An Interpretation of the Right to Education in the light of Rawls’ Theory

• Autor(a) principal: Rohling, Marcos
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educação
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/faced/article/view/16351
• topic: Rawls. Right to education. Education. Justice as fairness. Theories of justice.; Direito à educação. Educação. Justiça como equidade. Teorias da justiça.; Rawls. Derecho a la educación. Educación. Justicia como equidad. Teorías de la justicia. *

This text has the purpose to discuss what is a right to education from the theory of justice as fairness to Rawls. Therefore, it is divided in five parts: i) firstly, discusses the right to education in the Brazilian case in view of constitutional provision; ii) it follows evaluating the state’s role in the thought of Rawls and it argues up the ideas of society and primary goods, viewed as the background of education; iii) explains the right to education from TJ as legitimate expectation, and the modifications made by Rawls to justice as fairness, presenting it as part of the minimum essential and therefore as social law constitutional; and, finally, iv) explores the role and function of education as is Rawls’s theory allows.