. The provision of high-quality education and the elimination of inequality within the education system have been two of the major developments and targets that the government has been working on for the past few years. However, the emergence of the pandemic in 2019 caused a crisis within the educational system, resulting in the exacerbation of pre-existing educational inequalities. Therefore, this dissertation critically analyses these inequalities with specific reference to the unequal distribution of resources and digital inequalities. In this dissertation, the development of basic education in South Africa during the colonial, apartheid, and post-apartheid periods is observed. In this regard, it is argued that educational disparities are deeply rooted within the schooling system, regardless of democracy and constitutionality. Further, the pre-existing inequalities in the distribution of resources before the pandemic are analysed. It is argued that there is a reproduction of apartheid within the educational system where the education rights of black and/or poor learners are not properly realised to reflect social change as envisioned in the Constitution. As a result, the impact of the pandemic reveals that there is a need for long-term and substantial measures that will serve as alternative educational imaginaries.en_US
dc.description.availabilityUnrestricteden_US
dc.description.degreeLLM (Multidisciplinary Human Rights)en_US
dc.description.departmentCentre for Human Rightsen_US
dc.description.facultyFaculty of Lawsen_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-04:Quality Educationen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Research Foundation (NRF)en_US
dc.identifier.citation*en_US
dc.identifier.doiN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.otherA2024en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/94868
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.subjectRight to basic educationen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectInequalityen_US
dc.subjectDistribution of resourcesen_US
dc.subjectDigital inequalityen_US
dc.titleSocio-economic rights and COVID-19 : The Right to basic educationen_US
dc.typeMini Dissertationen_US

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