Author(s): Douglas Bourn (Editor), Vanessa Andreotti (Contributor), Barbara Asbrand (Contributor), David Hicks (Contributor), Anna Luise Laycock (Contributor), Alison Leonard (Contributor), Annette Scheunpflug (Contributor), Gillian Temple (Contributor)
Publisher: Institute of Education
Publication Date: 1 Jun. 2008
Language: English
Print length: 127 pages
ISBN-10: 0854738037
ISBN-13: 9780854738038
Book Description
This insightful and timely book reflects a range of views, opinions and perspectives on the subject of development education and on related themes of global education, global learning and global citizenship. Contributions are based in an international context, with contributors from the UK, Europe and South America, and a particular focus on Germany and Brazil. The book aims to stimulate debate and dialogue on development education, involving academics, policy-makers and practitioners, to identify issues and themes for research and pose questions for future practice.
Editorial Reviews
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…a useful contribution to the field and offers opportunities to reflect on contemporary practice. The spaces between the positions elaborated by its contributors will provide fertile ground in which readers can grow their own solutions to difficult problems. — Dr Roland Tormey ― Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review
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As a field of research and scholarship ‘development education’ has rightly extended beyond geography, drawing from a bewildering array of perspectives from world studies, to global education and citizenship and more recently futures education. This book picks a way through this scene in a manner that is both critical and productive. — David Lambert, Chief Executive ― Geographical Association
About the Author
Douglas Bourn is Director of the Development Education Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London. He was previously Director of the Development Education Research Centre (DEA). He is Chair of the UNESCO UK Committee on Education for Sustainable Development.
Vanessa Andreotti is a senior lecturer at the School of Maori, Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She is also a Research Fellow at the Development Education Research Network at the National University of Ireland in Galway, and the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests include postcolonial theory and global citizenship education.
Barbara Asbrand is Professor of Education at Göttingen University and was previously research fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Her research is focused on global learning, quality education and evaluation and educational anthropology.
David Hicks is Professor in the School of Education, Bath Spa University and author of a number of publications on global and futures education.
Anna Luise Laycock is Learning Co-ordinator for Oxfam Education and Youth. She holds an MSc in Global Ethics, specialising in global citizenship, and has worked in the education and fair trade sectors.
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