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Nordtveit, Bjorn H. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
This paper analyzes China's new approaches of education aid to Africa through a case study of Cameroon. China's cooperation has been characterized by different discourses and different historic relationships with recipient countries than those of traditional donors. Sino-African policies have gone through different stages, each connected to wider…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Construction, Scholarships, Training
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Robinson-Pant, Anna – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
Literacy policy and programming in developing countries continues to be influenced by the assumption that without literacy, an adult is unable to function on an equal basis in society and that an individual can be easily categorised as either literate or illiterate. Although this has led to prioritisation of primary schooling over adult literacy…
Descriptors: Donors, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
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Nordtveit, Bjorn Harald – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This article examines Western and Chinese discourses of education, sustainable growth and development. Education is increasingly considered as a means to fuel economic growth, especially since the 1980s, when conservative economic values became predominant in Western development thought. Despite a discourse on sustainability favouring ecologically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Social Systems, Free Enterprise System
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Akoojee, Salim; Nkomo, Mokubung – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
Access to higher education is a key challenge of the 21st century state. The link between higher education and personal and socio-economic development has intensified the need for ensuring that greater numbers of citizens have expanded access to and have been provided with quality higher education. The article seeks to explore how initiatives for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Higher Education, Sustainable Development