Grading Goal Four

Tensions, Threats, and Opportunities in the Sustainable Development Goal on Quality Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43034-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 470 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

For the third time in three decades world leaders reaffirmed their promise of "Education For All" when adopting Sustainable Development Goal 4 in 2015. It is the most far-reaching commitment to quality and equity in education so far, yet, there is no consensus on what the agenda means in practice.

With a decade left until the 2030 deadline, Grading Goal Four calls upon the education community to engage more thoughtfully and critically with SDG 4 and related efforts. As an ever-growing number of actors and initiatives claim to contribute to its achievement, it is becoming clear that the ambitious but broad priorities within the goal are vulnerable to cherry-picking and misrepresentation, placing it at the heart of tensions between instrumentalist and rights-based approaches to education. This text, a critical analysis of SDG 4, provides a framework for examining trends and developments in education globally.

As the first volume that examines early implementation efforts under SDG 4, Grading Goal Four formulates a critique along with strategies for moving forward. By scrutinising the challenges, tensions and power dynamics shaping SDG 4, it advances rights-based perspectives and strategies for effective implementation and builds capacity for strengthened monitoring and analysis of the goal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wulff, Antonia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Bringing out the Tensions, Challenges, and Opportunities within Sustainable Development Goal 4

Antonia Wulff

2 The Twists and Turns in Negotiating a Global Education Goal: A Civil Society Perspective

Antonia Wulff

3 Gender Equality, Education, and Development: Tensions between Global, National, and Local Policy Discourses in Postcolonial Contexts

Naureen Durrani and Anjum Halai

4 Quality Education for All? The Promises and Limitations of the SDG Framework for Inclusive Education and Students with Disabilities

Christopher J. Johnstone, Matthew J. Schuelka and Ghada Swadek

5 A Critical Exploration of How Language-of-Instruction Choices Affect Educational Equity

Lizzi O. Milligan, Zubeida Desai and Carol Benson

6 Universities, the Public Good, and the SDG 4 Vision

Stephanie Allais, Colleen Howell, Palesa Molebatsi, Lerato Posholi and Elaine Unterhalter

7 Education for All Open for Business? Public Goods vs. Private Profits

Alexandra Draxler

8 Financing SDG 4: Context, Challenges, and Solutions

David Archer and Tanvir Muntasim

9 SDG 4 and the ‘Education Quality Turn’: Prospects, Possibilities, and Problems

Yusuf Sayed and Kate Moriarty

10 Teachers Are More Than ‘Supply’: Toward Meaningful Measurement of Pedagogy and Teachers in SDG 4

Stephanie Bengtsson, Mamusu Kamanda, Jo Ailwood and Bilal Barakat

11 Reshaping Quality and Equity: Global Learning Metrics as a Ready-Made Solution to a Manufactured Crisis

Aaron Benavot and William C. Smith

12 Learning Assessments in the Time of SDGs: New Actors and Evolving Alliances in the Construction of a Global Field

Clara Fontdevila

13 Can Education Transform Our World? Global Citizenship Education and the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Joel Westheimer

14 Will Education Post-2015 Move Us toward Environmental Sustainability?

Hiraku Komatsu, Jeremy Rappleye and Iveta Silova

15 Reflections on Targets and TVET

Stephanie Allais and Volker Wedekind

16 Between Tokenism and Inclusion: The Student Movement in the Post-2015 Process

Luke Shore and Viktor Grønne

17 The Right to Education and SDG 4: Lessons from the Field and Next Steps for Civil Society Monitoring

Allyson Krupar and Anjela Taneja

APPENDIX 1: SDG 4 Targets

Antonia Wulff

APPENDIX 2: SDG 4 Targets and Indicators

Antonia Wulff

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Antonia Wulff is a Coordinator at Education International and led EI’s advocacy in the negotiations on the SDGs. She is a board member of the Global Campaign for Education and has a background in the European student movement.