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International JANUARY-APRIL | Edition: No. 1 The Long Way to the Independence a View on Historical Experiences Dr. Souribanhu Kar Dr. Uday Balakrishnan former General Secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress in Odisha State Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka Understanding Gandhi Through Padayatra in Odisha Remembering India’s Most Powerful Leader The national movement laid by Gandhiji for various social causes like Indira Gandhi did not get an easy country to administer. At the time of abolition of untouchability and harijan rights for entry to the temples were her takeover as Prime Minister in 1966, India was less than 20 years into indeed very important milestones in the annals of human rights move- freedom, still raw from a partition that had devastated much of its nor- ments in modern India. thern and eastern parts. PAGE 8 PAGE 9 Dear Friends Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, social security and other areas. There also emphasizes on right to education is increased role of private players in Human Right to Education Greeting and envisions EFA a reality. health and education fi eld now. To what to all of you. extent the private parties are commit- However, there are new challenges ted towards and accountable to Human Education is a basic Human Right. We emerged in the changed economic, so- Rights principle? Is there any mecha- Dear readers, believe this. On the contrary, new data cial and global order in the last few dec- nism developed to make them account- from UNESCO refl ect that globally 263 ades. The "Human Right" perspective able for human right? How to ensure PoliTeknik is now million children and youth are out of of Right to Education for all children Human Right to Education in war zone, available with three school. is missing in the new world order. The crisis situation, confl ict area, during hu- new newspapers in refugee crisis in European, Asian and manitarian crisis? Portuguese, Spanish and The number of out of school children West Asian countries, increasing ethnic English. or children who are deprived of their confl ict in societies, terrorism, climate To discuss, debate and deliberate on basic human right to education is very change, distress migration and internal all these aspects of Human Right to Ed- In this fi rst issue, the high. The UN agencies, National Gov- displacement of the population has de- ucation, we at PoliTeknik International, three reviewers have the ernments, Teachers Unions and Civil prived millions of children from their welcome you. We are looking forward opportunity to address Society Organisations have contributed human right to education. Additionally, to collaborate with youths, student our readers. to education movements and millions privatization has become philosophy of union, teachers organisations, INGOs, of children got their human right to ed- Governance and there is huge challeng- local NGOs and different National Gov- ucation. The "Education For All (EFA)" es in making human right to education ernment, Public Policy forums for mak- and Millenium Development Goals a reality with help of privatization. Na- ing "Human Right to Education" a reali- (MDG) marked a signifi cant develop- tional Governments are rolling back ty for all children. ment in right to education of children. from public education, public health, Continue on page 3 PoliTeknik United Page: 2 International JANUARY-APRIL | Edition: No. 1 CONTENT Page 1, 3, 4 Page 12-15 Page 22, 23 Page 8 Page 16 Page 9 Page 23 Page 17, 19 Page 5 Page 10 Page 20, 21 Page 24-26 Page 11 Page 6, 7 Page 28 IMPRESSUM PoliTeknik International Editorial Board every 4 months ISSN 2628-0833 Kumar Ratan (India) Can Aydın (Germany/Turkey) [email protected] Tamralipta Patra (India) Malathie M. Seneviratne (Sri Lanka) www.politeknik-international.org Publisher Akash Yadav (India) Hewa G. Cyril (Sri Lanka) Verein für Allseitige Bildung e.V. Ashley Mabasa (South Africa) Vihara Savindi Perera (Sri Lanka) (Germany) Yonela Mlambo (South Africa) Dhainika Wickramakaluthota Dr. Derya Özkul (England/Turkey) (Sri Lanka) Zeynel Korkmaz (Coordination) PoliTeknik United JANUARY-APRIL | Edition: No. 1 International Page: 3 Editorial Message PoliTeknik International Editorial board of PoliTeknik International – Kumar Ratan (India) – Tamralipta Patra (India) – Akash Yadav (India) – Ashley Mabasa (South Africa) – Yonela Mlambo (South Africa) – Dr. Derya Özkul (England/Turkey) – Can Aydın (Germany/Turkey) – Malathie M. Seneviratne (Sri Lanka) – Hewa G. Cyril (Sri Lanka) – Vihara Pereira (Sri Lanka) Kumar Ratan Tamralipta Patra Ashley Mabasa Malathie M. Seneviratne Hewa G. Cyril – Dhainika Wickramakaluthota India India South Africa Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka) Vihara Perera