Education and International Development

Tristan McCowan is Professor of International Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He is the author of Rethinking Citizenship Education (2009), Education as a Human Right (2013), and Higher Education For and Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (2019). He is editor of Compare journal.Elaine Unterhalter is Professor of Education and International Development at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. She is the author of Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice (2007), co-author of Education, Poverty and Global Goals for Gender Equality (2018), editor of Measuring the Unmeasurable in Education (2018) and co-editor of Global Inequalities and Higher Education (2010) and Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships (2020).

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Histories, Ideas and Actors in International Education1. Histories of the Field of Education and International Development, Elaine Unterhalter (University College London, UK) 2. Theories of Development, Tristan McCowan (University College London, UK) 3. The Education for All Initiative and the Sustainable Development Goals: History and Prospects Karen Mundy and Caroline Manion (University of Toronto, Canada) 4. Decolonial Perspectives on Education and International Development, Lerato Posholi (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and Pablo Del Monte (University of the Free State, South Africa) 5. Power, Participation and Partnerships in Research, Ian Warwick, Elaine Chase and Rosie Vaughan (University College London, UK) Part II: Key Themes6. Schools, Citizens and the Nation-State, Susan Garnett Russell (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) and Monisha Bajaj (University of San Francisco, USA) 7. The Education-Economic Growth Nexus, Monazza Aslam (University of Oxford, UK) and Shenila Rawal (University of Bristol, UK) 8. Addressing Intersecting Inequalities in Education, Elaine Unterhalter (University College London, UK) 9. Teachers and Teacher Education Policies, Gita Steiner-Khamsi (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA)10. Quality Education and Global Learning Metrics, William C. Smith and Aaron Benavot (University at Albany SUNY, USA) 11. De Facto and By-design Privatization of Education in Developing Countries, Joanna Härmä (University of Sussex) 12. (Re)examining the Politics of Education in Crisis and Conflict-affected Contexts, Ritesh Shah (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and Mieke Lopes Cardozo (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 13. Education, Religion and Values, Eva Sajoo (University of British Columbia, Canada) 14. Languages and Identities, Sheila Aikman (University of East Anglia, UK) 15. Livelihoods and Skills, Stephanie Matseleng Allais (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) 16. Adult Education: Movements, Policies and Processes, Charlotte Nussey (University College London, UK)17. Higher Education and Development: Critical Issues and Debates, Rebecca Schendel and Tristan McCowan (University College London, UK) 18. Education, Environmental Crises and Sustainability, Meera Tiwari (University of East London, UK) Conclusion: An Interview with Anita Rampal (University of Delhi, India) References Index

This is a well-crafted edited volume that provides one of the best introductions to the field of education and international development. The second, fully updated, edition captures the challenges that emerged with Covid-19, Black Lives Matters and ongoing events. Readers will engage with a diversity of literatures while deepening their own knowledge with critical reflexivity.