Grading Goal Four : Tensions, Threats, and Opportunities in the Sustainable Development Goal on Quality Education

Grading Goal Four Tensions, Threats, and Opportunities in the Sustainable Development Goal on Quality Education

For the third time in three decades world leaders reaffirmed their promise of "Education For All" when adopting Sustainable Development Goal 4 in 2015. It is the most far-reaching commitment to quality and equity in education so far, yet, there is no consensus on what the agenda means in p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wulff, Antonia, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill [2020]
Edición:First edition
Materias:
Educational equalization.
Sustainable development.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: Bringing out the Tensions, Challenges, and Opportunities within Sustainable Development Goal 4
  • Antonia Wulff
  • 2 The Twists and Turns in Negotiating a Global Education Goal: A Civil Society Perspective
  • Antonia Wulff
  • 3 Gender Equality, Education, and Development: Tensions between Global, National, and Local Policy Discourses in Postcolonial Contexts
  • Naureen Durrani and Anjum Halai
  • 4 Quality Education for All? The Promises and Limitations of the SDG Framework for Inclusive Education and Students with Disabilities
  • Christopher J. Johnstone, Matthew J. Schuelka and Ghada Swadek
  • 5 A Critical Exploration of How Language-of-Instruction Choices Affect Educational Equity
  • Lizzi O. Milligan, Zubeida Desai and Carol Benson
  • 6 Universities, the Public Good, and the SDG 4 Vision
  • Stephanie Allais, Colleen Howell, Palesa Molebatsi, Lerato Posholi and Elaine Unterhalter
  • 7 Education for All Open for Business? Public Goods vs. Private Profits
  • Alexandra Draxler
  • 8 Financing SDG 4: Context, Challenges, and Solutions
  • David Archer and Tanvir Muntasim
  • 9 SDG 4 and the ‘Education Quality Turn’: Prospects, Possibilities, and Problems
  • Yusuf Sayed and Kate Moriarty
  • 10 Teachers Are More Than ‘Supply’: Toward Meaningful Measurement of Pedagogy and Teachers in SDG 4
  • Stephanie Bengtsson, Mamusu Kamanda, Jo Ailwood and Bilal Barakat
  • 11 Reshaping Quality and Equity: Global Learning Metrics as a Ready-Made Solution to a Manufactured Crisis
  • Aaron Benavot and William C. Smith
  • 12 Learning Assessments in the Time of SDGs: New Actors and Evolving Alliances in the Construction of a Global Field
  • Clara Fontdevila
  • 13 Can Education Transform Our World? Global Citizenship Education and the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
  • Joel Westheimer
  • 14 Will Education Post-2015 Move Us toward Environmental Sustainability?
  • Hiraku Komatsu, Jeremy Rappleye and Iveta Silova
  • 15 Reflections on Targets and TVET
  • Stephanie Allais and Volker Wedekind
  • 16 Between Tokenism and Inclusion: The Student Movement in the Post-2015 Process
  • Luke Shore and Viktor Grønne
  • 17 The Right to Education and SDG 4: Lessons from the Field and Next Steps for Civil Society Monitoring
  • Allyson Krupar and Anjela Taneja
  • APPENDIX 1: SDG 4 Targets
  • Antonia Wulff
  • APPENDIX 2: SDG 4 Targets and Indicators
  • Antonia Wulff
  • References
  • Index.

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