Book Launch – Reforming Education and Challenging Inequalities in Southern Contexts: Research and Policy in International Development. A tribute to Christopher Colclough

Online book launch event, organised by the REAL Centre: 1-2:30pm Tuesday 11 May. Sign up here.

Join us for a book launch event to celebrate the work of the late Christopher Colclough, who, as a leading figure in education and international development, played a key role in the global fight for education for all children. At the launch, the book editors will provide an overview of the book. Authors of the chapters, all of whom knew Christopher and his inspirational work well, will be present to answer questions from the audience.
You can watch short videos of key messages from each Chapter and how this work relates to that of Christopher Colclough (these will not be shown at the event). Come prepared with your questions or email in advance to: REALCentre@educ.cam.ac.uk, indicating which chapter the question relates to.

Book release by Routledge: 25 March 2021 (e-Book £33.29). More information here. A 20% discount on the book and e-book will be available to those attending the launch.

Chapters 1, 6, 7 and 12 are available open access here. See also full Chapter and author list below.

Zoom details will be sent out via email to registered participants prior to the event. If you have any questions about this event, please contact realcentre@educ.cam.ac.uk

About the book:

This book offers in-depth analyses of how education interacts with social inequality in Southern contexts. Drawing on a range of disciplinary frameworks, it presents new analyses of existing knowledge and new empirical data which define the challenges and possibilities of successful educational reform.

The book critically engages with international evidence of educational access, retention and outcomes, offering new understandings of how social inequalities currently facilitate, mediate or restrict educational opportunities. It exposes the continuing influence of wealth and regional inequalities and caste and gendered social structures.

Researchers in Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Pakistan and Uganda highlight how the aspirations of families living in poverty remain unfilled by poor-quality education and low economic opportunities and how schools and teachers currently address issues of gender, disability and diversity. The book highlights a range of new priorities for research and identifies some necessary strategies for education reform, policy approaches and school practice, if educational equality for all children is to be achieved.

The book will be of great interest to researchers, scholars, educational practitioners and policy-makers in the fields of economics, politics and sociology of education, international education, poverty research and international development.