ABSTRACT
The spread of forms of schooling beyond the school gate is, as many of the contributors to this volume can testify, a truly global phenomenon. Yet whether the persistence of the institutional form of schooling can be said to have brought about a “totally pedagogicised society”, as outlined in Chapter 1, remains contested. This brief concluding chapter brings together the themes of this volume in order to reflect on how an international comparative analysis of out-of-school can help us understand the significance and meaning of education around the world today.
