Learner-Centred Education in International Perspective : Whose Pedagogy for Whose Development? (Paperback)

1. Introduction Part I: Learner-centred Education as a GlobalPhenomenon 2. Learner-centred Education: Definitions and Provenance3. Three Justificatory Narratives: Cognition, Emancipation and Preparation 4. Contexts for Learner-centred Education: Global, National and Local Part II: Learner-centred Education in Lower and Middle-income Countries5. Learner-centred Education as a Promising but Problematic Policy in the Global South 6. The Gambia: The Intersection of the Global and the Local in a Small Developing Country 7. Moving Towards Learner-centred Education: China’s Multiple Paradoxes 8. Russia - Shifting and Resilient Narratives on the ‘Educated Person’9. South Africa’s Emancipatory Policy Discourses and Classroom Realities 10. Mobile Students and New Learner-centred Pedagogies Part III: Lessons and Resolutions 11. Ten Key Lessons from Theory, Evidence and Cases 12. Towards a Contextualised Learner-centred Pedagogical Nexus