A Legal Analysis of a Human Rights Based Approach to Digitalised Education in South Africa
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https://doi.org/10.37870/joqie.v16i27.526Keywords:
funding, higher education, policy framework quality educationAbstract
This paper scrutinises the interpretation of the content and scope of a human rights approach to digitalised education in South Africa. It further examines the relevance and effectiveness of the legal instruments that provide and promote the right to have access to digitalised education within a human rights framework in South Africa. By locating the right to have access to education, as enshrined in section 29 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (‘the Constitution’), this paper shows that digital education plays an important role in recalibrating and preparing learners for the digitalised economy of the 21st century. Finally, this paper concludes by addressing the extent to which South Africa has utilised local and international instruments that promote inclusive education to improve the content and nature of the right to have access to digitalised education.
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