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For the third time in three decades world leaders reaffirmed their promise of "Education For All" when adopting Sustainable Development Goal 4 in 2015. It is the most far-reaching commitment to quality and equity in education so far, yet, there is no consensus on what the agenda means in practice.
With a decade left until the 2030 deadline, Grading Goal Four calls upon the education community to engage more thoughtfully and critically with SDG 4 and related efforts. As an ever-growing number of actors and initiatives claim to contribute to its achievement, it is becoming clear that the ambitious but broad priorities within the goal are vulnerable to cherry-picking and misrepresentation, placing it at the heart of tensions between instrumentalist and rights-based approaches to education. This text, a critical analysis of SDG 4, provides a framework for examining trends and developments in education globally.
As the first volume that examines early implementation efforts under SDG 4, Grading Goal Four formulates a critique along with strategies for moving forward. By scrutinising the challenges, tensions and power dynamics shaping SDG 4, it advances rights-based perspectives and strategies for effective implementation and builds capacity for strengthened monitoring and analysis of the goal.
With a decade left until the 2030 deadline, Grading Goal Four calls upon the education community to engage more thoughtfully and critically with SDG 4 and related efforts. As an ever-growing number of actors and initiatives claim to contribute to its achievement, it is becoming clear that the ambitious but broad priorities within the goal are vulnerable to cherry-picking and misrepresentation, placing it at the heart of tensions between instrumentalist and rights-based approaches to education. This text, a critical analysis of SDG 4, provides a framework for examining trends and developments in education globally.
As the first volume that examines early implementation efforts under SDG 4, Grading Goal Four formulates a critique along with strategies for moving forward. By scrutinising the challenges, tensions and power dynamics shaping SDG 4, it advances rights-based perspectives and strategies for effective implementation and builds capacity for strengthened monitoring and analysis of the goal.
Price: $72.00
Pages: 470
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
16 April 2020
ISBN: 9789004430341
Format: Paperback
"Even in these troubling times, the Sustainable Development Goal for education will be the guide for education policy around the world between now and 2030. Grading Goal Four is a tour de force, critically examining the past and future of SDG4. Antonia Wullf has gathered a brilliant array of scholars and activists who put the right to education at the forefront in understanding the challenges, tensions, and possibilities SDG4 offers. This is must reading for anyone concerned with education today!" - Steven Klees, Professor of International Education Policy, University of Maryland, and Former President, Comparative and International Education Society
Antonia Wulff is a Coordinator at Education International and led EI’s advocacy in the negotiations on the SDGs. She is a board member of the Global Campaign for Education and has a background in the European student movement.