Education, Learning and the Transformation of Development (Rethinking Development)

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Synopsis
Whilst education has been widely recognised as a key tool for development, this has tended to be limited to the incremental changes that education can bring about within a given development paradigm, as opposed to its role in challenging dominant conceptions and practices of development and creating alternatives. Through a collection of insightful and provocative chapters, this book will examine the role of learning in shaping new discourses and practices of development. By drawing on contributions from activists, researchers, education and development practitioners from around the world, this book situates learning within the wider political and cultural economies of development. It critically explores if and how learning can shape processes of societal transformation, and consequently a new language and practice of development. This includes offering critical accounts of popular, informal and non-formal learning processes, as well as the contribution of indigenous knowledges, in providing spaces for the co-production of knowledge, thinking and action on development, and in terms of shaping the ways in which citizens engage with and create new understandings of ‘development’ itself. This book makes an important and original contribution by reframing educational practices and processes in relation to broader global struggles for justice, voice and development in a rapidly changing development landscape.
Copyright:
2016

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Publisher Quality
Book Size:
188 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317358602
Related ISBNs:
9781138952546, 9781138952553, 9781315667607
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Amy Skinner, Matt Baillie Smith, Eleanor Brown and Tobias Troll
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Amy Skinner
Edited by:
Matt Baillie Smith
Edited by:
Eleanor Brown
Edited by:
Tobias Troll

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