Education and International Development

Education and International Development provides an introduction to the debates on education and international development, giving an overview of the history, influential theories, key concepts, areas of achievement and emerging trends in policy and practice.

Written by leading academics from Canada, India, Netherlands, South Africa, UK, USA, and New Zealand, this second edition has been fully updated in light of recent changes in the field, such as the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals and the increased focus on environmental sustainability and equality. The book includes three new chapters on private providers, decolonisation and learning outcomes as well as a range of pedagogical features including key concept boxes, biographies of influential thinkers and practitioners, further reading lists, questions for reflection and debate, and case studies from around the developing world.

Tristan McCowan is Professor of International Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He is the author of Rethinking Citizenship Education (2009), Education as a Human Right (2013), and Higher Education For and Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (2019). He is editor of Compare journal.

Elaine Unterhalter is Professor of Education and International Development at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. She is the author of Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice (2007), co-author of Education, Poverty and Global Goals for Gender Equality (2018), editor of Measuring the Unmeasurable in Education (2018) and co-editor of Global Inequalities and Higher Education (2010) and Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships (2020).