This free course, Global perspectives on primary education, provides an introduction to comparative education studies and will compare and contrast primary schooling around the world. You will look into classrooms and hear from teachers, teacher educators and policy makers from a range of education settings and countries. You will also learn about United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the agenda for free, universal, quality education.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
know the basics about the field of comparative and international education studies
understand the purposes of international goals for quality education
develop skills to compare and contrast education policies and practices.
This course was wonderfully interesting for me, and really exposed me to different cultures surrounding teaching and education. The video on PISA was very eye-opening, and made me aware of subtle gender performance differences that I would of otherwise overlooked. Very interesting course, and goes into some lovely detail. Would particulary recommend for leaders in primary education!