Education and Social Change: Connecting Local and Global Perspectives - Hardcover

Geoffrey Elliott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826444091 ISBN 13: 9780826444097

Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2010

Synopsis

This is a timely consideration with an increased awareness of global issues and the role education can play in helping to resolve these concerns. Education policy and practice has historically been developed within the local context. However, globalisation has prompted educationalists to review their practice in the light of international influences. Global issues such as global warming, conflict and the depletion of earth resources have also contributed to an increased awareness of the role of education can play in resolving these problems. This text goes further, investigating the potential for creating a transnational value system in education, focusing on some key human rights issues both at home and overseas. It sets up a dialogue between practitioners with the objective of using mutual learning to enrich the quality of discourse through better knowledge of and respect for 'the other'. The contributors focus on how education can bring about social change, connecting with theory at the level of cultural impact and policy implications. Truly international in scope, this text lays the groundwork for future research by exposing the commonalities and differences in approaches to knowledge production and its dissemination, drawing together contributions from a variety of cross cultural contexts.

About this title

About the Author

Geoffrey Elliott is Professor of Lifelong Learning at the University of Worcester, UK. Chahid Fourali is an independent consultant and Founder/Managing Director of BetterStill Ltd. Sally Issler is an independent consultant.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826444091
• ISBN 13: 9780826444097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Geoffrey Elliott, Chahid Fourali, Sally Issler