Overview
- Equips readers with a deeper understanding of the challenges facing education and development agencies in the global knowledge society
- Provides an insider’s account of the role played by the international community in supporting quality education for all, lifelong learning and education reform
- Offers a uniquely global perspective on the power of education to change societies, trends in education policy and practice, and progress being made in achieving internationally-agreed education and development goals
- Challenging and insightful, combines scholarly analysis with practical examples of how international programs contribute to building a more equitable, peaceful and sustainable world
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 27)
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“one of the best I have read (on education and development) in the last decade.”
“A wonderful story teller - engages readers in a way most authors are unable to do:”
“Well presented, both in terms of content, coverage, analysis and scholarship.”
“Strongest aspect of the work is the analytic framework defining the various chapters”
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Power of Education
Book Subtitle: Education for All, Development, Globalisation and UNESCO
Authors: Colin Power
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-221-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-220-3Published: 07 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1240-2Published: 11 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-221-0Published: 23 October 2014
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 280