TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hughes,Phillip
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Achieving Quality Education for All: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region and Beyond 
T2  - Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
SN  - 9789400752948
AV  - LB43 
U1  - 370.116 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Education
KW  - International education
KW  - Comparative education
KW  - Educational policy
KW  - ducation and state
KW  - Lifelong learning
KW  - Adult education
KW  - International and Comparative Education
KW  - Educational Policy and Politics
KW  - Lifelong Learning/Adult Education
N1  - Introduction; Kelli Hughes -- Introduction by the Series Editors; Rupert Maclean -- Foreword: Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom; Phillip Hughes -- SECTION 1: The Public Sector in Education -- SECTION 2: Quality in Teaching -- SECTION 3: Making Equity Work -- SECTION 4: Looking More Widely -- SECTION 5: Concluding Comments -- Index
N2  - Due to the development of the international Education for All and Education for Sustainable Development movements, for which UNESCO is the lead agency, there has been an increasing emphasis on the power of education and schooling to help build more just and equitable societies. This seeks to give everyone the opportunity to develop their talents to the full, regardless of characteristics such as gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, religious persuasion, or regional location. As enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights over five decades ago, everyone has the right to receive a high quality and relevant education. In order to try to achieve this ideal, many countries are substantially re-engineering their education systems with an increasing emphasis on promoting equity and fairness, and on ensuring that everyone has access to a high quality and relevant education. They are also moving away from the traditional outlook of almost exclusively stressing formal education in schools as the most valuable way in which people learn, to accepting that important and valuable learning does not just occur in formal, dedicated education institutions, but also through informal and non-formal means. Thus learning is both lifelong and life-wide. This book brings together the experience and research of 40 recognised and experienced opinion leaders in education around the world. The book investigates the most effective ways of ensuring the UNESCO aim of effective education for all people in the belief that not only should education be a right for all, but also that education and schooling has the potential to transform individual lives and to contribute to the development of more just, humane and equitable societies
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5294-8
ER  -