Akash Yadav Dr. Derya Özkul Yonela Mlambo Can Aydın Dhainika Wickramakalut- Sri Lanka India England/Turkey South Africa Germany/Turkey hota Sri Lanka Editorial Message Sharing Knowings and PoliTeknik Português Rehearsing Alternatives: Teachers from public or private tions and community life and enhanc- er and educator from northeast of schools can participate and also stu- ing dialogue with social movements, Brazil, Paulo Freire), it’s impossible for an intercultural dialogue in dents from schools and universities, reafi rming the role of education (in a real access and continuance to chil- defense of Human Right to Education university professors and those ones scholar and non-scholar spaces) as a dren and adolescents, adults and the as a practice of freedom who act with social and community fundamental right and a public good. elderly, foremost in the scholar space. movements, whom, with their experi- It’s necessary that inside schools and In the 27th of october of 2018, we’ve ences, are collaborating in the sense Nowadays, in January of 2020, universities there are knowings and been joined at University of Koblenz, that actually is possible to build a fra- according with UNESCO data, “258 experiences from all and that school in Germany, in order to share know- ternal society, with justice, with free- million children and young still not and university be the very spaces to ings and rehearsing alternatives in dom, with participation, creativity attend school; 617 milion children contribute to the extension of human the fi eld of extending the Human Right and criticality. and young doesn’t know reading and right to education. to Education. In this meeting, marked basic maths; less than 40% percent of by a will of collective work, we have Each of our nations has its own his- girls in sub-saharian Africa conclude We complete this editorial mes- debated about challenges, perspec- torical trajectory, with specifi c experi- secondary school”. The human right sage inviting all to participate in this tives and possibilities to overcome ences in the fi eld of human rights and to education of these kids and adoles- movement, specially sharing your situations that hamper the access of the human right to education, that can cents may be beeing violated and this social and educational experiences, children, young, adults and the elderly be shared and enhance our percep- is unacceptable. that even often facing challenges, are to scholar education. tions about these themes, opportuniz- contributing for building a creative, ing actions and ideas for extending What is it that global leaders of busi- critical, democratic, participative, re- As we took off from the conference, the human right to education. ness and politics, joined in Davos, are specting and dignous society. back into our homelands, it was clear feeling, thinking and acting over the- for everyone the necessity of, collec- Thereafter, extending the Human ses and many others situations that Lastly, we want to recover a Paulo tively, organizing ways of encouraging Right to Education is also extending mistreat human dignity? Freire’s thought, whose, in 2021, we and strenghtening an intercultural di- the right to take education as com- will be celebrating 100 years of birth. alogue. Because of that, fellows from munity experience, broadening our With no sharing of knowings and In his book, Pedagogy of the Opressed, Brazil, India and Chile have assumed cultural identities, expanding artic- no reaharsal of alternatives, in a dia- he remembers us that “very modestly, the engagement of organizing local ulations between education institu- logical perspective (as defends think- if noth- ing remains of these pages, versions of PoliTeknik Journal. In this at least, we hope that re- sense, it’s beeing possible now, after a Prof. Dr. Alexandre Magno Camila Antero de Santana Joana Maria Kastle Silva Mikael Menezes mains: our confi dence and PoliTeknik Português/Brazil long way of collective action, sharing Tavares da Silva University of Paraíba/ Brazil PoliTeknik Português/Brazil faith in people. Our faith in knowings and rehearsing alternatives University of Paraíba/ Brazil mankind, in the creation of in Portuguese, Spanish and English. a world in wich is less diffi - cult to love”. Therefore, we invite comrades from countries that have Portuguese, Span- We’d be happy with your ish or English as a national language, contributions in form of ar- to share their local experiences about ticle, experience reports, in- the Human Right to Education. The terviews, etc., for Politeknik contribution can be in form of inter- Journal in Portuguese, views, experience reports, articles, Spanish, or English. etc. So long! PoliTeknik United Page: 4 International JANUARY-APRIL | Edition: No. 1 Editorial Message
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