Worldwide challenges and crises in education systems

10 pagesThe fundamental role of education is universally stressed. But education systems everywhere are undergoing crisis. This article outlines five major challenges which education systems must face today. It goes on to identify 11 major crisis factors which have emerged since the qualitative expansion of education in the 1960s. Having thus questioned many dominant ideas about education, the article goes on to pinpoint five key education questions which will have to emerge, even if at present they are still tabo