Description: An engaging discussion about the functions of education, drawing on a range of educational situations. >
Brief description: Colin Brock was Honorary Professor of Education at the University of Durham, UK, and Visiting Professor of Geography at the University of Loughborough, UK. He was also UNESCO Chair of Education as a Humanitarian Response at the University of Oxford, UK.
Review Quotes: 'Education as a Global Concern is a timely and valuable contribution to the world of comparative and international education. The global perspectives it encourages the reader to reflect on, and the discourse on education as a humanitarian response, in which it is argued that education is far more than formal schooling or limited to the narrow context of disasters, should make it essential reading for policy makers as well as students of education or social science disciplines. By drawing on numerous examples from across the globe the author has expertly shown how political, historical, social and geographical dimensions have contributed to the current distorted state of education. Colin Brock argues for a new approach based on partnerships and the local community including non formal and informal learning as well as formal learning as the way forward.'
Keith Borien, Chief Executive Officer of the Borien Education Foundation for Southern Africa (BEFSA), South Africa