Description:
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This book examines how education can drive change for marginalized communities across the Global South. Drawing on evidence from 67 projects in India, Rwanda, Somaliland/Somalia and South Africa, the book shows how education can expand youth livelihoods, strengthen sustainable cities and advance climate action.
Yet for education to fulfil this role, it must be reimagined -- tackling entrenched inequalities of class, caste, clan, gender, race, rurality and indigeneity. Arguing for more democratic, public and inclusive forms of education, the book calls for research that prioritizes collaboration and equity over top-down models, offering a bold new agenda for transformative practice.
Brief description: Keri Facer is Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol and Leadership Fellow for the AHRC Connected Communities Programme. She works on the relationship between formal education, informal learning and the development of public capacity to address social, technological and environmental change.
Review Quotes: 'This timely book exemplifies evidence-based, future-oriented action to co-create knowledge and advance decolonizing education - an essential model we need more of.' Tingting Yuan, University of Nottingham