1st Edition

Commonwealth Education Adapting to Survive

Edited By Beth Kreling, Peter R.C. Williams Copyright 2023
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

Education, once regarded as a key pillar of Commonwealth activity, is increasingly inconspicuous on Commonwealth agendas. Written to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the first Commonwealth Education Conference in 1959, the chapters in this volume reflect on the past, present, and future of Commonwealth educational cooperation. This book reviews some of the principal dimensions of education... Read more

Preface

Beth Kreling and Peter R. C. Williams

Introduction – Staying Relevant: Commonwealth Education at 60

Beth Kreling and Peter R. C. Williams

1. The Sustainable Development Goals for Education: Commonwealth Perspectives and Opportunities

Keith M. Lewin

2. Achieving the Promise to Leave No Girl behind in Commonwealth Countries

Rebecca Gordon, Lauren Marston, Pauline Rose and Asma Zubairi

3. India’s South-South Cooperation in Human Resource Development

Kenneth King and Pravina King

4. Commonwealth Student Exchange 1959–2019 – Planned and Unplanned

Hilary Perraton

5. Commonwealth Engagement in Education: Prospects in the Era of SDGs

Cream Wright

6. ‘Regimes Theory’ as an Approach to Understanding Educational Cooperation in CARICOM and Commonwealth Countries

tavis d. jules

7. The Future Use of Technology in Education and Learning in the Commonwealth

Tim Unwin

8. Commonwealth Small States, Education and Environmental Uncertainty: Learning from the Sharp End

Michael Crossley and Pearlette Louisy

Biography

Beth Kreling is Senior Policy Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Secretary of the Commonwealth Consortium for Education, London, UK.

Peter Williams is Honorary President of the Commonwealth Consortium for Education, former Professor of Education in Developing Countries at the University of London's Institute of Education, and from 1984 to 1994 Director of Education at the Commonwealth Secretariat.