Development Education in Policy and Practice [electronic resource] /
McCloskey, Stephen.author.
McCloskey, Stephen,editor.
Development education is a radical form of learning that addresses the structural causes of poverty and injustice in the global North and South. This volume debates development education practice and the policy environment in which it is delivered. It affirmatively points to the transformative power of education as a means toward social change.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Notes on Authors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Transformative Learning in the Age of Neoliberalism; Part I: Soft versus Critical Development Education; 2 Soft versus Critical Global Citizenship Education; 3 Learning to Read the World? Educating for ''Active (Global) Citizenship'' in the Formal Curriculum; 4 Typologies of Development Education: From Learning About Development to Critical Global Pedagogy; 5 Critical Thinking and Development Education: How Do We Develop Meta-Cognitive Capacities?
Part II: Development Education Sectors6 Young People and Development: The Role of Global Youth Work in Engagement and Learning; 7 Moving Beyond Boundaries: Development Education in Initial Teacher Education; 8 Strengthening Development Education Practice in the Higher Education Sector: Re-imagining Research; Part III: Development Education and Sustainable Development; 9 Striking a Faustian Bargain? Development Education, Education for Sustainable Development and the Economic Growth Agenda; 10 Development Education and Climate Change
Part IV: New Development Paradigms: Lessons for Development Education11 Groping towards a New Future: Education for Paradigm Change; 12 New Paradigms for Social Transformation in Latin America; 13 Political Society and Subaltern Social Movements (SSM) in India: Implications for Development/Global Education; 14 The Deglobalisation Paradigm: A Critical Discourse on Alternatives; Part V: Development Education's Shifting Policy Landscape; 15 Development Education in a European Context; 16 Beyond the MDGs: Toward a New Development Framework
17 Conclusion: Whither Development Education in a Shifting Policy Landscape?Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Development education is a radical form of learning that addresses the structural causes of poverty and injustice in the global North and South. This volume debates development education practice and the policy environment in which it is delivered. It affirmatively points to the transformative power of education as a means toward social change.
Economic development.
Economic policy.
Political communication.
Education.
Public administration.
Political science.
Development Studies.
Development Policy.
Political Communication.
Education, general.
Public Administration.
Political Science.