Education & Development

Through a series of case studies, this book explores the question of whether Western educational discourse – still the dominant discourse in many countries in the global South – benefits the majority of pupils and helps promote sustainable development in these countries, or whether pedagogies rooted..

An invaluable introduction to the range of conceptual frameworks and innovative research methods that address issues of gender education and development...

This handbook illuminates the most important concepts, findings and theories from EE research, critically examining its progression, current debates, what is still missing from the research agenda, and where that agenda might be headed. _x005F_x000D_ Published for the American Educational Research A..

This handbook illuminates the most important concepts, findings and theories from EE research, critically examining its progression, current debates, what is still missing from the research agenda, and where that agenda might be headed. _x000D_ Published for the American Educational Research Associa..

Originally published in 1988. This book outlines how Unesco's literacy program has evolved, and by discussing how idealistic aims and intentions have been given shape and direction by more immediate political and bureaucratic concerns provides a critique, in miniature, of the post-war history of the..

Explores debates around learner-centred education (or child-centred education) as a strategy for developing teachers’ classroom practice and asks whether a ‘Western’ construct is appropriate for application in all societies and classrooms...

The book highlights education’s complex, contested and often, inconsistent role in development and the social construction of poverty and calls for a critical reappraisal of the notion of ‘education’ if it is to contribute to development as freedom for nomadic groups...

The book highlights education’s complex, contested and often, inconsistent role in development and the social construction of poverty and calls for a critical reappraisal of the notion of ‘education’ if it is to contribute to development as freedom for nomadic groups...

This book addresses the fact that the issues of non-Indigenous cultures – other than Western cultures – have not yet been considered in Indigenous education. It argues that this omission is due to the Cartesian subject-object dualism that is responsible for the development of Western superiority and..

Applying postcolonial theory as a framework of analysis, this volume offers critiques of notions of development, progress, humanism, culture, representation, and identity, examining the implications of these critiques for pedagogical theory and educational practice...

The unprecedented human mobility the world is now experiencing poses new and unparalleled challenges regarding the provision of social and educational services throughout the global South. This volume examines the role played by schooling in immigrant incorporation or exclusion, using case studies o..

This book brings together analytic approaches from childhood studies, sociology, cultural studies and development studies to illustrate the different ways in which the concept of the ‘poor child’ is constructed and mobilised through development policy agendas in different national contexts...