This volume brings together leading research to consider the role of education in creating more equitable societies. Adopting an international and comparative perspective, it explores the power of education to challenge cycles of disadvantage and create different futures.

Stephen Carney is an Associate Professor in Comparative Education at Roskilde University in Denmark. His research focuses on global educational reform and has involved extensive ethnographic work in Denmark, England, Nepal and China. Since 2016 he has been President of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE).
Michele Schweisfurth is Professor of Comparative and International Education and
Director, Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include education in developing and transitional countries, learner-centred pedagogy in an international perspective and democratic education. She is a former Chair of the British Association for International and Comparative Education.