ABSTRACT
This volume offers critical analysis of national school reform policies intended to align with global agendas to promote educational quality and equity.
By uniquely foregrounding the need for education reform to nurture child well-being alongside traditional measures of academic achievement, the book identifies common challenges across the Global North and South and extends insights provided by international student assessment data. Chapters offer a close analysis of reform practices in countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas to consider cultural, social, political, and functional aspects which drive or inhibit the success of reform initiatives. Providing excellent insights into holistic education for children and youth, this book highlights lessons to support global efforts in providing high-quality, equitable education for the whole child.
Developing international knowledge and supplementing international data, this volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers with an interest in education policy, as well as comparative and international education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|74 pages
Developing World
chapter 1|17 pages
Whole-Child/Youth Development Initiatives in the Ethiopian education policy reforms and practices
chapter 2|17 pages
The status of early childhood education in South Africa
chapter 3|19 pages
Achieving whole-child development in Nepal
chapter 4|19 pages
Education for Vietnamese youth
part II|118 pages
Developed World
chapter 6|21 pages
Singapore's Student-Centred, Values-Driven education system
chapter 7|19 pages
The Oxymoron of Free Semester Program (FSP) in Korea
chapter 8|18 pages
Fighting social inequalities at schools and whole-child development approach
chapter 9|18 pages
The long Chilean road toward an inclusive education system
chapter 10|21 pages
Re-envisioning American Education Reform
part III|12 pages
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