Examining the multifaceted dimensions of education governance
Viewpoints in the volume "Renewing the social contract for education" address this conversation from 5 entry-points:
Part I: Reorienting Educational Purpose
At the heart of a new social contract for education is a shared sense of education’s purpose. Think-pieces in this section take positions on ways that educational purpose can be reoriented away from narrow market-based assumptions towards shared purposes of wellbeing.
Part II: Regulating Diverse Educational Actors, Interests, and Motivations
In many contexts, the range of public, private, and other non-state actors involved in the design, delivery, and monitoring of education has grown in scope and complexity. Think-pieces in this section consider what regulatory, normative, and legal considerations are needed to coordinate diverging motivations towards education as a common good.
Part III: Reconceptualizing Educational Leadership and Participation
Crumbling trust in authority, leadership, and legitimacy has frayed every modern social contract. Think-pieces in this section describe ways that new models of leadership can be imagined and cultivated to forge a new social contract for education.
Part IV: Steering the Evolving Knowledge Commons
Knowledge and learning play vital roles in shaping the future of humanity and the planet, yet it has been prone to harmful biases, enclosures, and divisions. Think pieces in this section consider how a new social contract for education can address power asymmetries in the global knowledge commons while strengthening capabilities to generate and apply knowledge through education.
Part V: Transforming the Future
A growing number of perspectives and tools can help education stakeholder develop foresight literacy to anticipate the impacts of emerging trends and steer their impacts on education. Papers in this section consider the role of futures thinking, scenarios, and a diversity of knowledge sources in reimagining and building new futures of education














