Editors:
- Offers suggestions at international level on funding school systems, organizing schools and developing effective teachers
- Covers research from ten very different countries, thus providing wide variety and means of comparison
- Recognises the approaches which demonstrate that Education for All is now achievable
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 20)
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Prelude: The Public Sector in Education
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Front Matter
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Prelude. The public sector in education
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Prelude: Quality in Teaching
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Front Matter
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Prelude. Quality in teaching
About this book
Due to the development of the international Education for All and Education for Sustainable Development movements, for which UNESCO is the lead agency, there has been an increasing emphasis on the power of education and schooling to help build more just and equitable societies. Thus giving everyone the opportunity to develop their talents to the full, regardless of characteristics such as gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, religious persuasion, or regional location. As enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights over five decades ago, everyone has the right to receive a high quality and relevant education. In order to try to achieve this ideal, many countries are substantially re-engineering their education systems with an increasing emphasis on promoting equity and fairness, and on ensuring that everyone has access to a high quality and relevant education. They are also moving away from the traditional outlook of almost exclusively stressing formal education in schools as the most valuable way in which people learn, to accepting that important and valuable learning does not just occur in formal, dedicated education institutions, but also through informal and non-formal means. Thus learning is both lifelong and life-wide. This book brings together the experience and research of 40 recognised and experienced opinion leaders in education around the world. The book investigates the most effective ways of ensuring the UNESCO aim of effective education for all people in the belief that not only should education be a right for all, but also that education and schooling has the potential to transform individual lives and to contribute to the development of more just, humane and equitable societies.
Keywords
- Education development
- Education for All
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Education research for sustainable development
- Education systems
- Effective education
- Equitable societies
- Equity and education
- Functions of education and schooling
- Human rights
- International Commission on Education
- Life-wide learning
- Lifelong learning
- Lifespan Development
- Phillip Hughes
- Sustainable development
- Teacher-learner partnership
- The power of education and schooling
- Transformational education
- UNESCO
Editors and Affiliations
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Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Phillip Hughes
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Achieving Quality Education for All
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region and Beyond
Editors: Phillip Hughes
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5294-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5293-1Published: 14 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8247-0Published: 14 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5294-8Published: 13 November 2012
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 244
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education