Futures of Education UNESCO 7, place de Fontenoy 75352 Paris France futuresofeducation@unesco.org en.unesco.org/futuresofeducation @UNESCO Background paper for the Futures of Education initiative Education futures: conservation and change by Patrick Howard 1 , Michael Corbett 2 , Andrea Burke-Saulnier 3 and David Young 4 1 Cape Breton University, 2 Acadia University, 3 Université Sainte-Anne, 4 St. Francis Xavier University Nova Scotia, Canada August 2020 This paper was commissioned by UNESCO as background information to assist in drafting the Futures of Education report to be published in 2021. It has not been edited by UNESCO. The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and should not be attributed to UNESCO. This paper can be cited with the following reference: Howard, P., Corbett, M., Burke-Saulnier, A. and Young, D. 2020. Education futures: conservation and change. Paper commissioned for the UNESCO Futures of Education report (forthcoming, 2021).