Development Education in Policy and Practice [Hardcover]

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.Foreword: Global Learning in Europe: Looking Back and Moving Forward'; Helmuth Hartmeyer 1. Introduction: Transformative Learning in the Age of Neo-liberalism; Stephen McCloskey PART I: SOFT VERSUS CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION 2. Soft versus Critical Global Citizenship 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 Deglobalisatl#5