Development Education in Policy and Practice

by McCloskey, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781137324658
• ISBN10: 1137324651
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-04-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Development education is a radical form of learning that addresses the structural causes of poverty, inequality and injustice in the global North and South. It equips learners with the skills, values, attitudes and understanding needed to take effective action toward social change. This comprehensive collection rigorously debates development education practice in the formal and informal education sectors and the policy environment in which it is delivered. It affirmatively points to the transformative power of education to engage learners in actions that tackle the underlying factors that sustain poverty. With neoliberalism in crisis and poverty enveloping the global North, the book argues that development education has an important role to play in debating alternative paradigms of development informed by social need and sustainability. The global cast of authors with extensive experience of the sector provide an indispensable guide to a burgeoning area of education.

Author Biography

Stephen McCloskey is Director of the Centre for Global Education, a non-governmental development organisation based in Belfast, UK. He is editor of Policy and Practice, a peer reviewed, online development education journal funded by Irish Aid. He is engaged in activism on Cuba and Palestine and has written extensively on development issues and development education.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Transformative Learning in the Age of Neo-liberalism; Stephen McCloskey
PART I: SOFT VERSUS CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION
2. Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices in Development Education; Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti
3. Learning to Read the World? Educating for 'Active (Global) Citizenship' in the Formal Curriculum; Audrey Bryan
4. Typologies of Development Education: From Learning About Development to Critical Global Pedagogy; Douglas Bourn
5. Critical thinking and Development Education: How do we develop meta-cognitive capacities?; Roland Tormey
PART II: DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION SECTORS
6. Young People and Development: The Role of Global Youth Work in Engagement and Learning; Paul Adams
7. Moving Beyond Boundaries: Development Education in Initial Teacher Education; Fionnuala Waldron
8. Strengthening Development Education Practice in the Higher Education Sector: Reimagining research; Su-ming Khoo
PART III: DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
9. Striking A Faustian Bargain? Development Education, Education for Sustainable Development and the Economic Growth Agenda; David Selby and Fumiyo Kagawa
10. Development Education and Climate Change; Glenn Strachan
Part IV: NEW DEVELOPMENT PARADIGMS: LESSONS FOR DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION
11. Groping Towards a New Future: Educating for Paradigm Change; Peadar Kirby
12. New Paradigms for Social Transformation in Latin America; Ronaldo Munck
13. Political Society and Subaltern Social Movements (SSM) in India: Implications for Development/Global Education; Dip Kapoor
14. The Deglobalisation Paradigm: A Critical Discourse on Alternatives; Dorothy Grace Guerrero
PART V: DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION'S SHIFTING POLICY LANDSCAPE
15. Development Education in a European Context; Gerard McCann
16. Beyond the MDGs: Toward a new Development Framework; Mwangi Waituru
17. Conclusion: Whither Development Education in a Shifting Policy Landscape?; Stephen McCloskey