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Book SynopsisThis book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.
Trade ReviewIn an age of ever mounting challenges, it is essential to reimagine and transform our approach to education to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors necessary for sustainable development. The Global Compact for Education calls on all of us to prioritize inclusive and transformative education for a sustainable tomorrow. -- Ban Ki-moon, eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and cochair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens
Imagine: education for all would employ the languages of the head, heart, and hands. It would give us purpose in life. It would infuse us with the motivation to pursue truth, goodness and creativity, while working to mend the fabric of human relationships. This book makes me want to make that vision reality. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Pope Francis’s urgent call for a new compact on education is timely and should serve as a wake-up call. While many heads of state play their power games, hundreds of millions of children suffer and miss what they so obviously need: a solid education. This authoritative book sketches out what should be done and shows how. Clear-eyed about contemporary crises of pandemic, climate change, and heartbreaking migration, the authors offer an impressive range of educational insight and reform. -- Jerry Brown, former governor of California
This volume brings together some of the very best minds from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as they respond to Pope Francis' visionary “summons to solidarity” for a new global compact on education. The chapters, carefully crafted and curated for the volume, address the need for education practices and policies to promote healthy, flourishing and engaged children. The authors coalesce in defining critical issues in education today: early childhood education as a foundation for learning, education and social inequality, the needs of children from more vulnerable populations, education as a moral responsibility, and much more. This is a book for our times, as we strive to educate children across the world for purposeful lives. -- Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith College
In this timely, engaging, and compelling book, the authors describe how education can be reformed so that students in nations around the world can attain the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively in a highly technological, diverse, complex, and changing world. Once again, editors Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco have assembled a group of eminent scholars who enrich this book with original and trenchant insights. This innovative and informative book deserves a wide and influential audience. -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, Seattle
How can education address the social, moral and environmental crises of our time? This important and unique volume combines rigorous cutting-edge research and a strong ethical foundation to address issues in education across the globe. Foregrounding the well-being and flourishing of children, the scholars assembled here provide cogent accounts of inequalities and injustices, as well as hopeful calls to action to improve and provide access to quality education for all. This volume deserves a wide readership across academia and among policy makers. It is both a clear eyes assessment of the present state of education, and a clarion call to work towards a better future. -- Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Table of ContentsForeword. Education: The Global Compact, by the Holy Father Pope Francis
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Global Compact on Education, by Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
Part I. Addressing Our Most Vulnerable1. Education and Inequality, by Jeffrey D. Sachs
2. Education, Health, and Demography, by David E. Bloom and Maddalena Ferranna,
3. Child Poverty and Cognition: Developmental and Educational Implications, by Sebastián Lipina
4. Education for Refugee and Displaced Children, by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Dana Burde and J. Lawrence Aber
5. The Consequences of Emergency and Humanitarian Relief Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey and Lebanon, by Maha Shuayb, Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie
6. Countering Cascading Xenophobia: Educational Settings at the Frontline, by Carola Suárez-Orozco
Part II. Ethical and Civic Considerations7. Education as a Moral Responsibility, by Stefano Zamagni
8. On Educating the Three Virtues: A Hegelian Approach, by Howard Gardner
9. Ethics in Education and Education of Ethics, by Vittorio Hosle
10. Education for a Purposeful Life, by William Damon and Anne Colby
11. Educating for Democracy in Contentious Times, by John Rogers
Part III. Educating for a Sustainable Future12. Climate Change Education for All: Bending the Curve Education Project, by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Fonna Forman, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Alan Roper, Scott Friese, Karen Flammer,, Hahrie Han, Adam Millard-Ball, Paula Ezcurra, and Astrid Hsu
13. Education for Sustainable Development, by Radhika Iyengar, Haein Shin, and Tara Stafford Ocansey
Part IV. The Foundations of Education14. Early Childhood Education in Reggio Emilia and the World, by Carla Rinaldi
15. Addressing our Global Developmental Emergency: Early Intervention and the Think Equal Early Years Program, by Leslee Udwin
16. The Future of Literacy in a Digital Culture: Promise and Perils, by Maryanne Wolf
17. The Feeling of Reading in a Changing World: From Neurons to Narratives, by Tami Katzir
Part V. The Futures of Education18. Global Learning Ecologies: Leveraging Technologies for Equity, by Brigid Barron
19. Improvement Science: The Social Glue that Helps Helpers Help?, by Louis M. Gomez, Manuelito Biag, and David G. Imig
20. UNESCO and the Futures of Education, by Stefania Giannini
Afterword: Universal Education: An Essential Pillar for All Sustainable Development Goals, by Jennifer Gross, Peter Stengaard, and Vanessa Fajans-Turner
List of Contributors
Index
