Explores debates around learner-centred education (or child-centred education) as a strategy for developing teachers' classroom practice and asks whether a 'Western' construct is appropriate for application in all societies and classrooms.

Michele Schweisfurth is Chair in Comparative and International Education at the School of Education, University of Glasgow. She is also the editor of the journal Comparative Education.

1. Introduction Part I: Learner-centred Education as a Global Phenomenon 2. Learner-centred Education: Definitions and Provenance 3. Three Justificatory Narratives: Cognition, Emancipation and Preparation 4. Contexts for Learner-centred Education: Global, National and Local Part II: Learner-centred Education in Lower and Middle-income Countries 5. Learner-centred Education as a Promising but Problematic Policy in the Global South 6. The Gambia: The Intersection of the Global and the Local in a Small Developing Country 7. Moving Towards Learner-centred Education: China's Multiple Paradoxes 8. Russia - Shifting and Resilient Narratives on the 'Educated Person' 9. South Africa's Emancipatory Policy Discourses and Classroom Realities 10. Mobile Students and New Learner-centred Pedagogies Part III: Lessons and Resolutions 11. Ten Key Lessons from Theory, Evidence and Cases 12. Towards a Contextualised Learner-centred Pedagogical Nexus