Education and Social Change Connecting local and global perspectives

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A timely consideration with an increased awareness of global issues And The role education can play in helping to resolve these concerns.

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Tables and Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Notes on the contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Global Policy Context	p. 11
Lessons from comparative and international education	p. 15
Education for all: a freedom-based approach	p. 27
Women's education in the developing world	p. 38
Self-assessment in the further education college of a small state	p. 51
The contribution of European programmes to social change	p. 62
Community Integration and Inclusion	p. 75
Social marketing	p. 79
Basic education status of Afghan refugees in Iran	p. 94
Respecting difference in early childhood centres in Northern Ireland	p. 108
Elitism, inclusion and the specialist school	p. 122
Higher education and civic and community engagement in the UK	p. 135
Curriculum Reform	p. 147
Beyond borders: expanding the uses of work-based learning	p. 151
Government policy and teacher education in Ghana	p. 162
Transforming China's adult and continuing education	p. 175
An 'essential attributes' approach to curriculum reform	p. 187
Reforming VET for social cohesion	p. 204
Learning and Pedagogy	p. 221
Transformative learning for a global society	p. 225
Postcolonial and post-critical 'global citizenship education'	p. 238
Validation of non-formal and informal learning in Europe	p. 251
Transnational co-operation in learning support for disabled learners	p. 263
Vocational Education	p. 274
Conclusions and implications	p. 287
Selected Bibliography	p. 299
Selected Resources	p. 303
Index	p. 307
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