Professional Development: Education for All as praxis

<p>This edited collection presents several research projects which examine issues concerning professional development professional learning and the ‘Education for All’ (EfA) ethos. The overall aim of the book is threefold: firstly to explore the <i>consequences </i>for the education profession of EfA and how professional development and professional learning may be made manifest as part of an EfA practice. Secondly to examine how EfA practices intersect with theoretical notions of EfA. Finally to explore how this intersection of theory and practice is rooted in different (Anglo-American Continental and Northern European) traditions and contexts and their implications for professional development and learning in education. </p><p>Underpinning these three foci is a key principle of education as a human right in terms of participation information and capacity building regardless of people’s ethnic cultural and religious backgrounds and/or physical and intellectual capacities. This book illustrates the complex conditions created in the nexus of social justice EfA and professional development. The contributions highlight the educative nature of <i>multi-relationships</i>. In so doing tensions opportunities for learning and the power relationships associated with professional development emerge providing a resource for learning about good educational practice authentic social justice practice and genuine professional learning. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Professional Development in Education. </i></p>