International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education
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SUMMARY
Although universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by international organizations,
bilateral aid agencies, national governments, and non-profit organizations, little
sustained international attention has been devoted to the purposes or goals of universal
education. What is universal primary and secondary education intended to accomplish?
This book offers views from Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America
on the purposes of universal education while considering diverse cultures, religions,
and professions. It is the first book in which renowned authors from around the
world have proposed, considered, and debated goals of basic and secondary education,
engaging in a constructive dialogue on one of the most pressing issues facing education
today.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1. Goals of Universal and Basic Secondary Education
Joel E. Cohen. Educational Goals for Tomorrow's Society
2. Education for All, But for What? Kai-ming Cheng 3. Goals of Universal
Primary and Secondary Education in the 21st Century: Reviving the Spirit of Socrates.
Kishore Mahbubani 4. What Will Be the Near-Future Goals of Education?
William K. Cummings. Educational Priorities in Poor Countries
5. Quality Education: The Work of Optimists Beryl Levinger 6. Achieving
Education of High Quality in Islamiyya Schools of Nigeria Mallam Bala Ahmed
7. Nurturing Learning Ability: The Goals of Universal Primary and Secondary Education
Camer Vellani 8. Quality, the Heart of Equity Vimala Ramachandran.
Empowering Children through Art and Science 9. The dia
Program: The Development of Intelligence through Art Claudia Madrazo 10.
Educational Goals: Art, Science, Love, and the Importance of Binocular Vision
Joel E. Cohen. The Special Role of Skepticism as Universal Educational
Goal 11. What Does "Universal" Education Mean? James Carroll
12. Teaching Tolerance and Open-Minded Approaches to Understanding Sacred Texts
Mohamed Charfi and Hamadi Redissi 13. Educating All the People for Democratic
Governance: A U.S. Perspective Deborah Meier. Educating Global Citizens
14. Educating for Global Competency Fernando Reimers 15. Education and
the Globalization Paradigm Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco. Perspectives
on Assessment and Educational Goals 16. Evaluating Basic and Secondary
Education Ana Carolina Letichevsky 17. For What Should Schools Be Held
Accountable? Richard Rothstein and Rebecca Jacobsen Defining Educational
Quality as a Basis for Educational Policy 18. Quality Education: A UNESCO
Perspective Mary Joy Pigozzi 19. Quality Education - What Is It and Who
Decides? Briefing Paper for a Policy Maker George M. Ingram. 20. The Challenge
of Defining a Quality Universal Education: Mapping a Common Core Laura Hersh Salganik
and Stephen J. Provasnik
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Joel E. Cohen is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller
University, New York. He heads the Laboratory of Populations at the Rockefeller
and Columbia Universities. At Columbia University, New York, he is Professor of
Populations in the Earth Institute, with appointments in the Departments of International
and Public Affairs; Earth and Environmental Sciences; and Ecology, Evolution, and
Environmental Biology.
Martin B. Malin is the Executive Director of the Managing the Atom Project at the
Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. He is a former Program Director
at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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