Abstract
The renewed global commitment envisaged in the Education 2030 agenda represents an opportunity to rethink educational governance substantially in order to address the challenges coming from the changing education scenario and to implement more effective and equitable education policies. In the face of growing economic inequalities and of disruptive technological changes, it is necessary to reaffirm a humanistic approach to education while re-building an innovative sense of the community. Considering education as a common good implies the design and implementation of forms of cooperation more relevant to the diversity of contexts with a view to developing, at both a national and a global level, new social structures based on the values of freedom and dignity of all people.
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Ed tech could increase inequality, experts warn: https://www.devex.com/news/ed-tech-could-increase-inequality-experts-warn-94563.
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For more details regarding UNESCO’s humanism, see: Elfert (2015).
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The Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education are available at the following link: https://www.abidjanprinciples.org/.
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European Parliament resolution of 13 November 2018 on EU development assistance in the field of education http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2018-0441+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN.
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Maren Elfert. Rethinking Education: Towards a Global Common Good? UNESCO’s New Humanistic Manifesto? 23 December 2015. NORRAG Blog. Available at this link: https://www.norrag.org/rethinking-education-towards-a-global-common-good-unescos-new-humanistic-manifesto/.
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Locatelli, R. (2019). Conclusion. In: Reframing Education as a Public and Common Good. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24801-7_8
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