Rethinking Education: Equity concerns in today’s global learning landscape

Event date: 
Friday 5 May to Saturday 6 May
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
Moray House School of Education

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Speaker: Dr Carlos Vargas-Tamez, Senior Project Officer, Partnerships Cooperation and Research, UNESCO

Background:

Rethinking Education: Towards a global common good? (UNESCO, 2015) was published at a particular historical juncture when the international education and development community moved towards the global framework of Sustainable Development Goals.

The presentation will briefly recount the publication’s main postulates and will expand on its conclusions, raising some fundamental questions regarding inequalities in education and the challenges entailed in achieving the intention of leaving no one behind.

Rethinking Education: Equity concerns in today’s global learning landscape

Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh

Friday, 5 May 2017 from 17:00 to 18:30 (BST)

Edinburgh, United Kingdom